January 22nd, 2004, 03:55 PM
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Re: Caelum Starting Strategy
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Originally posted by incognito:
a) choice of pretender. I have toyed with the idea of the vamp queen, but she feels quite expensive and focuses on death/blood vs air/water. While I can add air/water, it gets expensive. What are folks thoughts - magic pretender vs combat pretender for the caelum? Which makes more sense? What paths to add if magic?
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It's usually good to take paths your national mages don't have on your pretender. It gives you more options with magic.
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Elephants seem good, but I soured on them when the second independent I attacked had a spectre lord who turned them to his side and used them to trample my archers 
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When routing mammoths and elephants will trample anything that gets in their way. So that's probably what happened. I don't think any independents can cast domination spells.
[ January 22, 2004, 16:05: Message edited by: Teraswaerto ]
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