Golden Age Arcoscephale

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by Blitz:
I'm sure there's some obscure strategy that makes her better than Odin in the world according to Graeme. Right then, let's hear it.

Whether or not she is better than the Allfather is completely irrelevant to the question of whether she is useless or not. Will you please stop bringing up red herrings and pretending that they are valid arguments?

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Here's one suggestion:

Asynja
Air-4
Earth-3
Nature-3

Tested twice using

Theme: Midgard
Order +3
Production +3
Cold +1
Drain +2
Dominion: 5
Castle

and

Theme: Midgard
Order +3
Cold +1
Magic +1
Dominion: 5
Castle

Remarks:

(1) Cheaper than a Titan or Allfather with similar magic.

(2) Compliments Midgard's magic rather nicely. (As a matter of fact, with this pretender you can eventually achieve level 5+ in every path magic using only national mages and Construction 2-6 items - right, no empowerment, no indies, nada.)

(3) Lots of good early buffs early - Mistform, Mirror Image, Personal Regen, etc. - making full use of her potential early. I chose Earth and Nature above Water and Death because (a) regen is a must have for an early SC (b) Earth magic is a dead end for Midgard without at least 2 levels on the pretender (c) Quickness is great but you can get it on boots eventually (d) Soul Vortex is great but isn't available as soon as the other buffs.

How does this Asynja compare to a Titan with the same skills? She loses the shock resistance, but she's cheaper and come with better fighting skills. Rather positive.

How does she compare to the Allfather? Well, to make the best use of his starting magic, you'll want to buy a couple extra levels of Death, as well as a couple levels of Water to take advantage of the cheap paths. And probably reduce his air magic to 3 to get one more tick in a scale. Such an Allfather would be superior, but it comes with a 80 points deficit - and loses the air-4 blessing as well. So it depends on whether you want the stronger scales or not. If the former, this Asynja is still an impressive fighter.


With the other 2 themes you may want to buy her different magic paths.