Surviving on an Island

[alexti]

Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:

quote:

---

Originally posted by alexti:

- call of the wild, which has already been mentioned. You have plenty of nature gems and if you have several mages cast call of the wild on the same province you have good chances to conquer it and then expand from there.

Except for one slight detail... The only recruitable mages able to cast call of the wild without empowering or equipping are the nice Pans. And they generate maenads each turn. That increase your upkeep. That you cannot get rid of as you cannot disband troops and have nowhere to expand.

It is going to take a long, long time to research enough and then hire a few Pans and then cast call of the wilds - without going bankrupt

---

Yeah, maenads may be a problem. But not in the order scale. In order+3 they never attract maenads, I'm not sure what happens in order+1/order+2, but I don't remember getting maeands either. So, this may not be a problem after all. And for research I'd rather buy Dryads (assuming positive magic scale). They are cheaper as researchers. Buying Pans is probably too expensive and can be postponed until the time you're about to cast CoW.