Help! strats using T'ien Chi's Celestial Mages ...

[KissBlade]

Yeah I spoke with Ironhawk yesterday and he gave me similar advice. However, it seems to be that T'ien Chi S&A is really a big paper tiger. They can dish it out but they seriously can't take it. Their military, is a little subpar and they really can't conjure anything worthwhile at all unless you get a lucky roll and then make some boosters to help out. =(

[Sandman]

Playing S&A, I can scarcely be bothered to summon their demons. Are they really worth it?

[shovah]

as expensive as it seems try 30-40 fire demons, if you combine that with a w9 bless they absolutely slaughter enemys

[Truper]

If you could summon them faster than 1 at a time, they'd be great.

[KissBlade]

I'm not using S&A with a bless strategy. It's simply too expensive and impractical in my opinion since I can do a bless strategy with ANOTHER NATION a lot more effectively. Same goes for massing their military, which brings me back to my other point, why would I do something that I can do better with base theme? The M5E is a good point as well as raiding with Celestial Masters but you're trading off a much better income and losing your entire military as a trade off. Is it really worth it?

[Ironhawk]

For flying mages? Yeah it pretty much is After all S&A military is not terrible. I looked at it the other night - you get those heavy footment and you get archers. What else do you really need, given that your entire military is just like a placeholder to protect your mages? And you get the M5E which can sitesearch like no other as well, so you know your gem income will be good.

[KissBlade]

But your mages can only fly with demons of holy fire so really they often won't have heavy footies to protect them. Granted the military isn't that bad I suppose, you also lose out on the income to fund anything worthwhile after like turn 5 aside from spamming mages. (Since it really doesn't seem worth building after awhile)