Good Pretender for T'ien C'hi?

[Rytek]

I am in 2 MP games with EA TC. I have to say that other players tend to look upon EA TC as easy prey because of the human troops vs all of the EA exotic troops. In both games I was attacked early by rushers. In the first game I went with an awake Dom 6, S6,W4 Lady of luck. Scales:Order3,sloth1,growth1,Misfor2,magic1. Just as I was being rushed I had CONST 4 researched and the Pretender fully outfitted. The Pretender was able to hold off the rush. The high Astral is really proving awesome in the late game. An all around good pretender for early,mid and late game.

In the second game I was rushed strongly by an E9 Cyclops/Abssyia. I went with a Lich D9N4. This bless is hard to expand with-- you really need creative scripting to avoid losses. This bless really shined against the heavy armor of Abyssia though. I researched Evoc early. The 2AN of the blesseds shredded even the high armor of the Abyssians and Cyclops.

I think you really need to have a plan vs early rushers due to the percieved weakness of early TC.