Fun with Arco Astrologers

[Boron]

Originally posted by Kel:
3) You often aren't searching blindly so it's not a straight random chance. Scales can tip you off to the existence of sites, particularly death. Certain terrain is also more likely to contain certain sites, further improving your odds.

All this said, the biggest point for acashic, as opposed to physical/individual spell searching is the loss of research from individual site searchers. That's why I am intrigued to try out a rush strategy in conj. with Pythium.


- Kel [/QB]

all in all you are right i think .

in theory pythium is really good and with normal research you can get quite quick ( turn 12-15 ) at conjuration 5 but the problem is that you need time to benefit from this potential.

my main problems are : either i have a very bad economy ( by turn 10-15 you should have 1 better 2 grand theurgs + some theurgs to quick research ) . if you take a weak pretender you can get nice dominion scales but then you can accashic but there are no good summons even for the arch theurgs in the beginning and so on .

but on the other way if you make a good pretender i have such incomeproblems and since the principles / legionaires cost both 19 resources i can't take sloth and productivity would be a good idea .

so at the moment i am either a quite good accaish caster but very fragile in early game or i have such a weak economy that i can't research fast enough and so on


arco is really much more flexible i think since e.g. elephants are nice for early expansion ihmo but are not very expensive and thaumaturgy with the one kind of site find spells is a good path anyway with mind burn and soul slay as early / midpath battle spells .

so perhaps a good use of accashic is for ryhleh then but only for some of his land provinces since underwater probably voice of tiamat is more cost effective ( almost 50% of all sites for the cost of 9 water gems right ) ?