Re: LA Pythium Hydras
Does anyone have good ideas about how to use LA Pythium?
Hydras are very nice, but no troop resists to poison, so you're stuck with hydra only armies until you have researched quite a bit.
Then, comitatenses, palatines, theurgs and the good priests are all capital only, which means you only get limitanei and the minor mages in other forts. I find that early expansion is easy (alteration 1 to give resist poison to a minor mage, bringing him to 100% Poison resist, build 4-6 hydras depending on indep strength, and you've got a force that can take all indeps without stopping). But then the hydras strategic move of 1 comes in and hampers mobility a lot. Bringing reinforcements is almost impossible unless you're having a stable front in a long war. You end up relying on a variety of weak mages who may have found one site to give them the needed gems, and a choice of armies that's very limited (milite, limitanei and solaris who are expensive due to fire resistance).
So does anyone think of a strategy for LA Pythium? I think for a small map, going all-hydras with nature/death/fire magic support might be worthwhile?
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