Newb SC help (demo)

[Burnsaber]

Take a awake Prince of Death with Death magic7, Domstrenght 9 and whatever scales you can afford as Kailaisa. He can nuke any independent province without archers with ease from turn 1.

Forge him a Black steel Plate (5 earth gem trinket armor) and he can take any independent force. Research construction and just add more stuff to him.

[Cor2]

Its hard to build a truly badass SC in the demo, because your research levels don't permit the best arifacts and chassies.

What burn saber said above will work. here is another option: Take a wyrm with dominion 10. When you can forge him two horned helms. you may want to give him water 2 so he can cast quicken self (or is it water one??) Good against indies. Dragons are also good.

Oh, and always remeber fatigue fighting items. Fatigue is the number one killer of SCs.

[Sir_Dr_D]

You can also use Kings of the Deep as Atlantis. They can make good SC's.

[Twan]

Use the Dagon pretender of Atlantis, give him water 9 for defence, dominion 9 or 10 for awe, and you have the best early game SC (able to take alone and naked most indie provinces even with high indie strength), and once equiped he's also one of the good SC for late game as he don't have the limited number of slots wyrms/dragons get.

[Sir_Dr_D]

Twan said:
Use the Dagon pretender of Atlantis, give him water 9 for defence, dominion 9 or 10 for awe, and you have the best early game SC (able to take alone and naked most indie provinces even with high indie strength), and once equiped he's also one of the good SC for late game as he don't have the limited number of slots wyrms/dragons get.

The Dagon rocks. So far he is my favorite Pretender in the game.

[Amhazair]

Sir_Dr_D said:
You can also use Kings of the Deep as Atlantis. They can make good SC's.

Yep, absolutely. Within the confines of the demo you could script summon earthpower (conj2) ironskin (alt3) quicken self (alt2) iron will (Thau3) and fire shield (ench3) and with your national mages forge stuff like fire/frost brand, some random shield, armor and helmet (possibly fire plate/charcoal shield/black steel helmet), boots of giant strength, lucky charm and amulet of magic resistance. With help of indy mages and/or your pretender you could switch in horror helmet, ring of regeneration, chain mail of displacement and boots of the messanger, and you're not too far away from a setup that would kickass in the full game too. For a bit of variety you could also use boots of the behemoth and literaly crush your foes underfoot. If you go this route try to add in some more fatigue recovery (amulet of resilience?) and defensive items (lucky coin? faithful? possibly two shields and no weapon)

[sector24]

Is it me or do Boots of the Behemoth negate the Frost/Fire Brand AE? Whenever I use the boots my SCs don't swing their sword, they just knock everything around, so the AE never goes off.

[thejeff]

Yes, units with trample will trample anything smaller than themselves instead of using their weapons. Weapons will still be used on targets of the same size or larger.

That's why he suggested the possibility of 2 shields and no weapon if you use the boots.

[Cor2]

Exactly, I suggest two sheilds on a size 6 trampler. and Possibly a stone bird.