LA Pythium Hydras

[Ironhawk]

I was mulling over LA Pythium last night and liked all the Heretic flags on thier mages. It occured to me that you could really easily take full drain with this nation and still be ok. Since your researchers are pretty good just on thier own and would negate your own bad dominion in a research center. Has anyone tried that?

[KissBlade]

huh ... wait heretics auto preach your dominion? I thought they decreased it instead?

[Meglobob]

KissBlade said:
huh ... wait heretics auto preach your dominion? I thought they decreased it instead?

Its kinda the same thing, heretic 3 is the same effect as a enemy lvl3 priest preaching.

I wonder if anyone has been brave enough to take virtually all negative scales with a low dominion of lets say 4 and use those heretics to stop your own very nasty dominion spreading beyond your capital, a couple of adjacent provinces?

It would allow you to take a triple+ bless, you have 3 sacreds to use them with and you only suffer the negatives at your capital plus a couple of adjacent provinces.

Would it work or will you die of dominion death?

[Shovah32]

Well a very low dominion score and a high bless aren't exactly good together, even if Hydras are expensive.

[Meglobob]

Shovah32 said:
Well a very low dominion score and a high bless aren't exactly good together, even if Hydras are expensive.

Oh yea, that will teach me to write before I think!

Perhaps 6 or 7?

[Shovah32]

It could work in a rush maybe. Eventually it would probably either just get too difficult to keep your dominion completely under control(making temples to get more sacreds) or you would be left with a small number of sacreds(6-7 per turn) and, at best, completely average scales.

[Ironhawk]

Yeah you dont want to go full negative since you can only negate your own dominion in a few choice provinces. To try to do something systemtic or empire-wide would risk dominion death. The reason why drain is so attractive in this one particular case is because it wouldnt ruin your economy when spread over your nation but is (almost by default) negated for free by your researchers.

[VedalkenBear]

KissBlade said:
huh ... wait heretics auto preach your dominion? I thought they decreased it instead?

The important part, from my perspective, is that they auto-decrease _anyone's_ dominion, every turn. So yes, if they are in your dominion, they decrease it. If they are in enemy dominion, they will decrease that. I have found them to be useful in rapidly converting provinces from enemy control (dominion-wise) to neutral.

While Hydras are nice, imo they're a lot worse than before. Since their HP are capped at the HP of the individual head on top of the stack (yeah, i'm thinking of HOMM too ) their regeneration is now basically worthless.

[VedalkenBear]

I wouldn't say 'worthless'. It does definitely cut down on Afflictions. Also, the final head has roughly 40 HP, so at that point regeneration is quite useful.

I highly doubt this, but does anyone know if giving them more than 100% regen (Nature Bless)allows them to regenerate heads in battle?