Pretender Balance Mod

[Blitz]

I had kind of given up figuring out how to balance humanoids with titans. But I had a few ideas, which might make them more appealing.

- Lower the cost of all humanoid pretenders to 0. The cost of raising dominion is already prohibitive. When you consider that making an 8-path rainbow Ghost King costs only 80 points more than a humanoid, you would have to be a complete moron to go with the humanoid. The Ghost King comes with the full Vampire Queen list of goodies (less immortality and regeneration), comes with a level of death magic, is obviously a first-class supercombatant, and can do anything a humanoid can do.

For example:

Ghost King - level 2 in every path, no blood, dominion 4 - 321 points
Frost Father - level 2 in every path, no blood, dominion 4 - 261 points

Even by using the humanoid in the manner most suited to the chassis, the difference is negligible. The GK's extra toys are indisputably worth 60 points. Any deviation from the basic rainbow template, be it higher dominion or fewer paths will only decrease the gap.

Now let's look at a "free" Frost Father...

Ghost King - level 2 in every path, no blood, dominion 4 - 321 points
Frost Father - level 2 in every path, no blood, dominion 4 - 206 points

Much more reasonable. The Frost Father is going to have lots of points left over for castles and scales. I would imagine humans would have a better idea how to rule an empire than a ghost anyways, so having excellent scales would be a fitting role for a human. Losing the SC power of a pretender god, but gaining a rainbow mage and very fortuitous scales might tempt some people to go the humanoid route.

Just make them all free, like the Oracle and Manticore and Nataraja mkay?