Beginner's Guide to EA Arcoscephale

dirtywick · #1 October 17th, 2006, 01:34 AM

It's there under the "Very powerful items". It's especially pricey for Arco because you'd have to either empower a mage or forge another item to increase their paths depending on the picks you get, but it is among the best means available for a dominion kill.

Nerfix · #2 October 17th, 2006, 05:55 AM

Good guide.

Endoperez · #3 October 17th, 2006, 06:04 AM

I like the fact that you wrote the dominion-kill strategy there. There might be some people who never considered that.

Morkilus · #4 October 17th, 2006, 12:28 PM

These are very cool guides. Anyone care to do what he did for Kailasa?

(ahem)

http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Dominio...%2C_Golden_Era

Horst F. JENS · #5 October 17th, 2006, 03:24 PM

I care.
Again a very good guide, fascinating to read. I really love this deep nation discussions.

guide copyed to http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Dominio...%2C_Golden_Era

vfb · #6 March 15th, 2007, 11:20 PM

Thanks for the great guide! I'm still playing the demo while waiting for my order to arrive. This is a really cool game.

I'm using the above strategy, but I substituted an awake Forge Lord for the Cyclops. He's already got 1 fire to start, and he spent a few early turns making armour. A priestess healed the Forge Lord's limp. Since I'm playing the turn-limited demo, I cranked luck up (to 3) instead of growth, and set random events common.

Baalz · #7 March 16th, 2007, 12:47 PM

Ooooh, one glaring omission (IMHO) is the use of mystic communions for battlemages. The mystics are some of the absolute best mages in the game at forming a communion to dish out damage because they all have astral (for communion master/slave) and they have a variety of the best paths for evocation spells. They're not capital only, reasonably cost efficient researchers, and the ones who get bad/low random picks make great communion slaves while the lucky ones are pretty darned good for their price even before becoming a communion master. Plus, because of the variety you can change the focus of your army every turn by anticipating what you needing to cast in the next battle- you can switch an army from having heavy fire mages to sending out a load of blade winds by just changing who is the slave and who is the master. Or go with an astral focus (make sure to bring a banner of the northern star) and go recruiting with enslave mind when the enemy army is weaker than you. Or switch to water and send a ridiculous amount of cleansing water towards all those undead. I find the mystic is VERY versatile, and one of the best parts of Arco.