Best way to play C'tis Miasma?

[Graeme Dice]

FrankTrollman said:The best Super Combatant you can make is still just going to die sometimes when surrounded by a bunch of greatsword wielding madmen.

With protection over 25, mirror image, no fatigue, and defense around 20, those deaths are rare enough as to not worry about them.

It's not likely, but it's not the kind of risks that are acceptable in a game that can potentially drag on for months.

Why not? If your pretender dies in the first 10 turns, then you won't be playing the game for months anyways. Either you'll get steamrollered by your most powerful neighbour by turn 20 (He'll have two to three times as many provinces as you by that point.), or you'll manage to negotiate for an alliance.

Yeah, a PoD pretender is not the kind of god that you are going to want to send frolicing into a pile of barbarians alone.

Of course you can. You simply have to script him right, and give him the proper equipment. You likely can't do it quickly enough with Miasma C'Tis, but any of the earth nations can do it within 5 turns. The easiest way to show this is to give him 9 death magic and play base Ulm. Give him a black plate cuirass, black plate helmet, sword of sharpness, lead shield, and boots of the behemoth. No scripting required beyond an "attack rear". It's a very rare province indeed that will give him more than a single affliction, and those don't affect his performance to any great degree.

You'd still be better off doing this with a ghost king though, as the etherealness makes him all but immune to normal troops once his protection gets high enough.