Who are the most powerful pretenders?

[Sombre]

PoD is imo the most powerful all around by quite a margin.

[chrispedersen]

Undervalued, to my mind - is the oracle - which is a great chassis for a sacred strategy (Dom 4, among other things).

I find Baphomet, Dracolich to be great for their particular niche nations.

Overall, I think PoD is most powerful, with cyclops, gorgon and Gaia good choices.

And I'm curious why no one seems to like the dragons?

[Ferrosol]

Magicless Kraken has to be up there when playing a water nation at least

[Xietor]

"PoD is imo the most powerful all around by quite a margin."

just do not attack an s nation, as solar rays is evoc 2, and will kill the pod rather quickly.

[Jazzepi]

Xietor said:
"PoD is imo the most powerful all around by quite a margin."

just do not attack an s nation, as solar rays is evoc 2, and will kill the pod rather quickly.

Or dust to dust from a death nation.

Jazzepi

[Dedas]

Or maggots...

[quantum_mechani]

I'd rate as the top pretenders:

* Gorgon
* Prince of Death
* Cylops
* Agarthan Oracle
* Wyrm
* Oracle
* Kraken
* Colossal Fetish
* Water blessers (mother of rivers, father of winters, lady of springs)

[K]

For Bless nations I tend to use whatever works, but Monoliths, Earth Mothers, and Mothers of Serpents tend to be my favorites.

PoD is an interesting SC, but its no better than a Dragon in the early game when you are killing indies. SC pretenders don't seem to last long against enemy nations, so I don't use them much.

For rainbow mages, the Lich is hands down the best since the other rainbows are so easy to kill. One Fires from Afar or Seeking Arrow and a rainbow Enchantress is down one from four or five paths (though I've turned a few Crones into Wight Mages).