Guide: MA Oceania - OMG, I think I've done it

[Micah]

Meteorite Guards are excellent resource sinks, I can't imagine not building them with rlyeh unless you're maxing out your resources some other way, which shouldn't be happening once you get a couple of forts up.

Illithids, OTOH, are pretty much crap-on-a-stick for the price. The crab hybrids are much better in the water, and your mages are much better topside (once you get enough commander slots from underwater forts to make building enough of them possible). They'll get you through initial expansion since indies are dumb and static, but illithid troops get overwhelmed by numbers pretty quickly. They're not at all the centerpiece of a good rlyeh strat.

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by Micah

Illithids, OTOH, are pretty much crap-on-a-stick for the price. The crab hybrids are much better in the water, and your mages are much better topside

God I hope if we meet in the water, you are playing MA R'lyeh. Illithids are bacon savers..... You can't even really effectively stop them with a single high HP/MR unit, like often works against Astral magic spam, as they always spread the love around a bit.

But I do agree wholeheartedly about Meteorites. Most UW castles can only put out a couple a turn anyways, and they're low gold cost, so may as well pile them up until the time is right to put them to good use.