Best way to play C'tis Miasma?

[Graeme Dice]

FrankTrollman said:
You can't afford a Vampire Queen at all.

I just checked, and you can easily afford a vampire queen if you are willing to make small sacrifices for the extra safety she offers. Simply take O3, S3, H2, MF3, MG2, dom 8 with A2W2E3D1B2. That leaves you with 2 points left over. Of course, a much better choice for Miasma is the ghost king, since you can give him better magic paths, and still afford a dominion 10.

[RibbonBlue]

I like taking the astral wyrm Order 3 growth 3 dom 9
3 astral.

[Nappa]

Thanks for all the help.

I used the Saurlich as my pretender. Fairly strong chassi and he's immortal. I like the idea of the astral worm also.

Everyone is right however that a Domain of 6 is not enough. I ended up right next to Oceana with a starting dominion of 9 and he is crushing my dominion and I'm having trouble getting to him.

I like the early expanding with the assasins. That will help next game.

Next game should be much better.

[Huzurdaddi]

I have to say that I like base C'tis more than Miasma. While the dominion of Miasma is very nice I strongly prefer the Sauramancer over the Marshmaster. This is mostly due to the Marshmaster being over priced vs. the Sauramancer by formula. Also D3 is just so nice.

[FrankTrollman]

A note about early Assassin Expansion:

You do much better with a Skull Earring than without. Assassins should all make their own earring before leaving home.

You probably can't Assassinate an Amazon, Lizardmen, or Woodsmen province because they have a tendency to have bodyguards. If you eventually get Bottles of Living Water on these guys, you can start killing Lizard Shamans and such.

Nothing will bring your victory chance to 100%. But a Bottle of Living Water and a Skullstaff comes really close.

Mounted Comanders are the death of you. They can personally kill skeletons at more than 1/round.

-Frank

[Turin]

for mounted commanders: figure out the distance it takes him to get directly in frot of your empoisener, then kill him with sleep touch.

[Zooko]

My Empoisoner with TWO skull talismans can kill mounted commanders.