LA Atlantis, another thread looking for tips

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Retractions and apologies.
Your enchanted ice armor isn't considered magic armor to the game... Ice armor will break under conditions of iron bane.

[normalphil]

The Arssartut are the swiss pikemen of Dominions. They've got the morale and footspeed to weather arrowstorms and can pull down anything they engage, from dragonflies to doom horrors. Bone Glaives combined with their racial type have them being viable shock infantry where compariably costed sacreds are bless chaffe. I've developed total faith in them.

Of course, my favored LE Atlantis pretender is an imprisoned Lich with a D9W9 bless. But that's Inuit mythology in a nutshell.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Dayumm... Arssartut are awesome. Now, by accident, I've avoided playing any bless nation, but when you have 18 provinces by the end of late winter (in a practice game, roomy map, independent 5), that's a noted success. My total upkeep at the end of the first year? 199. My secret? That will have to wait just a little bit. I'll be starting a game next week. I will say it involves blesses- but is not solely dependent on it.

[Valandil]

hidden in snow can actually be used by atlantis in LE for diversification, though I wouldn't try it too much. Also, send tupilak is a pretty neat asssasination spell, and Catoblepas with death gaze can be pretty fun as well.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

I have to agree. Send Tupilak is a nice assassination spell though a little expensive for comfort.

As you can't equip it, it is rather poor at handling crowds, thanks to its low attack and defense.

On the plus side
A solid magic resistance of 12 protects them from indie priests. One tupilak, although undead, can take down most priests.

Excellent hitpoints. They can shrug off firebolts, and most area affect spells actually work to your advantage. For instance, leeching darkness and fireball often kill off via 'friendly fire' those bodyguards your tupilak couldn't.

Excellent Strength - offset by the lack of any weapons, but good enough to kill typical humans.

They will usually be torn down by five bodyguards, but can take down many unprotected mage/priests.