MA C'Tis, Let me get this straight.....

[Ubercat]

Jazzepi said:
I don't think it's that bad. I'm recruiting enchantresses in a current game, and using rings of regen to keep them alive.

Miasma provides a +1% bonus to income per level of domininon, it *should* have a drawback.

Jazzepi

Actually, I think that's a 1% penalty per point of dominion to income for you, 5% penalty per dom point for your enemies (with lands under your dominion.) Bottom line, ME C'Tis dominion damages it's own income, but hurts it's enemies worse.

That's what the book says IIRC and it seemed to be confirmed in my test game in that I still seemed to have some slight money problems despite using order 3.

[Jazzepi]

Quoted directly from the description in game...

"Within provinces influenced by this Dominion, income is increased by 1 percent per level of Dominion, and the income of enemy provinces is reduced by 5 percent per level of domininon."

Miasma provides a bonus to the lizard folk.

Jazzepi

[DrPraetorious]

IIUC, Ubercat is correct about *unpatched* game behavior, but the income was fixed to match the documents in 3.04 or 3.06.

[Meglobob]

I think Mother of Serpents for her healing ability may be a good choice of pretender for Ma Ctis. It depends on how good a healer she is however. She could heal the diseased and afflicted.

Mother of Monsters as well. She gets +3 Lamias and Lamias are immune to miasma. The Lamia queen can extend your magic diversity as well.

Even without indies you can get all 8 paths of magic with Ma Ctis if you plan correctly and that does not involve what you put on your pretender. Some of those paths will however be only available for the endgame however, example air from faiery queen needs conjuration lvl 8.

[Jazzepi]

I've been very happy with Dom 10, a naked Wyrm pretender, and good scales. Your mages are absolutely amazing. Great, great randoms. I have some guys with D4 and N3 *without* any boosters. Plus you can augury site search for water, astral, nature, and death right out of the box.

Jazzepi

[RamsHead]

Jazzepi said:
Your mages are absolutely amazing. Great, great randoms. I have some guys with D4 and N3 *without* any boosters.

Jazzepi

I assume you are talking about Marshmasters and saying that you can get D4 and N3 on the same Marshmaster. If not, then ignore the following.

Marshmasters start with D2 N2 W1 and have a 100% chance to get another point in DNWA as well as having an extra 10% chance for yet another point in those paths. It is impossible to get a Marshmaster with D4 N3 without a booster. This is not to say that Marshmasters are poor mages though.

[Jazzepi]

RamsHead said:

I assume you are talking about Marshmasters and saying that you can get D4 and N3 on the same Marshmaster. If not, then ignore the following.

Marshmasters start with D2 N2 W1 and have a 100% chance to get another point in DNWA as well as having an extra 10% chance for yet another point in those paths. It is impossible to get a Marshmaster with D4 N3 without a booster. This is not to say that Marshmasters are poor mages though.

I meant on different marsh masters.

Jazzepi