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Originally Posted by Louist
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I think another thing that works against Arco in this game is that he is the only strong astral nation. That makes him scary but it also makes getting access to his mystics probably the best prize in game. I actually had some concern that it was too good a mage to give other nations access to and that may prove to be the case.
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Mystics are definitely too valuable a prize. Astral, combined with their fantastic diversity makes Arco far too tasty a target. Priestesses, even with their perfect healing, would be a better choice. |
Priestesses were my first choice but then I got worried about, for instance, Jotun getting ahold of them or maybe another astral nation getting access to Arco's risk free mind hunts.
Well, we could always make a house rule that whoever conquers Arco (if anyone does) agrees not to recruit mystics. Or we could just view conquering Arco as being the equivalent of casting Arcane Nexus in a normal game and thus justification for a dogpile.
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I just saw the results of last turn. Ghoul's not out of the fight just yet. He rather neatly decimated my forces :P
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Admittedly, I don't have a lot of MP experience, but not even in single player have I lost so many men so quickly.
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Told you Arco was scary. And he hasn't even started yet with mind hunts, soul slay, gifts from heaven... Man may come to regret protecting Arco from the dogpile.
Also, I want to clarify something. It isn't necessarily fun to be dogpiled but sometimes that happens and you just make the best of it. Actually, thinking it over, it can be fun to fight a losing battle and make your opponents pay as high a price as possible for taking you down. I had quite a lot of fun in a recent game doing exactly that. Added bonus: the micromanagement goes down as the game goes on!
So nobody is under any obligation to make fights fair or should feel they can't play to their own best interest. There can after all be only one true god.