ME Arcocephale Strategy Guide

[Horst F. JENS]

this guide is excellent. reading it is really a joy.

[Xietor]

The problem with luck with an imprisoned pretender is you may get gems or other events instead of gold early. And you need the gold early for your elephants. And it is also possible,
despite the odds in your favor, of a bad event.

In the early game with an imprisoned pretender, I need the certainty of having the gold there to buy mages/elephants.