MA Pangaea-best starting troops?

Xietor · #1 March 11th, 2007, 04:55 PM

Though it is rare, if you get the harpy hero, she generates harpies, so that is sweet! She travels with my main army, but i take no luck so she does not appear often.

Shovah32 · #2 March 11th, 2007, 05:00 PM

If your playing against MA Ulm you might like to consider making a big group of regular minotaurs using all 246 of your resources for 1 or 2 turns, if you can shield them from missile weapons like arbalests you will destroy ulm-they have no real counter to tramplers that early in the game other than SC pretenders (and you should probably just swarm them with chaff), while troglodytes would probably be preferable minotaurs should do the job just fine(with the added bonus of being able to put the hurt on any large pretenders with a defence under 20)

jeffr · #3 March 11th, 2007, 09:19 PM

I also think the White Centaur is the best Pan unit. Heavily blessed, of course. I have to yet to win in MP, though, so I'm not exactly sure I'm correct here

At the moment several large Mictlan devil armies are wiping the floor with me.

Beorne · #4 March 12th, 2007, 06:17 AM

great, I've found a thread of expert Pangea players.

Someone experienced using of tune spells? Someone has been able to use the tunes in some way with some good effect?

Thanks

Teraswaerto · #5 March 12th, 2007, 06:34 AM

Nope. Found no use for the tunes.

*disclaimer* Not an expert Pangaea player! Never claimed that.

mivayan · #6 March 13th, 2007, 04:55 PM

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Beorne said:
great, I've found a thread of expert Pangea players.

Someone experienced using of tune spells? Someone has been able to use the tunes in some way with some good effect?

Thanks

Once!

When enemy fliers attacked my hold-and-attack army, a dryad in the middle used tune of growth to entangle three frost fiends and two vampires. The defence penalty from that helped my army destroy them fast.

Aleph · #7 March 12th, 2007, 10:05 AM

Nobody taking death on their pretender for Lamias and the Carrion summons?

Xietor · #8 March 12th, 2007, 10:22 AM

Like i said earlier, mages in the castle are what i use to cast mother oak and gift of health. Many of them come with 1 death already, so if you can find 30 death gems you could set up one of your mages to summon.

I like using that weapon with my gorgon that create an aoe poison effect. That combined with petrification clears out most troops pretty fast. Especially early in the game when access to other magic gems is limited.

I may experiment with trample boots, but the gorgon can win most fights with petrification, and i fear trampling may exhaust her.

Aleph · #9 March 12th, 2007, 10:45 AM

Right. Sorry, was thinking of EA Pangea there.

People seem to be going either turmoil/luck/sloth or order/production. Any reason people aren't pushing a turmoil/luck/production/growth scenario for the best of both worlds - mass maenads backed up with incredibly heavy troops for MA?

I'm not at all an experienced Pangea player, even in SP, but it seems to me that MA Pangea has pretty decent magical versatility out of the box. Do you really need anything from your pretender but amazing scales?

Xietor · #10 March 12th, 2007, 11:39 AM

Only access to magic for MA Pangaea is earth, nature and death. And yes i like air. The gorgon requires air to be a proficient sc. low hps make her vulnerable to ranged attacks.

Also air gives her the silver hauberk, a light chest piece that gives a 80 air shield. Mistform and mirror image, along with regen ring, make her the best sc there is inside her own dominion.