How to play well C'tis ?

[Molog]

The slave troopers are good warriors.

Make a priest king your profet and have him smite from the back.

[Azhur]

Take tomb-dominion, mass sauromancers, research conj 9, search lots of magic death sites, cast well of misery, mass skull staffs and finally cast 10 (cost is 10x5=50 death gems/turn) wight riders/turn with your 4D sauromancers into enemy provinces...

[ May 28, 2004, 12:58: Message edited by: Azhur ]

[Yossar]

C'tis has the best death magic in the game besides Ermor, so use it. The spell "Raise Skeletons" is your friend early on. 2 or 3 sauromancers with some bodyguards in the front to soak up arrows can take nearly any province with almost no losses by just casting that. Bane Lords with boots of flying, jade armor, and wraith swords are great raiders.

Your best infantry are elite warriros and falchoniers. Swamp guards aren't bad just to tank. Poison Slingers are decent in certain situations. The assassins are pretty good if you give them some nature gems to cast swarm. They're in trouble if they get into melee, though.

[mr.white]

Don't forget that you get terror as your starting spell...That's extremely effective for taking independent provinces fast. Just give the sauromancer(one or two tends to be enough against weaker indeps. This doesn't work well on knights) some cover with swamp guards or HI.

If your pretender is good at death magic he can join in too, right from the start

(note that this is harder the more independents there are. I've mostly used this on strength 5.)

[Saxon]

Aroglith has a powerful strategy which uses Disintegrate. I forget the details, but if you run a search, you will find some more on it.

I love Miasma against long life troops, like Ulm or Johnteim. Lift up your dominion and make your neighbors suffer. Boost a sorcerer with the thistle mace and get Gift of Health to avoid diseasing your own troops, notably sages if you get a good sage province.

The undead are the way to go. For undead archers, there is a good spell that summons a troop of undead with flaming arrows. If memory serves (I am in the office) it is a death and nature magic spell, so it is a good secondary use for the mage who casts Gift of Health. Similarly, mass protection is very useful generally, but I found it particularly useful for C’tis.

For your god, consider the undead sauromancer. Besides just being fun to have an undead lizard god, an immortal with high death magic can summon a lot of troops to trash independents or AI. If you are using Miasma and working to push your dominion, it also means the immortal can be used more offensively.

[Anglachel]

The undead are the way to go. For undead archers, there is a good spell that summons a troop of undead with flaming arrows. If memory serves (I am in the office) it is a death and nature magic spell, so it is a good secondary use for the mage who casts Gift of Health.

The spell you are referring to is called Animate Archers. It is a level 6 enchantment that requries two death and one fire to cast. It's gem cost is 5 death and it summons 10 skeleton archers that shoot banefire arrows that are armor piercing and can cause decay in troops they hit. Sauromancers have 3 death, one fire, and one random for the relatively cheap price of 180 gold and are perfectly suited for raising these archers. A 10 troop for 5 death gem ritual is a bargin just on pure numbers but add in the power of the weapon they use and you have a very powerful spell for C'tis tomb theme with sauromancers.

[ May 31, 2004, 11:27: Message edited by: Anglachel ]