Good Pretender design for Marverni?

[Wish]

heres what I ran recently that really worked - he could take nearly anything but cavalry.

PoD, 9 dom (10 is too dang expensive,) 4 water 4 earth 3 death, juggle scales to your liking.

the water and earth are for increased defense and protection. (he has a little of both already, but the extra +4 to both really helps round him out.)

on turn 2 you have enough to make a black iron breastplate - do so and send him out on turn 3. he is at somewhere around 23-24 prot, and since he flies he can really clean up all the tribes and infantries.

after a little research upgrade his weapon to maybe a frost brand (for AoE) and give him a shield. At some point you can have him casting invulnerability and soul vortex, so you can swap out his armor for a robe of shadows.

it works out pretty good.

[Potatoman]

Why is soul vortex worth casting on a guy that doesn't generate fatigue? The extra 1 damage/healing per turn seems pretty useless.

[Graeme Dice]

Soul vortex affects a rather large area surrounding the caster, you can never have too much healing, and there are multiple ways to cause fatigue to zero encumbrance units.

[Wish]

well, to eat up the fatigue caused by casting invulnerability

[KissBlade]

In Rpg's, we call it "Crowd control" =).

[Wish]

soul vortex + breath of winter results in some sleeping armies around you, which is better armor when you yourself are asleep than any armor in the game

[Aleph]

Each of W4/E4 are worth 122 points for your pretender. Do you really need both? I'd think you could get by with E4 alone, as protection should be worth more against masses of troops, and that those 122 points might be better spent on 3 scales.

I have to admit, though, I'm thinking about him more for MA C'tis, so that might change some of the dynamics.