MP guide to MA/LA R'lyeh

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Evilhomer said:
Well, you do realise that luck comes with a price right ? Thats 5 scales, i.e 200 design points you are giving up. So the question should really not be if you think luck beats misfortune, but if you cannot find something better to put those 200 design points into. In my experience with R'lyeh in multiplayer games, misfortune has always proven to be a good pick (i.e I have always had something more worthwhile to invest those 200 design points into).

I agree, and these are SP experiences from my side. However, using the scales/magic listed in the alternate strategy by Zath, along with taking an imprisoned pretender, but using your expansion strategies otherwise (with the exception of using Illithids as the bulk of my armies and not, of course, using a SC pretender), I had much better results in SP than with your strategy alone. I am not trying to discount what you are saying, just sharing my experiences with both strategies.