101 uses of Death 10 pretender

[DarkTears]

IIRC Utterdark is the only 9D spell, and there is no 8 or 10 D spell. Bone Grinding, Tartarian Gate and Undead Mastery are 7. I think there is no 10th level spell in the game at all.

[licker]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Isnt there also some nasty global spells for 10d?

For anyone with cheap sacreds that they tend to use as sword fodder, that "death curse" isnt a bad add-on also.

Im not so much for maxing an single field as in doing combos. There is a playable strategy for maxing all the bad scales and taking more blessings. Not a total ultimate strategy and not easy to play but a fun one to consider. You can get all 4's and one or two 9's from it.

Hmm, I was going to make a poll about this actually, but my connection is too slow and it was too annoying

Anyway, how many people actually take high blessings for MP games? I've not really seen anyone doing it. Though there are several reasons for it... national sacred troops are poor (too expensive, whatever...), need points for other scales, etc...

I personally enjoy the blessings, but I can't see using them in a serious MP game. Perhaps for some nations, but overall... They just don't seem worth the opportunity cost.

[Gandalf Parker]

Its rather a specialized tactic. It either works really REALLY well in an MP game as a surprise, or it fails miserably and early.

But I have a number of such variations in my bag of tricks. Having a favorite nation with a favorite strategy that does well in MP games is kindof a baseline. Everyone should have that. But if everyones baseline is too average then the game is just a really long juggling for position. In a game with many people playing their middle-of-the-road strategys, an extreme strategy has a chance to shake things up.

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If you cant beat 'em, then join 'em.
If you cant beat em or join em,
then at least try to surprise them.

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Im not so much for maxing an single field as in doing combos. There is a playable strategy for maxing all the bad scales and taking more blessings. Not a total ultimate strategy and not easy to play but a fun one to consider. You can get all 4's and one or two 9's from it.

Catastrophic scales, minimal dominion (1-3), expand in front of your dominion, and just keep rolling while your ultra-powerful Pretender goes on a conquest spree and your sacred mass-blessed troops carve out a realm of glory for you?

Then you will probably want the ability to rapidly build a fortress near your ever expanding frontlines, which means the 40 point Mausoleum.

That should leave you enough points for THREE level 9 blessings and a single 4 on a Naga Chassis, or two level 9 blessings and 4 on the rest. Could be brutal.

I have got to try that one out one day - sounds fun.

[Teraswaerto]

Mictlan is the one nation that really needs to use (a) blessing(s), especially in MP. It probably can work for some others, like Niefelheim and Last of the Tuatha.

[Gandalf Parker]

[quote]Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:

That should leave you enough points for THREE level 9 blessings and a single 4 on a Naga Chassis, or two level 9 blessings and 4 on the rest. Could be brutal.

I have got to try that one out one day - sounds fun.

You laid out the strategy perfectly. ALso keep in mind the nations where some of the catastrophic scales are of no conern for them or even beneficial.

When I first tried it I expected my home capital to fall quickly under the burden of horrible events but was surprised to find that not much happened to me for quite a long time. Well, more happened but not nearly as balancingly horrible as I expected for all the gain.

[PvK]

Having 10 in one path means the combat spells also cost 1/9 the fatigue. Powerful combat spells which had very high fatigue costs can become castable every combat turn. You can also add some bonus items to get your power up even farther.

PvK