Power of Themes

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Alneyan said:
Last of the Tuatha also has more expensive mages; their basic research costs 140 gold, while Man only needs 80 gold to get the same research level, and Nature 1/Air 1 does not seem so great.

I second that and Alneyan knows well how badly I am being mauled playing LoT in his game. LoT's best mages are damn expensive, but you NEED to buy the 390gp Tuatha for 2N.

The_Tauren13 said:
I like desert tombs a lot. Maybe the hefty price tag makes it a little weaker, but it's just so much fun!!!

I second this too. It's always fun to prophetize your starting priest and start hoarding Tomb Wyrms from turn 2. I'm playing them with a Fire 9 blessing in Slugfest 2 and they're great. Best of all, their lifeless, so they can swarm lifedraining SCs, but they are not mindless, so you can use them to defend in sieges and you are not vulnerable to their commanders being targeted by mind attacking spells.

Miasma gives up the Sauromancer for the Marshmaster. While I can see how the Marshmaster can be cool, the Sauromancer is incredibly useful too. Can cast terror, spam skeletons, cast banefire, and occasionally you can get a 4D one to make into a "Darkness" caster.