Niefelheim Pretender Design Question

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by thejeff

Probably doesn't have the range, but if they're just priests once they've blessed and Sermon of Couraged every one in reach they'll close until they can banish.

If they're Niefel Jarls, you're in a whole different ball game.

Still, I haven't tried it. It might well be more effective than I think.

I haven't tried the skull talisman version, but I've tried skelly spam in test games against other giant opposition like super-skrattir kitted out with blood thorns, and the skeletons do extremely well after just a few rounds of combat, unless there are normal soldiers mixed in with the skeletons for the skrattir to leach off of.

I've also been on the receiving end. For instance, I've had small groups of elite Enc 0 regenerating sacred giants or Eagle Kings in the indy expansion phase stupidly attack a swamp or hot/cold province (doh!) and take lots of afflictions and/or members killed. There is a huge difference between Enc 0 and Enc 2 IME, and I'm probably one of the few players out there who will willingly pay for Earth10 (e.g. for Ashdod or Caelum, anyone with Enc 5 recruitable thugs).

However, I would not be surprised if it turned out that a 1:1 ratio of skull talisman : giants still resulted in a win for the giants. No way to know for sure without testing.

-Max

[chrispedersen]

Ya, someone out there said X10 was never worthwhile; I was too lazy to respond, but I agree with Max that these were one of the few occasions; e10 is occassionally worth it. B10 with a blood fountain is occassionally worth it..