Pythium strategy advice

Teraswaerto · #1 January 1st, 2007, 04:17 PM

They cost too much IMO, both resources and gold. Also, Principes have strategic move 2, Emerald Guards have 1.

Jack_Trowell · #2 January 1st, 2007, 06:15 PM

The earth blessing can be very useful for pythium : more reinvigoration is always nice with sacred mages, and more so if you try to use communion.

Shovah32 · #3 January 2nd, 2007, 01:16 PM

Yes, an earth blessing is amazing with large communions, it helps to stop your communicants from dying

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Aleph · #4 January 5th, 2007, 05:11 PM

Are the higher pythian mages pre-loaded with Communion Master like the greebles are with Communion Slave?

Shovah32 · #5 January 5th, 2007, 05:20 PM

No but its very easy to cast for your higher level mages.

LDiCesare · #6 January 5th, 2007, 06:28 PM

What about hydras? Anyone use them?

curtadams · #7 January 5th, 2007, 07:03 PM

I find Communion slave more useful for the *low*-level mages. 4 communion slaves and the 1S1H mages can cast Smite, without any research. This also doesn't put much fatigue stress on the communicants, so they don't die so much. Plus they're not old.

To get decent mileage from the high-level mages I find I need two communicants for each mage and some mid-level research. Quite a bit more gold and a substantial delay.