Why are Tarts so cheap

[Soyweiser]

It looks like feeblemind does.

[brxbrx]

Why are tarts so cheap.

lol, that's a funny name if you think about it.

Because they're ugly and being cheap is the only way to get any?
Because they prefer men spending the money for them?
Because the government is offering subsidies on flour, eggs, and whatever makes pie filling?

[Stagger Lee]

Originally Posted by Rick L

If you get a Tartarian commander, it will be irreversibly crazy and do a lot of pillaging. It is a ***** to call one and have him or her pillage your capital on the first turn. They also do other crazy things that keep you from moving them from time to time. The only solution is a slave collar, which requires blood magic ability and wipes out any magic ability they possess.

Don't summon them in your cap. By the point in the game when you can realistically set conj 9 as your next research target, you should have several labs. Pick one in a fort in a low income province. Or, if you have ready cash, pick your lowest income/population province and build a lab and a fort (not a temple). Move your high D caster(s) there and you have your tart factory.

One of the great values of tarts is their varied magic. Tartarian SCs are the ones you don't have better plans for. Don't put slave collars on them unless they are already feebleminded, but if feeblemind ... Oh well, just don't use slave collars on them.

[Finalgenesis]

Their value to me has always been diversity, As SCs they aren't strictly that much better on a cost basis then other choices (assuming EDM or later CBM on), but for diversity they have no equal. They do take a lot of investment and time though as compared to the other summon and done SCs/casters, and with the no GoR in latest CBM they aren't really worth it, and marginal at best with grail or GoH.

They'll sooner or later kill the temple and do 100+ unrest hits (uncommon, but not that uncommon, especially if you have 3+ tarts in a prov), usually a good idea to designate a wasteland or super low pop province as a holding area for tarts (if you intend to build them up), stick a lab and either a fort and/or A+N dome it (or bad things can happen to them).

[llamabeast]

The next CBM will make GoR on Tarts possible again, but at full price (20 nature gems), whereas GoR for non-undead is reduced to 5 gems IIRC.

[thejeff]

Now that I like.
GoR is cheap to play around with alternatives, but still available at high cost for Tarts.

This makes Tarts viable even without the Chalice/GoH, since you only have to pay full price (Gate + GoR) on the ones you want to use.