Jotunheim:Utgard AAR

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Well, I like the AAR and all, but it's a tad difficult to comment on it much when you've admitted that, a long time ago, you hit turn 18, and by now, are probably on turn 180...and your AAR is lagging behind at turn 9. That kinda makes it ancient history, y'know? All in all, I'd say you're doing pretty well.

I stopped at turn 18, which was when I got the idea to write the AAR. I have not gone further because I wanted the feedback from the forum before I went ahead. So far, though, the comments have been all about what I did before turn 1 and nothing about what's been done afterwards. Perhaps I should have expected this, since so many people appear to focus strongly on optimizing the pretender design, and much less so on how the pretender is actually used afterwards. In military terms, more on strategy and less on tactics. BTW, real military officers are taught tactics first, then strategy. It's a bottom-up technique of building from the basics. As Bayushi Tasogare noted, strategy derived from tactics. In this case, pretender design based on combat usage.

It's not all that hard to communion-boost Astral mages to a level where potting even an Astral 5 or 6 isn't an even shot for a Theurg or an Astrologer, and in most cases, a 50/50 shot at potting somebody's god and perhaps putting a major kink in his plans is worth it

Thank you for pointing out what I'd been overlooking: communion. If this is so easy to do, and so dangerous, why would anyone ever take Astral? What's the counter (since Dom seems to have a counter-strategy to everything)?