An intial try at a Pythium strategy guide

[tinkthank]

By the way, has anyone noticed this "bug"?

I noticed it when building wizard towers and communicants: Recruiting a communicant *does not require a temple*. Communicants are sacred, however, and normally you need a temple to recruit sacred units. Not so for communicants.

Odd, no?

[Teraswaerto]

Sacred units can be recruited without a temple. Only priests require a temple.

[Chris Byler]

Sacred *units* require a temple.

Priests require a temple.

Sacred commanders that are not priests don't require a temple.

There aren't very many sacred commanders that aren't priests, but there are a couple.

I just had another interesting thought about communions: you know that Blood spell that allows you to sacrifice a blood slave to remove the caster's fatigue? If you cast that as a communion master, does it also remove your slaves' fatigue (following the general rule about self-only spells and communion slaves)?

[tinkthank]

Thanks for the heads-up on sacred commanders, me stupid.

That blood spell you are referring to is currently broken. It does not even restore fatigue to the caster himself. I believe this is a known bug for quite some time.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by tinkthank:
That blood spell you are referring to is currently broken. It does not even restore fatigue to the caster himself. I believe this is a known bug for quite some time.

The reinvigoration spell was fixed in patch 2.11

[Huzurdaddi]

Ethereal Elephants aren'that good, their ever-crappy morale makes them rout pretty easily even if Ethereal

Yeah that's pretty much what I found. And boy did it suck when they trampled those expensive mages!

Hoplites are a better choice.

Ahh fond memories. They used to be my favorite infantry until my current infatuitation with Principe! Actually I also liked the Hypaspist. I think that on cost basis I actually liked the Hypaspist better. But they are both good.

a good Ethereal candidate is Abysia, with their strong, human-sized infantry.

Ohh that is a good one. Their infantry would be quite nice etherial. (hehe I still like the principe better!).

The thing is that this does require quite a number of casters to make it work. So you really need ( IMO ) really cheap casters that are sacred that leaves you with:

1) Pythium has these in mass.
2) Ctis ( yay Shaman ).
3) Marignon has the Witch Hunter ( same as the theurg ).
4) R'lyeh has the starspawn ( but really don't they have better things to do! ).
5) Ulm's Illuminated One ( ok they are not sacred but they are CHEAP ).

Most of these races are usually considered real "contenders." Well all of them except for Ulm Black Forest.

[HotNifeThruButr]

Hoplites were always a big no-no for me. Hypaspists are easier to build with a closer gold to resources ratio and they have two strat move while still being able to mop the floor with almost all other heavy infants