Early game slingshot w/ alchemy

[Arralen]

Originally posted by Catquiet:

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Originally posted by PDF:
However Pocus described me a "financial" Alchemist strategy : with Nature & Fire a RB can forge a boatload of Fever Fetish (give' em to Scouts) producing many Fire gems, that you can sell for cash.

Too much micro management for me, you have to keep juggling the Fever Fetishes between scouts before they die from disease.

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Use Revenants .. deck out with fetishes, set to "research", forget about them. And they don't cost you upkeep, too! Black Servants will work, too, but you won't get any additional benefit from them. But they are stealthy and wouldn't show up on a spy report (AFAIK).

[Catquiet]

Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by Catquiet:
Too much micro management for me, you have to keep juggling the Fever Fetishes between scouts before they die from disease.

Gift of Health ...

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That would help with the afflictions, but would it stop the scout from losing 1 HP per month?

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Catquiet:

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Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by Catquiet:
Too much micro management for me, you have to keep juggling the Fever Fetishes between scouts before they die from disease.

Gift of Health ...

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That would help with the afflictions, but would it stop the scout from losing 1 HP per month?

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Yes, when it cures the disease. Disease is an affliction.

EDIT: it also gives your units more HPs while in friendly dominion, so they'll Last longer if it takes a few months to get rid of the disease.

[ February 22, 2004, 18:51: Message edited by: Arryn ]

[Ed Kolis]

This whole "give disease causing item to units that can't be diseased" really sounds like an exploit to me... how can the heat of the sickness produce fire gems if there IS no sickness?

[PvK]

That's what I said. But it's also easy to circumvent in other ways - just more of a hassle to watch all your diseased scouts. I suppose if there were also a random chance of a sudden death, or if they were non-reusable, and the undead couldn't use them, then it would make more sense. It'd be nice if the gems earned automatically went to any local lab when the guy died, too, to avoid silly micromanagement moving gems all the time.

PvK

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
This whole "give disease causing item to units that can't be diseased" really sounds like an exploit to me... how can the heat of the sickness produce fire gems if there IS no sickness?

The GoH doesn't prevent the sickness. It cures it afterwards. Get sick (& get gems), get healed, get sick (& get gems), get healed. Ad infinitum.

[Pocus]

Originally posted by Ctennyson:
With Master Alchemist + Alchemist Stone, its 30 gp per Earth Gem and 45 per fire gem.

Last Ulm game I had Earth Blood Deep Well and Eternal Pyre both running, along with Fata Morgana and Riches from Beneath for huge income/resources. In my best castle, I could pop out a Knight Lord and 24 Knights a turn, not to mention at least 10 knights(the mounted ones) at every other castle, every turn, with 1000's of gold left over. Obviously thats SP, in MP no one will let you have every enchantment, so you'd need the fever fetish strategies which arent as visible.

Build Blood Stones and Fever Fetishes instead of clams, and you'll be swimming in cash.

unless it has changed from dom1, the alchemy stone dont add +50% after master alchemist doubling, but add +50% on the base cost. Thus a fire gem is worth 37 gp, not 45.
Still a good deal, but for this strategy to work, you really need the alchemist, and not necessarly the philosopher's stone.

I generaly use scouts, but black servants is also a possibility if you have a death income.

This gem factory can be further enhanced with the forge of ancients, which allow master smith to forges the fetish, at 1 nature and 1 fire. You can easily comes with +4 to +6 fetish a turn, which lead to a net increase of 200 gp a turn. You should be able to reach 5000 gp worth of fire gems if nobody see you coming.

... And then you win

But dont misunderstand me, its not an exploit for me. its a valid and circumvoluted strategy, which asks for preparation and planning, in the same way that the making of a tartarian factory is a difficult strategy to pay off. Its one of the pleasure of the game to have a set of puzzle (jigsaw) pieces, and works his way to finish it before the others kill you . As a sidenote, this is where dominions shines, in the same way that Master of Magic shined (circumvoluted combos to establish on the long term).