Fun with Arco Astrologers

[Boron]

Originally posted by Kel:
[Mystics can be produced anywhere, as well. Astrologers are capitol only.
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meant the astrologers , the one with astral 3

Originally posted by Kel:

pythium has a superior gem income to arco
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Only in the very early game. Don't forget that the 3 random elemental picks on the mystics will give you the ability to site search extensively.

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thats true but sometimes time wasting
depends on the magic frequenzy / research settings but if they are not too low / high :

you can get conjuration 5 with pythium quite quick . most probably you have amassed the initial astral gems and when you have researched accashic can cast 2-3 at one time with all your astral gems and hopefully find some astral gem producing sites again so that you can make 1 accashic every 2-3 turns .
and hopefully you got lucky and have meanwhile 1 arch theurg too who is able to clamforge

edit :
so if you are lucky with searching through mystics you find some nice sites early on but if you aren't and they are elemental 2 or nonelemental like the quite frequent death sites you perhaps find none while when you cast an accashic you find 2 , one lowlevel death and a lvl 2/3 elemental one e.g.

but you will find most astral gem sites so you get very good astral income earlier
on a rough estimation you find about 1/3 of the magic sites this way .
but the high level ones you never find with this and though they are rare on the other hand most of them are worth as much as ~5 lvl 1 sites

edit 2 :
but arcos national troops are more flexible like the pythium ones i think because pythiums troops are very expensive in resources
so because arcos troops are easier to massproduce it has quite an advantage because it can take far more sloth / worse admin rating castles like pythium and so gets more points .
and the 350 recruit costs for the arch theurg are heavy too

[ July 02, 2004, 16:41: Message edited by: Boron ]