Guide: LA Man - Death and Taxes

[AreaOfEffect]

1) If Man can keep up on research without resorting to using owl quills, then that is the path I will always favor. Quills don't provide enough research to compensate for the opportunity cost. Air gems are just too useful for so many other rituals and items.

2) Your right. I'll fix that.

3) I don't exclude blood as an option. I was tempted to talk about blood and mention that it would bring hardy mages and magic diversity, but I knew that starting down that path would lead to talk about what every other skill can bring to the table, and you don't need me to tell you that.

4) I agree. The only time I mentioned anything about battle commands was with expansion. The only unit I said not to fire with were the starting spearmen, who can't fire anyhow.

Thanks.

[chrispedersen]

Great stuff.

A few codicils.

Man magisters make one of the *best* mage assassins in the game.
Body ethereal, luck stone/iron skin, IronWill/Resist Magic

Perhaps farstrike. And all the while your opponent will suffer the effects of drain while you will not - if you are projecting dominion.

[OmikronWarrior]

Originally Posted by AreaOfEffect

Thanks.

My comments were less criticisms (except for the Magister one) and more caveats to supplement the guide for future readers.

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

And all the while your opponent will suffer the effects of drain while you will not - if you are projecting dominion.

Do you mean just the research penatly? Because I believe Man has the same fatigue penalty on the battlefield as everyone else.

[AreaOfEffect]

Originally Posted by OmikronWarrior

My comments were less criticisms (except for the Magister one) and more caveats to supplement the guide for future readers.

I misread. Thanks once again. By all means add your imput. There is so much I wanted to add, but restrained as some of it didn't pretain directly to the strategy, some of it wasn't exclusively about Man, and I suppose the guide was long enough already.