Newbie Q re: Ermor AE and income

AMF · #1 March 25th, 2006, 07:35 AM

Ok, it's newbie question time again: I am playing Ermor Ashen Empire on the Faerun map, and my Pretender is GHost King, Fire3,air2,water1,Earth3,Astral4,and Death 9. Dominion of 9. But to get to all this I scaled down dominion scores to Max turmoil, Sloth, Cold, and Death.

...I figured that I could just pillage to keep up what money needs I had. I've done that before (with a different set up) and I never had money troubles. Now, however, I am pretty much always out of money.

I clearly don't understand how the money works under Ermor AE. Help?

Thanks, from a newbie.

alarikf

What am I doing wrong? I guess t

Nerfix · #2 March 25th, 2006, 07:59 AM

Your population dies at fast rate, thus makes no money.

You're supposed to alchemize for money, or then just summon which costs gems, not money.

Daynarr · #3 March 25th, 2006, 08:15 AM

You use gems to summon mages/unholy priests and them to use corpses to summon undead armies. Ermor works quite differently then other nations. Gold is only available at the start, but later on you just use corpses/gems to make armies.

AMF · #4 March 25th, 2006, 08:16 AM

Ah, yes, I forgot about alchemy...I just find that I never really have enough money, nonetheless, to build temples etc...oh well, I just have to accept the tradeoff, eh?

Thanks!

Alarik

Saber Cherry · #5 March 25th, 2006, 08:33 AM

Fire and Earth are crucial for an Ashen pretender, and Nature is nice. I try to make Fever Fetishes (ideally, with a Hammer) and convert the rest to gold.

I'm not sure if pillaging is good, though - normally I set taxes to 200% and patrol until everyone is dead, but I haven't solved an integral or anything specific to determine which is better.

shovah · #6 March 25th, 2006, 08:54 AM

my advice is alchemize alot, set all taxes to 200% and pillage any province that hasnt been under your dominion too long

Ironhawk · #7 March 25th, 2006, 09:00 AM

As far as I understand it, the trick is to never buy living troops which have upkeep. Summon all your mages and troops via gems. Pillage all your provinces to 0 pop for thier money. Find the provs with Gold/Silver Mines and wipe out thier pop and set them to 200% taxes for the income.

Also, I noticed that you didnt mention your luck scale? I think you shoudl take Luck-3 for the money events since you are taking turmoil-3.