Pythium (MA) strategy

[Ironhawk]

Coming to the thread late but here's my take on Pythium:

1) Pretender - more or less a bless chasis for your angels. So choose paths appropriate for that. Earth will also help your mages/communions.

2) Troops - Principes and Velites are quite adequate for initial expansion. They are superior to almost all the indy troops. Body Ethereal + Hold and Attack is a common trick for early Pythium.

3) Mages - Buy as many Arch Theurgs as you can. They are cap only and the key to a lot of your strategies. Theurgs are good for researching and can be pressed into combat if you need them.

4) Research - Long term goal is always Conj for angels. For the short term, if you are facing high value single target enemies (like Eles or Giants), you want Thaum immediately. If facing regular troops you want communions and some Evoc.

[Aezeal]

on 3) mentioned by ironhawk: should I buy them even in the turns my income is only 360.. that means the first turns you can't even build an army to expand????

[Aezeal]

well torin... CAN my mages handle SC?? lol I dunno

[Xietor]

Pythium's mages cannot handle Sc's until they get paralyze.

So if you have an enemy on your doorstep in 3-4 turns, then no they cant. But hydras are fairly tough, and likely could beat any sc not immune to poison at your capital(where hed have enemy dominion penalties.

In Fallacy, I gambled and took a dormant pretender. But i was
pretty worried about a rush for the 1st 3-4 turns.

[Nikolai]

Hydras are Pythium's answer to most rushes. But you have to see it coming... making enemy advance through clouds of poison is great.

Of course, if Prince of Death or Ghost is coming to visit, you will be beaten and left with capital at best.

By the way, I have stopped a Vanheim rush with 6 ATs chaining smite... but I was lucky because Vanheim player only sent 14 Vans at first. And rest of them were spread. Still lost the game (to next enemy)

It's not about beating rush, it's about convincing neighbour it is not worth it. When rush fails, both players end out of running for victory.

[Aezeal]

No need not to keep posting about MA pythium pplz...

[Xietor]

Pythium would laugh at a a POD or Ghost King if it rushed it.
Laugh. You have been hanging around your nephew too long Nik!

POD has no answer to solar rays. Evoc 2.