Good High Bless strat for EA C'tis in MP ?

[BigDisAwesome]

I think a W9 bless is good for the Dancers, just remember to keep them away from ranged enemies.

[Wauthan]

Hmmm... A bless strat for C'Tis really only works in SP games, since the low protection of sacreds is so easily countered by dedicated archers.

Against the AI however I find that a fun strategy is to go for the "Poison Flood". With W9 blessing you get fairly cheap sacred units that can tie up a lot units in melee, though killing power really is subpar. These units are conveniently immune to poison. So the point of this strategy is to bring as many noxious and toxic elements into the battles as possible. EA C'Tis lack the handy poison slingers but the national summoned units somewhat compensates for this.

It's an incredibly inefficient strategy of course but I find that it's strangely amusing and suprisingly viable in SP. "Themed warfare" can be a neat way to get a few extra miles of fun out of the game.

[RamsHead]

I am actually currently working on a guide to EA C'tis. Like the others in this thread have said, a bless strategy is not something you should aim for with C'tis. If you are going to go with a high bless, then go with W9. It makes your Serpent Dancers very difficult to hit in melee. It will also help the Sacred Serpent's lack of defense skill. A number of C'tis's national summons (all of which are sacred by the way) also benefit from a W9 bless.

Teraswaerto is exactly correct when he said that Sauromancers are EA C'tis's strength.

[smu666ler]

Ok, I am dropping the High bless ... I had a feeling you will tell me it's no good, but just wanted to see if there's a possibility. I'll just get a dragon or something (how would a 4e cyclops fare?)

[Wauthan]

A 4e Cyclops seems like a waste really. As does a dragon. Go for a magicless Wyrm for early expansion or a rainbow mortal pretender for early sitesearching and research.

[KissBlade]

f9/w9 Solar Disk with sloth 3/death 3 is easily doable with serpent dancers and it's not bad at all actually. I should point out, Ctis also gets sacred summons as well so consider adding those into your game. I know qm takes blesses one step further and goes f9/w9/a4 to really push it but it was too expensive for my tastes. However, the dancers really shouldn't be underestimated.

[BigDisAwesome]

What really interests me is the Scorpian Man you can summon at Conjuration 8. The only problem is you have no access to Earth or Fire Magic without a little indie luck. They're so good though, it's almost worth giving your pretender E2 to pump out Earth Boots and either 4 fire or a combination of fire and other magic paths to make a fire booster.
I think i'm bout to go see what kinda scales I could have to get a F1/W9/E2/N4 pretender. brb



So lets see here. You could take an imprisoned Crone with 4F/9W/4E/1D/4N and still have enough points left to get a dominion of 6 order2/sloth3/heat3/magic1.
Perhaps it'd be better to get some luck in there for more gems though since you're not gonna be able to start effectively site searching for fire and earth gems til your god comes out.

It's a bit of a long shot, but if you could survive til about turn 40ish you could get the Scorpian Man machine started. What do ya guys think?

[RamsHead]

KissBlade said:
f9/w9 Solar Disk with sloth 3/death 3 is easily doable with serpent dancers and it's not bad at all actually. I should point out, Ctis also gets sacred summons as well so consider adding those into your game. I know qm takes blesses one step further and goes f9/w9/a4 to really push it but it was too expensive for my tastes. However, the dancers really shouldn't be underestimated.

I don't think anyone is saying that Serpent Dancers are bad, just that basing a bless strategy around them is bad. With a f9w9a4 bless, they are still too vulnerable to archers, which those taking on C'tis will be using alot of to take advantage of C'tis's lack of missle units. It might be a somewhat useful strategy for blitzes, but even in them it is a dangerous strategy to pull off.