Pythium: newbish Vestals question

[licker]

Earth4 is fine and all, but reinvig1 is pretty much useless, oh boy, 1 whole fatigue point back per turn You don't need earth4 for fribolgs do you? Rainbow blessing is interesting if you are making a rainbow mage, but unless your sacred troops are going to be used in quantity its still probably a waste from just taking lvl3 in the same paths (for searching lvl4 only gets you ~5% more sites, and some of them arn't that great anyway) and boosting your scales or dominion.

Playing with high blessings and lots of sacred troops is fun though, competative... I dunno, SP its fine, MP, I'm not sure there's been enough data to really show.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by licker:
[QB] Earth4 is fine and all, but reinvig1 is pretty much useless, oh boy, 1 whole fatigue point back per turn

Check again. Earth 4 is reinvigoration 2.

[fahdiz]

Originally posted by licker:
Playing with high blessings and lots of sacred troops is fun though, competative... I dunno, SP its fine, MP, I'm not sure there's been enough data to really show.

Yes, I was mostly just asking regarding SP, since I don't dare try MP yet with my limited knowledge of the game. I guess I should have specified that.

I agree that high blessings are really fun, and it's a ball trying out new things - in fact, I have yet to find anything about this game that I *don't* find fun.

Thanks again.

[Pocus]

even though water 9 is perhaps the best blessing for units with a good defence stat as Vestals, you can emphasize on some of (standard) Pythium strength, Air :

air 9 + air ward > a nice protection for a vestal based army with 2-3 archtheurgs casting wrathful skies.

fire 9 + mass flying, with a core of legionaires as bodyguards: flying vestals attacking with flamming weapon the rear (generally flyer manage to hit the rear while grounded hit the flanks of a large army). In essence they have first strike with a powerful flaming spear.

[fahdiz]

Originally posted by Pocus:
fire 9 + mass flying, with a core of legionaires as bodyguards: flying vestals attacking with flamming weapon the rear (generally flyer manage to hit the rear while grounded hit the flanks of a large army). In essence they have first strike with a powerful flaming spear.

Very interesting...and a very cool suggestion. I don't think I can research high enough in the demo to get mass flying (or can I?) but it's something I'll have to try out as soon as my copy of the game arrives.

Thank you, Pocus.