A glance at Bogarus

[Shadrach]

TheDemon has a nice Bogarus guide that's worth checking out. Astrapelagist communions seem like a much better way to lay down thunderstrikes than using Starets with gems.

Bogarus is all about getting as many mages as possible as soon as possible IMHO, which is the main reason to go for scales. You should have numbers and you'll have pretty good mobility too, as Astrapelagists can cloud trapeze and one in four Starets and Masters of Names can teleport (they can all teleport with a cap). One Starets and one Astrapelagist is all you need to force multiply a mass of (preferably indie) archers with wind guide/flaming arrows, and a bunch of Astrapelagists and/or Masters of Names have a lot of things they can do with or without communions. Your end game is blood, but Tartarians are not out of the question if you plan for them.

By the way, anyone know what the plural of Starets would be? Staretsi?

[TheDemon]

Originally Posted by Shadrach

TheDemon has a nice Bogarus guide that's worth checking out. Astrapelagist communions seem like a much better way to lay down thunderstrikes than using Starets with gems.

I take a cheap SC in my guide because sometimes you simply have 3 or 4 provinces around your cap that your starting army cannot touch. It's a 1-province SC, problem being you really really need that one province.

But if you want to put up with that uncertainty, I definitely agree with everything else Executor has said. Bogarus's big strength is gold and from that, more communion battlemages than any other nation can make. And their heavy cavalry is incredibly good.

[ExHeretic]

Do you want to tell us how to get more communion battlemages whit bogarus than for example acro?

About half of the late age nations can buy usefull communion battlemages from every castle. So i dont see the point in that comment