Request: Tips for LA T'ien Chi

[jutetrea]

Well after playing around a bit more in SP I think I like the rainbow strategy so far. A moderate bless of 4F/4E/4N/4D works well, just not sure if I should ditch air/astral or go 4A/2S or 2A/4S on the pretender. This is with a ghost king, so there are side benefits as well - ok SC with items, ghost production, 20+ research and site searching. Lich is nice for immortality, great enchantress for 1 gem/turn (not real nice), or sage for even more research.

I've been wanting to try LA TC with a bless for a bit, but with a large game I dont think the synergy is great enough for a huge jump. shrug.

[thejeff]

I used something like this:

Imprisoned Master Lich
Water 9
Death 8

Dominion 6

Order 3
Production 0
Heat 0
Growth 0
Misfortune 2
Drain 2

Shift the scales around as you prefer, you only need one negative scale, which isn't bad at all. Drain hurts, but you can do both quills and skull mentors, so it's not that bad.

It may not be the most effective bless, but the Water is, as usual, brutal and the death works very well with Late TC.

It's not so much that death is the best bless for TC, as that TC is the best nation for the death bless.
All your mages are sacred, so they benefit from the affliction chance. The sacreds are one of the few sacred archers and they have those cool fear bows, so I had to find a way to make it worthwhile to use them.
I don't know how they'd stack up in MP. They're not Vans or Neifels and they are capital only, so they'll lose effectiveness eventually. I'll bet SCs will still fear the affliction bonus, though.

[Jazzepi]

I really like the idea of using blade wind with a self-blessed W9D8 priest battle mage as a retreating affliction crippling anti-invasion technique.

Here's what I'd do to script some PD backed up mages.

Summon Earth Power, Bless, Blade Wind, Blade Wind, Retreat

Jazzepi

[MaxWilson]

Just keep in mind that afflictions are more psychological warfare than an invasion-stopper. In practice, Leprosy will probably create more afflictions than the D9 battle mage. However, the battle mage doesn't cost gems.

-Max

[Rytek]

I played around a bit with it last night as well. Ooops, can't get a PoD. After playing with it a bit, I agree that the way to go is minor bless.

[jutetrea]

So, the timer is running and I've got to make up my mind. Anyone want to chime in?

either
master lich - master lich gets a discount on death by starting at 3, but is weak yet immortal
or
Ghost King - stealthy, ethereal and can SC with items, ghost production

All Dom 5, dormant
Good Scales with minor rainbow
2 Order, 2 Prod, 3 Heat, 1 Growth, 2 Luck, 2 Drain
M Lich 4F,4W,4D,4N
GK 1F,4W,4D,4N
or
medium scales with medium rainbow
0 Order, 0 Prod, 2 Heat, 1 Growth, 2 Luck, 2 Drain
M. Lich 4F,1A,4W,1E,4S,4D,4N
GK 4F,4W,4D,4N + 2(A or E or S)
or
turmoil/luck scales with good rainbow
3 Turmoil, 0 Prod, 3 Heat, 1 Growth, 3 Luck, 2 Drain
M Lich 4F,4A,4W,3E,4S,4D,4N
GK 4F,4A,4W,1E,3S,4D,4N

I'd like to lean towards the GK, I hate imprisoned, and I like luck, minor bless priorities would be death, water, nature, fire, other

[jutetrea]

After writing that all out I'm leaning towards turmoil GK or good scales ML (top and bottom choices)