Rainbow Pretender Mod

[General Tacticus]

It may surprise some people, but not all of us send their pretender in battle. In fact, I play 40% of my games with an immobile pretender, and 40% with a rainbow site searcher/researcher who avoids combat.

That being said, I don't think I'll use Catquiet's mod. True, it's annoying (very) when a lucky Call of the Wind catches my rainbow mage (or Seeking Arrow, or whatever), but I think it is the price to pay for all my pretender can do.

In my opinion, a SC pretender is only useful on small, crowded maps. I prefer very large ones myself, so I seldom use a SC pretender.

[Unwise]

Ignorant question: What is "SC". I've seen it all over the forum, and have assumed several meanings for it (like "Summoned Creature"), but every time I think I've got it, someone uses it in a context that doesn't fit.

[PDF]

Well, in fact I also like cool Statues and frail mages, but I don't like the idea of a non-magic user mage, even if Immortal...

SC stands for "Super Combatant", a physically powerful Pretender equipped with items and spells to bash army all by himself.
Example : regenerating trampling Great Mother, teleporting Sphinx...

[General Tacticus]

Originally posted by PDF:
Well, in fact I also like cool Statues and frail mages, but I don't like the idea of a non-magic user mage, even if Immortal...

My point was that a rainbow pretender has no business being in combat in the first place; he exists for site searching, researching, ritual spells, item forging, but not to cast in combat.
Of course, you could build a rainbow Great Mother or a rainbow Dragon, and send them to battle, but they would be very expensive. A rainbow Crone, on the other hand, is affordable, but should not be found on the battlefield.

I like the cat-and-mouse game of moving your frail rainbow pretender around while avoiding fights, and it would spoil it for me to know he is immortal... For the same reason, I don't use the "all pretender heal afflictions" mod either. There are immortal pretenders, and ones that heal affliction, and they are priced according to their rarity, which is how I like it But that shouldn't stop Catquiet from distributing his mod, I'm sure other people will like it...

[ywl]

Originally posted by General Tacticus:

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Originally posted by PDF:
Well, in fact I also like cool Statues and frail mages, but I don't like the idea of a non-magic user mage, even if Immortal...

My point was that a rainbow pretender has no business being in combat in the first place; he exists for site searching, researching, ritual spells, item forging, but not to cast in combat.
Of course, you could build a rainbow Great Mother or a rainbow Dragon, and send them to battle, but they would be very expensive. A rainbow Crone, on the other hand, is affordable, but should not be found on the battlefield.

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A rainbow Naga of both of the two varieties might be possible. A 100+ hitpoints mage in combat also sounds fun. But I still haven't got the time to test it much yet.

[moodgiesanta]

Can you realistically have a rainbow Dragon? It seems you'd be very hamstrung by the prohibitive cost of new schools. Seems to me that if you take a Dragon you're pretty much stuck with the one path.

[PvK]

Depends on what you mean by realistic. In single-player, sure you can. In multi-player competetive gaming, it might be at a disadvantage compared to a cheaper rainbow pretender who builds his own non-pretender supercombattants, but having a bit of both worlds is an advantage in itself, and there is some efficiency in being able to conquer a province and then site search it, instead of taking a move to move the rainbow, without accomplishing anything else at the same time.

The immortal non-combat-casting pretender is an interesting idea, and high encumbrance is appropriate for the crone. Enc 99 seems over-much, though. I'd just give her a high encumbrance, low accuracy, immortality, and a higher base cost to pick her. When we can mod in new pretenders, I'd leave the old crone in, and add this new type of crone.

PvK