Alexander's ever-expanding Tome of Knowledge

[Truper]

For this one you might consider... THE VORTEX OF NO RETURN

You might want to put it as the "TOO MUCH MAGIC DOWNWARD SPIRAL"

Edit: Btw I call Truper "THE JAVA TROOPER"

[ January 13, 2004, 03:55: Message edited by: Zen ]

DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY!

This is for later games when you're massively outnumbered by undead and want a cheap and effective way of dealing with masses of them.

Use this with any Astral/Fire mages

Before Battle have your mages cast Inner Fire.

First Spell in Battle, cast Phoenix Pyre (or Phoenix Power depending on where you place your mages).

Send the mages in for close combat (or fly if you are T'ien Ch'i to the back row)

FIREWORKS!

The Phoenix Pyre will hit any type of creature, while the Inner Sun burst will fry all low hp undead (Up to Longdead Horsemen and sometimes banes) and possibly higher end, depending on their MR.

The Pyre up and are ready to die for their country again, and take out a few boneys in the process.

They can do this until they run out of fatigue then death will be final, but 2 or 3 of these guys can take out huge numbers of those pesky undead, even if they have Antimagic on them.

Try it with Sacred Troops with a high Earth Blessing, some reinvigoration items, or Relief, for fun.

Beauty of this is you can send them in close to cast up close and personal banishments (which cost 0 Fatigue) while they blow the britches off of those who come to kill them.

[ January 13, 2004, 08:24: Message edited by: Zen ]

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Zen:
DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY!

This is for later games when you're massively outnumbered by undead and want a cheap and effective way of dealing with masses of them.

Nations this is easiest and most useful for: Abysia, Marignon, Mictlan, T'ien Ch'i.

Hmmm, if this is for later games and you're Abysia, you can also use Alex's "Supercharged Abysian Warlock" routine to good effect - a Solar Brilliance will come handy in that scenario ;-)

These work well to teleport into back undead provinces, since commanders don't use food and most undead provinces don't have much supply.

[ January 13, 2004, 08:38: Message edited by: Zen ]

[Keir Maxwell]

Lots of entertaining stuff!

My favourite C'tis unit is Serpent Dancers. With a water9 blessing you can really cause havoc with these guys. Haven't tried fire9 with them yet but it could be interesting.

You can support Serpent Dancers with City Guard as Arrow catchers. City Guard may not be much good vs real troops but they have a strat move of 2, prot 14 and will do fine in the early expansion in a support role on hold and attack. Later they do better than you would think in BIG units to compensate for low morale and they do have good MR's. As they play such a light role in expansion you get alot of veterans with a decent def and they have a spear for repelling - its not their job to win the battle.

One of the things I really like about this approach is how light casulties are during expansion if you get it right. This means you get a really good ramping up of military strenght.

The other key advantage is that the cost work well together. With the Serent Dancers costing 20gps 5 res and the CG costing 10gps and 13 res its easy to build up a mixed army fast.

The Shamans are great fun with 50% quickness. If you can abuse them normally . . .

Alex will you be putting out a text/word copy of your Tome?

Cheers

Keir

[ January 15, 2004, 06:37: Message edited by: Keir Maxwell ]

[apoger]

This thread is the copy of the tome!

I intend to add a few stratagies to it every week. This game will be dead and forgotten before I run out of material.