Titan pretenders

[Edi]

Old Man of the Sea and Lord of the Waves would be titans if they had full horseman slots (i.e. 2 hand, head, body, 2 misc), but they and the mothere of monsters are missing the body slot, which is in my opinion a significant handicap. So they are monsters like the Scorpion King, unless the pathcost is 30 or less (Old Man, Mother of Monsters) to make them a rainbow.

I just noticed that Allfather is also a rainbow pretender due to pathcost.

[JimMorrison]

Ah okay, so you are classifying them purely by functionality then. Makes sense, and leaves me nothing to say but thanks again.

[Omnirizon]

I always thought 20 or less was contingent for rainbow classification.

[Edi]

That's up to personal preference. I chose 30, because all the units that have pathcost 30 already have at least two paths so adding a couple more low level ones isn't too expensive. But it is arbitrarily chosen. It could be 20 and it would be no problem.

A note about the Lawgiver: Listed as Rainbow despite pathcost 50 due to having a physical rainbow chassis and 3 paths to start with. Otherwise it would not fit in any category.

[thejeff]

I'll often use the Titans.

If I've got troops good enough that I don't feel I need an SC for early expansion/defense, then I'll often want a sleeping SC pretender for the mid-game who can also add magic diversity my nation lacks. Unless I'm looking for Earth or Death the standard Cyclops/PoD are far from the cheapest options. A rainbow (or even a lich) could get the paths cheaper, but can't play the SC role. With buffs and equipment any Titan can. And usually once he's done some summoning/forged some critical boosters, it's no longer a disaster if he dies and loses paths.

This is probably sub-optimal in many ways, mostly by being expensive. I play MP, but that doesn't mean I'm good at it.

[Endoperez]

I've been in the same situation. I want some spesific path or combination of paths, and a titan pretender is the most cost-effective chassis, but I'm still reluctant to take it because it's so expensive for, relatively speaking, so little.

[MaxWilson]

Titan pretenders would be good as SCs, but I hate SC pretenders because to me it feels like putting all your eggs in one basket. I generally go for bless or utility chassises (utility = can cast some useful global or increase magic diversity, usually with good scales).

-Max