Request: Tips for LA T'ien Chi

[Jazzepi]

I meant high protection from their equipped armor, and then high defense skill from the water bless.

I'm a dork

Though do have good hitpoints though.

Jazzepi

[Baalz]

Death and Water are both good blesses for LA T'ien Ch'i, but I have to agree that you're gonna be better off going with good scales than a dual bless. The non-sacred heavy horseman is plenty good enough to carry you through the phase of the game that a good blessing really helps with, and T'ien Ch'i really benefits from good gold, resources, and research.

Also, LA T'ien Ch'i has some of the best PD in the game.

[jutetrea]

Well after playing around a bit more in SP I think I like the rainbow strategy so far. A moderate bless of 4F/4E/4N/4D works well, just not sure if I should ditch air/astral or go 4A/2S or 2A/4S on the pretender. This is with a ghost king, so there are side benefits as well - ok SC with items, ghost production, 20+ research and site searching. Lich is nice for immortality, great enchantress for 1 gem/turn (not real nice), or sage for even more research.

I've been wanting to try LA TC with a bless for a bit, but with a large game I dont think the synergy is great enough for a huge jump. shrug.

[thejeff]

I used something like this:

Imprisoned Master Lich
Water 9
Death 8

Dominion 6

Order 3
Production 0
Heat 0
Growth 0
Misfortune 2
Drain 2

Shift the scales around as you prefer, you only need one negative scale, which isn't bad at all. Drain hurts, but you can do both quills and skull mentors, so it's not that bad.

It may not be the most effective bless, but the Water is, as usual, brutal and the death works very well with Late TC.

It's not so much that death is the best bless for TC, as that TC is the best nation for the death bless.
All your mages are sacred, so they benefit from the affliction chance. The sacreds are one of the few sacred archers and they have those cool fear bows, so I had to find a way to make it worthwhile to use them.
I don't know how they'd stack up in MP. They're not Vans or Neifels and they are capital only, so they'll lose effectiveness eventually. I'll bet SCs will still fear the affliction bonus, though.

[Jazzepi]

I really like the idea of using blade wind with a self-blessed W9D8 priest battle mage as a retreating affliction crippling anti-invasion technique.

Here's what I'd do to script some PD backed up mages.

Summon Earth Power, Bless, Blade Wind, Blade Wind, Retreat

Jazzepi

[MaxWilson]

Just keep in mind that afflictions are more psychological warfare than an invasion-stopper. In practice, Leprosy will probably create more afflictions than the D9 battle mage. However, the battle mage doesn't cost gems.

-Max

[Rytek]

I played around a bit with it last night as well. Ooops, can't get a PoD. After playing with it a bit, I agree that the way to go is minor bless.

[chrispedersen]

The key to Tien Chi IMO is Rivers. A L2 (iirc) summon bless vehicle. I always triple-9 bless, usually with Fire, Water, Astral Spring.

[KissBlade]

It's also incredibly slow to mass up river demons for triple blesses.

[HotNifeThruButr]

I was aware that Heavenly Rivers and Heavenly Fire are only accessible to Spring and Autumn.