Help Design my EA TC Setup?.(CBM 1.71)

[Baalz]

Ooops, was speaking from memory and misremembered the scales, also left a part out - cold 3 scale works very well for the build I suggested. Breath of winter is brutal with W9 in cold, cold dominion turns water elementals into ice elementals (much better for many things), a lot of water evo works better in cold (numbness, ice mist, grip of winter), your W5E don't take an enc hit naturally and are easy to get to 100% CR for things like fighting inside frozen mist, grip of winter, etc. Lots of synergy for cold-3 scales. This does give you an income hit, but you can still have reasonable scales with something like O3, P0, C3, D3, Mf1, Ma1, Dom9. A matter of preference, but I like C3/D3 scales where appropriate as they really kill supply chains for anybody invading you (your castles generally keep you supplied inside your dominion). Enchanted shield (the S1 one) is const-0.

[rabelais]

I have (finally!) made my pretender. Thank you to all those who read / participated.

here are the options I seriously considered. Let me know which you think closest to optimal. Also guess which I actually chose.

Map is AsiaTwist 19 nations site freq 60.

Wyrm no magic. awake. for waterstomping regenerating poison immune goodness.

Phoenix f4a4 dormant. just in time for fire arrow rush.

Oracle: always popular for scalewhoring efficiency. s4 imp gives +13 scales s6 +12 s9 +9 scales all at Dom8!

Sacred statue. one scale less than oracle, in exchange for better stats (though not slots) and amphibious.

Mother of rivers, w9 Dom5 imp leaves you +7 scales. Awake is -1/-2 scales but expands shockingly well.

Lady of fortune considered several imp setups. w9s9 dom 10 (-4 scales) to w9s4 dom 7 (+4 scales)

Jade Emperor considered several imp configs from a4s4w4 dom 6 (+9 scales) to a9s9w9 (don't ask)

Cyclops for e9 for sacred mages. he needs either f1 or dom3 back, or a price reduction to be competitive IMHO

Lord of Plenty everything from s4e4 to s9e9 (curiously the nerf of his gem production made him much less attractive even with *much* less to do with earth gems.)

Does he have a luck effect similar to the Lady of Fortune?

Crone, various setup based around s4d4n4(?1) for endgame options and site searching/path expanding fun. +6 scales Dom 6 dormant, before further adds.

Titan a9s4 dom7 dormant for lightning immune sacreds with a little something for the magery.

Looked at the dragons, but Dom1 really hurts them. I think they may need a buff.


I am impressed with the way 1.7 always leaves you a tiny bit short of further synergy. With 3 more points to spend I would have chosen differently.

[rabelais]

How would you folks take out a prov with 16 heavy cav, 19 light cav (shortbows) and 27 light infantry (shield + jav) using EA TC national troops and no prophet?

Everything I try in the battle simulator fails until I have massive numerical superiority. Really impressive actually.

Also assume availabilty of indy archers if you like. Even a noble rush doesn't work well, as if I had the resources for that.


Thanks.