I give up, you finally won me over

[Tuna-Fish]

Originally posted by Arryn:
As was very amply demonstrated to me in Zen's IRC game Last night, strategies that work quite well in SP tend to be quite bad in MP. I have a hunch that immobile pretenders falls into the Category of for-SP-only.

Feel free to disagree, since my first (and thus far only) MP game was Last night, so I still have very much to learn.

I disagree. Immobile pretenders are very good in MP too, if you know what you are going to use them for. Thee's 2 of the especially useful: Oracle and Blood Fountain.

Oracle is an astral-3, meaning quaranteed acashic record, even for nations with no astral mages themselves, also has the nice ability of being able to forge the slave matrix for use in communion for non-astrals.

Blood fountain is Blood-3, and is good enough to start a blood econ for any normally non-blood race. There's many good blood mages that can be summoned with blood magic, and hitting your enemy with devils when you are playing man can be quite a shock.

Both have great dominion and cost 0, so you can have some kickass scales with them, meaning more/better troops and faster research.