The Ghost King

[thejeff]

I'm probably a suboptimal player, but I'm often looking for a number of things from my pretender, based on the nation. Some diversification in magic, at least enough for boosters in paths my mages have but can't boost, for hammers and for access to death. If the nation has decent troops I'm willing to forgo the starting SC, but unless it's got recruitable thugs it's nice to have a pretender who's capable of playing that role until the better summons are reached.

If the Ghost King can give me my desired magic cheaper than other SC chassis I'll use him. Usually sleeping for the points and so he has some gear when he wakes up.

[Aezeal]

ghostking won't give magic cheap since he has lots of other options..

[Saulot]

Ghost King and Vampire Queen used to be faves of mine back in Dom 2, but don't use them anymore.

[MaxWilson]

IMG, I've made VampireQueen #gcost 110 (that is, cost 110 design points), ethereal, and D2B2 for starting paths. I'm still not tempted to use her but it ought to help out any AIs which choose to take her (so far I haven't encountered one). It's probably a little underpriced (I should drop it back down to D1B2 per vanilla) but Blood is a pretty weak path for SCs and she's an SC, so for now I'm leaving it.

-Max

[CUnknown]

Ghost King is incredible .. that's my opinion. That being said, I rarely use him.

I love the combo SCs / rainbow pretender choices such as GK and the Nagas. They are perhaps a tad pricey, but they do everything you want them to do. You can get a decent bless with him, too, by taking maybe 3 level 4 paths. GK does it all, but nothing extremely well, maybe.

[secretperson]

It seems to me that the Ghost King is more suited for nations with no or weak bless options.

[Wrana]

As I've already said I used him for Helheim which is usually considered a bless nation... I agree that if you want a bless rush strategy, you should use someone else - someone with more than one starting path, especially with high starting path(s).