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Originally Posted by Shardphoenix
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Originally Posted by revenant2
While we're waiting to sort out our player situation, I thought it would be interesting to count how many units I had at turn 20, and it was 1,137 unead. I had a pretty good start with 26 provinces at this time and was spending all available gold to building temples and forts.
I did lose several hundred troops to Patala and Atlantis on turn 20, so under perfect circumstances I might have had around 1,500, but I don't think I could have improved this very much -- certainly not anywhere near 10K.
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You didn`t take a combat pretender that can take provinces by himself. You didn`t overtax at 200%, didn`t hire indie priests and didn`t reanimate with them.
Nad all of this adds up |
That's incorrect. All my provinces are taxed at 200% at the beginning -- not that it made that much of a difference because population dies so quickly.
There's not enough money to recruit priests in large quantities in the beginning -- at least not without sacrificing temples and fortresses. Even then, an H1 priest can only reanimate 10 soulless per turn and he can only do that while there are corpses on the ground, which quickly decay into nothing.
Assuming you did manage to recruit 10 priests in turn 1 and had unlimited corpses, you'd reanimate 100 undead per turn. After 20 turns you'd have 2,000 soulless. Of course, in reality you wouldn't have anywhere near that amount.
I'm not sure how a combat pretender would help very much unless you think he could help generate extra income, which he would have -- by a little bit, but certainly not enough to recruit an army of priests. By the time you did, there wouldn't be very many corpses left for you to reanimate.
I'm not trying to completely shoot you down here, but I just don't see how this would be possible. The only way I could see this method being half-way successful is if you completely focused on nothing but priests and then moved them together in a big army to reanimating after pillaging provinces. Even then, I don't think you could generate 10K armies by turn 20 and you'd totally gimp yourself since Soulless kinda suck. They are basically big bags of meat that you put on the front lines to soak up damage.
One other thing: I don't think a combat pretender on a large map as Ermor is a very optimal. The main weakness of Ermor (besides being ganged up on) is a lack of magical diversity in the end game, and the best way to mitigate this is via a scrawny rainbow pretender.