Request: Tips for LA T'ien Chi

SlipperyJim · #1 May 11th, 2007, 09:40 AM

Call me a heretic, but I don't think that LA TC is really a bless nation. Yes, the sacred cavalry are cool, but they're also cap-only and quite expensive. More importantly, the Barbarian Kings don't have any decent priests, so applying your blessing is a bit tricky.

I'd go for a minor bless and concentrate on good scales. LA TC's real strengths are its magical diversity (outstanding for a LA nation!), composite archers, and amazing cavalry that you can recruit anywhere. Minor blesses to consider are: E4 to reinvigorate your sacred mages and/or N4 to help protect your sacred units from battle afflictions.

thejeff · #2 May 11th, 2007, 09:58 AM

LA TC is the nation for a Death bless. Unlike F9 the extra afflictions part of the Death bless works with arrows, and with battle magic.
I've used W9D8.
A few rounds of fear and affliction causing arrows, then they reach your lines and hit the nasty quickened heavy cavalry.

They can get off 2 volleys of arrows with the water bless too.

jutetrea · #3 May 11th, 2007, 10:10 AM

How abominable were your scales though?

That's kind of what I mean, they seem to be a good bless chassis, but not perfect (I think higher HP or prot would make them unreal).

Then they have some cool mages, heck most of the battle mages even have decent protection, good site searching still, etc.

So, I'm torn. Bless noob, so wanted to try it out but the scales make me cringe.

I could go with a dormant GH, lvl 4 magic in everything but earth/blood, moderate scales. So, +2 atk, +2 def, 20 AS, +100 afflic, +5% regen...nothing amazing but keep ok scales and get SOME bonuses. I think the scales would be order 0, prod 0, heat/cold 3, death 3, luck 2, drain 2. Obviously rather not take death 3 or drain 2 but its a bit resource intensive. thoughts?

thejeff · #4 May 11th, 2007, 10:54 AM

I don't remember what I used. I'll try to see if I can recreate it tonight.
With the right pretender you should be able to get a good bless without crippling scales.

Rytek · #5 May 11th, 2007, 01:03 PM

Try an awake D9 Prince of death with Dominion 9. Expanding is a piece of cake and you get decent scales and a nasty bless. Dont use the prince early vs knights, lizards (curse) and crossbows. Once you equip it with a lucky pendant, blacksteel armor and shield any inde is possible. Early on put the prince in a back corner and script hold hold attack archers.

One other options if you want a better bless with better scales is a Dormant D9,N4 PoD with a dom of 6.

jutetrea · #6 May 11th, 2007, 01:10 PM

How about in relation to summons? TC has some pretty beefy summons with the soldiers, fire and rivers. Does anyone ever shift their bless strategy to take advantage of the summons? I'm not a big summoner, rather use my gems for crafting/spells...but these 3 look pretty nice. The dogs and whatever that other one is don't look as impressive.

jutetrea · #7 May 11th, 2007, 01:13 PM

I've also been generally leery about having a single path pretender, I probably use my pretender moreso than the norm for research, searching, crafting and occasionally as an SC. Haven't made a personal playstyle decision yet if I like the initial expansion generated by an SC pretender vs. the early research boost.

Jazzepi · #8 May 11th, 2007, 02:41 PM

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jutetrea said:

How about in relation to summons? TC has some pretty beefy summons with the soldiers, fire and rivers. Does anyone ever shift their bless strategy to take advantage of the summons? I'm not a big summoner, rather use my gems for crafting/spells...but these 3 look pretty nice. The dogs and whatever that other one is don't look as impressive.

I found the Celestial Soliders are quite frankly amazing. Especially with a strong water bless they have high protection and high armor.

Jazzepi