How to play well C'tis ?

Saxon · #1 May 31st, 2004, 09:29 AM

Aroglith has a powerful strategy which uses Disintegrate. I forget the details, but if you run a search, you will find some more on it.

I love Miasma against long life troops, like Ulm or Johnteim. Lift up your dominion and make your neighbors suffer. Boost a sorcerer with the thistle mace and get Gift of Health to avoid diseasing your own troops, notably sages if you get a good sage province.

The undead are the way to go. For undead archers, there is a good spell that summons a troop of undead with flaming arrows. If memory serves (I am in the office) it is a death and nature magic spell, so it is a good secondary use for the mage who casts Gift of Health. Similarly, mass protection is very useful generally, but I found it particularly useful for C’tis.

For your god, consider the undead sauromancer. Besides just being fun to have an undead lizard god, an immortal with high death magic can summon a lot of troops to trash independents or AI. If you are using Miasma and working to push your dominion, it also means the immortal can be used more offensively.

Anglachel · #2 May 31st, 2004, 12:08 PM

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The undead are the way to go. For undead archers, there is a good spell that summons a troop of undead with flaming arrows. If memory serves (I am in the office) it is a death and nature magic spell, so it is a good secondary use for the mage who casts Gift of Health.

The spell you are referring to is called Animate Archers. It is a level 6 enchantment that requries two death and one fire to cast. It's gem cost is 5 death and it summons 10 skeleton archers that shoot banefire arrows that are armor piercing and can cause decay in troops they hit. Sauromancers have 3 death, one fire, and one random for the relatively cheap price of 180 gold and are perfectly suited for raising these archers. A 10 troop for 5 death gem ritual is a bargin just on pure numbers but add in the power of the weapon they use and you have a very powerful spell for C'tis tomb theme with sauromancers.

[ May 31, 2004, 11:27: Message edited by: Anglachel ]