Some help with Pan please?

[Graeme Dice]

tinkthank said:
- How much Turmoil, if any, do you take?

None, ever, for any theme that does not require it. Maenads are not worth losing 42% of your income and more than 42% of your purchasing power.

You want order 3, sloth 3, magic 2-3, then pick whatever else you want. Dryads make fine researchers with or without a magic scale. Buy centaur warriors. They can take on even air queens that aren't equipped properly, and bane lords are little problem either. 30 centaur warriors vs. 30 hypaspist's will usually end with 1-2 dead centaurs and a total loss for Arco.

Then you can ramp up for alteration 5 very quickly to cast mother oak, then conjuration 6 to start pumping out lamias.

[Boron]

Graeme Dice said:
Buy centaur warriors. They can take on even air queens that aren't equipped properly, and bane lords are little problem either. 30 centaur warriors vs. 30 hypaspist's will usually end with 1-2 dead centaurs and a total loss for Arco.

Hm i never looked properly at the Centaur Warrior but you are right they look quite good .
Would you say that they are costwise the most economical cavalry in the game ?

The only really worthy competitor i can think of would be the Van but probably only a van with a good bless can be victorious .

Stuff like a knight of the chalice wins vs. a Centaur Warrior 1on1 but since not many can be bought they should not be considered

[tinkthank]

Hey thanks a lot.
Didnt understand these small points however, or have further questions about them:
- Maneads not good as fodder? Häh? They worked beautifully for me as ... fodder. For nothing else, of course. What makes them bad fodder? They are, in fact, berserker fodder!
- 42% of purchasing power? Well I only tried Turmoil-1, not3, and I got quite a few Maneads that way. I have never taken the sloth scale, since it also affects income -- do you find that the income reduction due to sloth is worth the 40 points if you have order-3 already?
Thank you very much, this is all very helpful.

PS. Gandalf, would you also ever consider posting about Pan strategy?

[jeffr]

I've used blessed white centaurs to good effect. Of course, the rest of my strategy sucked (crappy magic, worse scales, mediocre pretender), but the white centaurs were pretty strong.