Good High Bless strat for EA C'tis in MP ?

[RamsHead]

I am actually currently working on a guide to EA C'tis. Like the others in this thread have said, a bless strategy is not something you should aim for with C'tis. If you are going to go with a high bless, then go with W9. It makes your Serpent Dancers very difficult to hit in melee. It will also help the Sacred Serpent's lack of defense skill. A number of C'tis's national summons (all of which are sacred by the way) also benefit from a W9 bless.

Teraswaerto is exactly correct when he said that Sauromancers are EA C'tis's strength.

[smu666ler]

Ok, I am dropping the High bless ... I had a feeling you will tell me it's no good, but just wanted to see if there's a possibility. I'll just get a dragon or something (how would a 4e cyclops fare?)

[Wauthan]

A 4e Cyclops seems like a waste really. As does a dragon. Go for a magicless Wyrm for early expansion or a rainbow mortal pretender for early sitesearching and research.

[KissBlade]

f9/w9 Solar Disk with sloth 3/death 3 is easily doable with serpent dancers and it's not bad at all actually. I should point out, Ctis also gets sacred summons as well so consider adding those into your game. I know qm takes blesses one step further and goes f9/w9/a4 to really push it but it was too expensive for my tastes. However, the dancers really shouldn't be underestimated.

[BigDisAwesome]

What really interests me is the Scorpian Man you can summon at Conjuration 8. The only problem is you have no access to Earth or Fire Magic without a little indie luck. They're so good though, it's almost worth giving your pretender E2 to pump out Earth Boots and either 4 fire or a combination of fire and other magic paths to make a fire booster.
I think i'm bout to go see what kinda scales I could have to get a F1/W9/E2/N4 pretender. brb



So lets see here. You could take an imprisoned Crone with 4F/9W/4E/1D/4N and still have enough points left to get a dominion of 6 order2/sloth3/heat3/magic1.
Perhaps it'd be better to get some luck in there for more gems though since you're not gonna be able to start effectively site searching for fire and earth gems til your god comes out.

It's a bit of a long shot, but if you could survive til about turn 40ish you could get the Scorpian Man machine started. What do ya guys think?

[Valandil]

Personnaly, I've always liked the scorpion man. It doesn't seem to be strong enough to base a strategy around though.

[BigDisAwesome]

Lets see here... Abysia and C'tis are the only 2 nations that can summon them right? Looks like I'd be a lot better off modifying that plan for Abysia.

[RamsHead]

KissBlade said:
f9/w9 Solar Disk with sloth 3/death 3 is easily doable with serpent dancers and it's not bad at all actually. I should point out, Ctis also gets sacred summons as well so consider adding those into your game. I know qm takes blesses one step further and goes f9/w9/a4 to really push it but it was too expensive for my tastes. However, the dancers really shouldn't be underestimated.

I don't think anyone is saying that Serpent Dancers are bad, just that basing a bless strategy around them is bad. With a f9w9a4 bless, they are still too vulnerable to archers, which those taking on C'tis will be using alot of to take advantage of C'tis's lack of missle units. It might be a somewhat useful strategy for blitzes, but even in them it is a dangerous strategy to pull off.

[GameExtremist]

*double post*

[GameExtremist]

I've just started playing C'tis in a EA mp game, I went with a SC pretender (deliberately vague incase one of my co-players is reading )with high water scales and very high dom, I intend to use the sauromancers and focus on death magic, at first I wasn't that impressed with their national troops, but falchineers are quite effective at taking out indies, dual falchions ftw!

So far so good, taking lots of ground...though it's only turn 5 .

Like others have said before, I don't think C'tis is suited to a bless strategy, I think a heavy focus on death magic is the way to go