Guide to EA C'tis

MaxWilson · #1 May 27th, 2007, 08:10 PM

Excellent! That's more like it.

-Max

Lazy_Perfectionist · #2 May 28th, 2007, 07:29 PM

Is there any fatigue difference between magic scales of one and three? Or is the discount capped at 10%?

MaxWilson · #3 May 29th, 2007, 02:49 AM

The manual says it's 10% per point of magic, and I'm 80% sure I've seen it in action. Keep in mind, though, that the fatigue from spellcasting includes encumbrance as well as spell fatigue; you can reduce the spell cost by magic scales, communion, or higher path skill, but you always take the basic encumbrance cost as well. So, 30% less fatigue doesn't automatically translate to 42% more spells.

-Max

Crafty · #4 June 1st, 2007, 04:54 PM

Newbie. Tried EA C'tis with rainbow pretender ,dormant great druid. with heat +3 and some negative luck scales. Tried using bless strategy, managed to win by beating the ryleah or something. Stupid sea thing was hard to beat, decided to defend only (i got more provinces anyway ha ha), until got thesis blessing or something...

Lazy_Perfectionist · #5 June 2nd, 2007, 03:21 PM

A random SP game against Niefelheim, Sons of Winter, taught me something.

You might be able to manage, but I really don't recommend any dominion below five. You certainly have access to excellent priests, but if you run up against a cold nation, having a dominion strength of three will be brutal.

So... what's your opinions about workable dominion strengths with the C'tis?

Shovah32 · #6 June 2nd, 2007, 05:01 PM

Unless i was planning on not spreading my dominion(when i have completely destroyed my scales for example) i almost never take dominion strength below 5.

MaxWilson · #7 June 3rd, 2007, 01:32 AM

I don't usually care all that much about Dominion strength, but since I almost invariably take a master lich it's easy to boost up to 4-6. Almost never do 7+. If I were using a Dragon or something I'd probably stick to 3-5 but not below that. Basically, I'll almost never sacrifice more than 1 magic path tick or 1 scale tick for Dominion.

Note that, contrary to what the manual says, building more temples does NOT appear to increase your temple check percentage. That is, your dominion push will scale linearly with your temple of numbers and not quadratically. If this is altered in a future patch to conform to the manual (and the in-game numbers from right clicking on a temple) I would probably alter my strategy, since -1 to Dominion could be offset by investing an extra 2000 gold in temples (five temples = +10% to checks), making Dominion strength pretty much irrelevant to large empires (since it can't go above 10).

-Max