Who uses an All-Paths Pretender?

[Skolem]

Originally posted by Alexi:
And I'm not a very patient fellow, so I won't wait a dozen turns for my Pretender to forge my armory.
But when the only one who can produce the items is your Pretender, that's means if you lose an army, it'll be quite a while before you can get re-equipped. And that's a big risk.

You don't use only your pretender for forging. Untill midgame you use him as a sitesearcher. Believes me the amount of Gems you will have has no comparison to any other strat. After this you can forge one or two magic boost to summon Mage with the path you don't have, with the time you will have a lot of Mage with a lot of different path combos and they will allow you to equip (in the mid-late game) 2 to 3 SC fully in one turn. It will be no problem because the amount of gem your pretender gives you is really amazing.

[Pickles]

Originally posted by Skolem:

"believes me the amount of Gems you will have has no comparison to any other strat. "

except clam spamming or similar..
But is is a good income & you do not need to keep boosting your pretender for searching - or at least by the time I have readily available boosts I have better things to do

Pickles

[ August 03, 2004, 19:27: Message edited by: Pickles ]

[Lex]

i guess if you go for lots of gems (with a rainbow pretender), you're probably gonna rely mainly on summons+casters+SCs and a bit of troop backup if any? or do you still need large troop armies.

[Skolem]

Originally posted by Alexi:
i guess if you go for lots of gems (with a rainbow pretender), you're probably gonna rely mainly on summons+casters+SCs and a bit of troop backup if any? or do you still need large troop armies.

I would say it depends on the Race played, if you have good national troops you build them, if not you mostly have good mage to summon what you lack of. For exemple with caelum I build a begining army with wingless Temple guards and Mammoths to conquer Indies, and mid game I switch for Storm Guards with Spring Hawks and if I can Storm Devils. I would build much more national with Jotunheim for exemple, but this choice doesn't depend on your Pretender but rather on your national troops and their abillities to be usefull in late Game (best exemple would be Mictlan and Abyssia Blood of Human were Blood Summons are your real national troops)
Skolem

[Skolem]

Originally posted by Pickles:
except clam spamming or similar..
Pickles [/QB]

No one says you couldn't do that with your RB

[Pickles]

I also forgot to mention that its strength must depend on the gem richness chosen. Blood races are relatively better & rainbows worse on poor maps. I am not sure at what level the balance is best - I suspect it is at somewhat more thanthe default "40"

Pickles

[Thilock_Dominus]

Tried a couple of times with rainbow pretender, but it didn't fit very well for my play-style. I think to much time is wasted on upgrading the pretender's magic pathes IMO. I would use the time more effecient with my pretender.

Mostly I play with SC and when I play a magic prender I focus its magic path(es) instead.

Nothing wrong with Rainbow pretenders it just aren't my type


best regards
Thilock

[ August 03, 2004, 20:22: Message edited by: Thilock_Dominus ]