Calling God Back

[The_Tauren13]

The Panther said:
You just put 20 level 2 priests on it and you get your god back in one turn.

why would you have 20 level 2 priests lying around, unless youre fighting ermor?

[Thufir]

The_Tauren13 said:

why would you have 20 level 2 priests lying around, unless youre fighting ermor?

Well, in Pythiums case their level 2 priests are the cheapest researchers, so you might have quite a few of them in order to boost your research level. There's other races whose mages are also priests - I think the designers have done this as much to give certain races more economical research and cheaper access to mages as much as for thematic reasons.

[archaeolept]

while theurg acolytes only cost 90, and have a reasearch of 6 under 3 magic, real thueurgs are only 150 for a research of 9, which is something like 90% as efficient (higher, of course, if magic is less than 3). Given how much more combat power a theurg wields, I end up almost exclusively buying them, and only having a very few acolytes for menial tasks.

[The Panther]

In the case of Serpent Cult Pythium, ALL national mages are also priests. SC Pythium is probably the single best killer of AE or SG Ermor in the game.

[archaeolept]

?? how you figure?

base pythium is surely the best killer of undead.

[Sheap]

Regular theurgs, being holy-3, also happen to excel at calling god. So in either case it is likely that the pretender will be resurrected sooner rather than later, which is the actual point...

[Morkilus]

Since Priests dispel undead, how many would you suggest against 1060 undead units hanging out in a fortress? (I already have a large number of archers, but doubt their morale can handle even a single attack round...I can't bust the fortress down yet... any ideas on that, either?) This is all against the AI. Ermor doesn't factor into the large game anymore, I just want to destroy that stupid army spawn point....sorry if I'm off subject