Need advice - MA Nation, Strategy and Pretender

[KissBlade]

You can safely ignore a bulk of the manual suggestions. Some are more for fun than competitive while other strategies are rather outdated. Tien Chi's suggestion is solid in only offering the consort flooding strat since that was THE TC Strategy at the time. Make sure you have order 3 though and Magic 1 (I take Magic 3 because I like magic). High astral is nice because rings of wizardry are pretty sweet but a simple thug pretender and good scales can make a quick offense and let you toss up forts at key chokes a lot faster. TC's battlemagic isn't too great to be honest, but construction for boosters followed by conjuration for summons are a safe bet. The problem with strategies is Dom III strategies largely revolves around the same concepts, most of the hidden elements are more based off scenarios that you encounter. If you want more help, you'd need to offer us what your opponents are like, what settings, etc.

[vfb]

catgod savedgames/newlords/mid_bandarlog_0.2h

Nix, the God above All, King of the Dawn, God of Flames, Feeder on Impurity, Councilor of Gods
Bandar Log, Middle Era
Great Sage (Body 226, 10 hits) <- catgod is making a joke, it's really a dragon
Magic: Fire 9
Dominion 10
Scales: [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Grenade.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Grenade.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon07.gif[/img]
Awake

Erratic Expansionist

90 provinces, wraparound East-West, 3 AIs, plus an Agarthan human. Or is that a human Argatha? Default settings.

[Sombre]

Order 3, Prod 3, Heat 3, Death 2, Turmoil 2, Magic 1?

[vfb]

Almost. For me, beer == Sloth. I only wish it could provide production!

[Sombre]

Penguins provide you order though?

[Burnsaber]

Sombre said:
Penguins provide you order though?

D'oh! Penguins = Linux. Linux = Order. Thus, Penguins = Order.

[FedSlayer]

vfb and Jim Kehn are my opponents.

vfb already gave away his poistion, Jim is playing the pale ones.

[Edratman]

vfb said:
Almost. For me, beer == Sloth. I only wish it could provide production!

I wish it could provide health, wealth and happiness. I would settle for one of those TC minus 10 year spells. If beer would remove 10 years per night of consumption (I'm thinking it would be like gems, it takes several to cast the spell) I would currently be -35,678 years old, give or take a week.

[Zeldor]

FedSlayer:

If you take oracle it is because he has 0 points to buy and starts with 4 dominion. And you invest in scales. And TC can make a good use of scales. Other idea is to take worse scales and good pretender to fight and conquer provinces, I do not remember if TC can take Prince of Death.

[Sombre]

Almost everyone (if not everyone) can take PoD because he's a default pretender, much like the cyclops.

He's also the best pretender in the game, arguably. Something like smoking mirror might give him a run for his money though, I forget.