Newbie enjoying undead, looking for advice

[Shovah32]

For LA ermor, imo, turmoil3 sloth3 cold3 death3 luck3 magic1 is the way to go. Plenty of points for a fairly versatile, high dominion, awake lich queen, good research and lots of luck(although you need to kill the militia asap due to upkeep)

[Agrajag]

Shovah32 said:
(although you need to kill the militia asap due to upkeep)

Its much funnier to use them to pillage the province they are in to 0 population and watch them starve
(Though I usually just send a half zillion troops led by 1/50 zillion freespawn commanders to pillage the province to supplylessness)

[Aleph]

Shovah - didn't catch the upkeep with the militia. I have a bunch running around, will have to stab them asap. Wish I could Imprint those tossers into something useful, but I suppose I could suicide charge them at a moderate enemy and pick up the corpses afterwards.

Agrajag - I don't get the other aleph references, but thanks for your advice. Right now I'm playing LA Ermor with the scales you recommended and it's going a lot easier. And in a nice surprise (for me at least, I'm sure it's old hat to everyone else), in my other game of LA R'lyeh, at domain 6 or less and Growth 3 has positive population growth, while around 7 it's balanced or just teetering on a very slow decline (and given how many prophets I have I could probably have kept it at 6 and still worked some decent domain expansion if I'd known that was the break point). I'm playing starting Domain 5, Turmoil 3 / Luck 3 / Growth 3 / Magic 1 / Sloth 2 / Cold 3 (I think I recall someone saying that Cold/Heat have no effect underwater) and having a blast. I just wish more spells worked underwater.

[Agrajag]

Aleph said:
Agrajag - I don't get the other aleph references, but thanks for your advice.

I'm glad you're having fun, and that my advice is helpful
As for the Aleph references: Aleph0, Aleph and 2^Aleph are (in very simplistic terms) "orders" of infinity.
AFAIK, They are called so for the Aleph right at the beginning of "einsof".

[Sorlakind]

Ah and my inaccessible cardinal beta beats all your alephs together and more!

[Shovah32]

Another note aleph: You should, if at all possible, get your dominion up to lvl 9 or 10 with ever LA ermor pretender you make.

[Aleph]

My current LA Ermor leader of choice is a Lich Queen with 10 Dominion and excellent Astral and Death magic. I'm sure there are more optional mixes of elements for a combat pretender, but astral and death do fine for me, and I really like Immortality with such a high dominion.