Jotunheim:Utgard AAR

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
The good news is that I have a W2 caster I didn't know I had. Damn. I've gone from turn 12 to 18 having water gem income, too.

Hell yes. Time to start cranking out those clams, too. That investment in Astral income will pay off bigtime later....especially when you plow that income right back into scanning every province you own with Acashic Record and stuff. Great spell on a big map like Orania, and the long game you're undoubtedly in for. Especially since you surely can acquire at least one or more Astral-3 Nornas, or simply make a Starshine Cap.

Originally posted by IKerensky:
BTW perhaps you could do like at paradox forums and make a separate thread for comments about the AAR

I like to believe that the large number of comments is a sign of how much we all love the AAR.

[ February 11, 2004, 21:47: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

[Arryn]

Originally posted by IKerensky:
Dont be too hard on you Arryn all those geants looks alike anyway, I usually took my scouts for my skratti

BTW perhaps you could do like at paradox forums and make a separate thread for comments about the AAR

The damn Skratti look like the Scout if you're being unobservant (like me) and don't notice the quarterstaff.

I could *try* to have comments in a separate thread, but I seriously doubt people would listen. The type of players that play Dom are not the kind that play HoI or EU2.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
The damn Skratti look like the Scout if you're being unobservant (like me) and don't notice the quarterstaff.

Heh. It's usually the scout I don't notice: He's a stealthy +0 notice, so I can only see him if I patrol for him anyway, and I never have any reason to build one. At $50 and 11R, for a unit which is functionally identical to the far cheaper $20/3R scout, I'm not sure what the benefit of building the Jotun scout is.

[IKerensky]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Arryn:
The damn Skratti look like the Scout if you're being unobservant (like me) and don't notice the quarterstaff.

Heh. It's usually the scout I don't notice: He's a stealthy +0 notice, so I can only see him if I patrol for him anyway, and I never have any reason to build one. At $50 and 11R, for a unit which is functionally identical to the far cheaper $20/3R scout, I'm not sure what the benefit of building the Jotun scout is.

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Blessing ?

just for the pleasure to haggle.

[Arryn]

This revelation that I have Skratti is serious enough that I've decide to redo turns 12+. I doubt it'll affect the outcome of my war with Pythium (I'll not say when the castle fell), but it changes how I would have made items and used gems after turn 12. Since no one but myself has seen what happened in turns 12-18 (since the turns haven't been written and posted yet), it won't matter to the AAR. Or not much anyway, other than my having some foreknowledge of what the Pythium pretender has in store for me.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by IKerensky:
Blessing ?

just for the pleasure to haggle.

Well, yeah, you can BLESS them, but blessing and combat isn't really a functional element of a scout anyway. Scouts tend to be engaged in behavior like "lurking in the depths of enemy territory", which precludes blessing anyway, since Jotun hardly has stealth priests, unless you make a scout your prophet, making him perma-blessed no matter what he is anyway, "being a cheapo blood hunter", where his $50/11R cost works against him and strongly favors the cheapo $20 scout (and blessing doesn't help) and "baggage train duty", where you hide and carry the gems and the soup pots for your army....once again, seeing combat is optional and not recommended.

Unless your plan involves sending your scout-prophet and a horde of scouts to attack a province?

[licker]

Well blessing or no, a Jotun scout is more capeable of taking lightly defended provinces in sneak attacks than are normal scouts...

Blessings for Jotun can do wonders for the units too, depending on what paths you have taken, though in the case of Scouts its a bit trickier to get them blessed while they are sneaking. Shroud of the battle saint would work, but probably better equipment to give them if you are serious about trying to use them as a sneak attack force.

I'm not recomending using them for that function, but if you want that function they are better than indie scouts...