uhm,,playing C'tis ?!?

I prefer Miasma to Base C'tis for the most part. Especially the mages. What exactly are you looking for advise? How to effectively play against who?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Zen:
I prefer Miasma to Base C'tis for the most part. Especially the mages. What exactly are you looking for advise? How to effectively play against who?

Yeah, Miasma is a little limiting, since any unit that is not undead, lifeless, or cold-blooded will die horribly of nasty diseases. Maybe you can cast Twiceborn on your indy mages, so when they bite it they'll come back as Wight Mages or Lichcraft(how DOES that spell work?) and be immune. Not to mention no longer require upkeep.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Maybe you can cast Twiceborn on your indy mages, so when they bite it they'll come back as Wight Mages or Lichcraft(how DOES that spell work?) and be immune.

Lichcraft summons an undead, death 4 mage.

[Taqwus]

Undead, /immortal/ death-4 demilich mage. It lacks the ghost-summoning ability and innate equipment of the Wraith Lord, however; different summons for different purposes.

[Evil Dave]

Originally posted by Zen:
What exactly are you looking for advise?

Two things: how best to expand the dominion, and how to deal with its effects on indie specialists.

To make good use of Miasma, it needs to spread, which means a high dominion score. There are two ways of getting that: spend points when designing a pretender, or build temples. I've done fairly well by starting with dominion 9, but I'm not sure the reduced scales and magic are worth the cost.

OTOH, since the dominion does give a (slight) income bonus, it seems that building lots of temples might not be so bad. But I haven't done well starting with, say, dominion 7 and building from there. So that's the first question: how much dominion to start with?

The second question is what to do with indie troops and specialists? Miasma slowly grinds them down, so they become much less cost effective than normal. Think sages are still useful, but I'm less sure about archers (for example), which I usually recruit for C'tis.

[Zurai]

If you want to use indies as Miasma C'tis, make a beeline for Gift of Health. That'll keep the disease from killing 99% of your units.

[Reanimator]

Because of this thread I just started playing C'tis. Thanks for the tips, made crushing the AI easy as pie.