What Are the Drawbacks of High Misfortune?

[capnq]

Meglobob said: To be honest the chances of losing your lab on the 1st turn is very, very, very rare and remote. But I always buy a mage on the 1st turn just in case, as otherwise its virtually game over.

I always buy a priest first. There seem to be a lot more mercenary mages available than mercenary priests, and I've never used a pretender with no magic paths.

[Endoperez]

You can always get a propet, though.

[sector24]

My favorite part about misfortune is when you've besieged a fort and you get the lab/temple destroyed event, but it destroys your opponent's building.

[capnq]

Endoperez said:
You can always get a propet, though.

Hmm, that's a good point. But I prefer to recruit the highest level priest I have available, then boost him further as my prophet.

[Endoperez]

capnq said:

Hmm, that's a good point. But I prefer to recruit the highest level priest I have available, then boost him further as my prophet.

That's a good point. Only works if you can recruit H3 priests, of course.

[capnq]

Endoperez said:

That's a good point. Only works if you can recruit H3 priests, of course.

Huh? Other than H3->4 getting you Divine Blessing, I don't see why it "only works" at that level.

[Jazzepi]

capnq said:

Huh? Other than H3->4 getting you Divine Blessing, I don't see why it "only works" at that level.

Because turning a commander into a prophet who has H0-H2 raises him to H3. Turning a commander who is H3 into a prophet gives him H4, and the ever elusive fanaticism which is quite good in large battles.

Basically there's no reason to convert a H1-H2 priest into a prophet when you could just do it with a commander, or a scout, or some one else.

Jazzepi

[Endoperez]

Yeah. As Ulm, for example, I could make either my starting commander (shield, armor) or my starting spy (good stealth) into my prophet. A priest-prophet is just worse than either.

[capnq]

Endoperez said:

Because turning a commander into a prophet who has H0-H2 raises him to H3. Turning a commander who is H3 into a prophet gives him H4, and the ever elusive fanaticism which is quite good in large battles.

Basically there's no reason to convert a H1-H2 priest into a prophet when you could just do it with a commander, or a scout, or some one else.

OK, that makes sense. I never really looked that closely at it, and I'd assumed that making someone a prophet just increased H by 1.

I've only been playing the demo so far, and just ordered the full game yesterday. Once I have the manual to look at, I should know these things.

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Jazzepi said:

Because turning a commander into a prophet who has H0-H2 raises him to H3. Turning a commander who is H3 into a prophet gives him H4, and the ever elusive fanaticism which is quite good in large battles.

Basically there's no reason to convert a H1-H2 priest into a prophet when you could just do it with a commander, or a scout, or some one else.

Jazzepi

I've thought of a reason , but it's a very small benefit.

If the priest has several other paths, and you're planning to search for magic sites with him anyway, he'll be able to find more of those elusive H sites. A commander or scout with only H3 probably has more useful things to do than searching.