Hi, I'm new! And.. uh.. help?

Shovah32 · #1 November 13th, 2006, 09:15 PM

If you want a practice nation my number one suggestion is late LA Man. They have great archers (longbows and crossbows), nice mages for LA (who arent affected by drain), armoured troops and some of the best national troops in late era in the form of defenders (good armour, kite shields, broadswords and crossbows) and possibly wardens (crossbows and greatswords) for raiding. For a pretender set-up try:

Prince of Death with:
dominion 10
order 3
production 3
misfortune 2
drain 3
dormant (so you have time to forge items for him)
and with spare points boost his death magic as high as possible

For your strategy: expand with your starter army and defenders, buying lots of magister arcanes for research into construction (some cheap armour and a luck pendant for your PoD) for when your pretender awakens. Once your PoD wakes up, give him the armour and pendant and send him out to crush any indies (other than undead) and nationals (with average morale) with ease (his fear reduces enemy morale, meaning that with awe he is untouchable and he can also quickly rout enemies).

Your can get diverse magic (magisters arcane have lots of paths, your PoD gives you death which also lets you access other paths via spectres) which allows you to get decent battle magic, good support magic such as buffs for troops(if you can fit some nature onto that PoD you can summon vine kings with some boosters and then use them to give your troops even more buffs) and also some nice summons (the contruction and enchantment schools are good for LA man).

If you can get your pretender up to death 9 you can also use your wardens to help take down or atleast slow down thugs and SCs in the early-mid game atleast (massed crossbows and greatswords with a 350% chance to cause afflictions and an extra, mr negateable addition to each attack can badly cripple lone enemies) and since they are size 2 you can swarm the enemy (the crossbows are ap and the greatswords have high damage so if you can hit the enemy you can probably hurt them)