Bogarus Strat

[Humakty]

As boots of youth are reinvigorating the mage too, they're not that bad of an investment. Plus ten slaves isn't much to nullify effect of old age, as you control(raise) your slave output much more easily your gem output. As long as a nation has efficient blood hunters, there is no need for growth 3. 120 creation points is too costly if you have another solution available (in your nation) for old age problem. BoY do use a slot though...

[Illuminated One]

Originally Posted by vfb

There's also not a whole lot gained by taking growth-3 without order-3 (or production-3, though that's less useful in the long run). You might as well just take growth-1.

I disagree.
Yes, you loose that big o-3 bonus to extra gold.
But g-1 is much less powerful because of exponential growth dynamics.
If I had 4 scales to max gold income over the whole game it would be o-1 g-3.

[vfb]

Originally Posted by Illuminated One

I disagree.
Yes, you loose that big o-3 bonus to extra gold.
But g-1 is much less powerful because of exponential growth dynamics.
If I had 4 scales to max gold income over the whole game it would be o-1 g-3.

Your gold is coming in later in O-1 G-3, and the early game is when you really need gold the most. And G-3 is not going to be looking so hot in the late game when Armageddons hit the world and the corpses start piling up in the streets.

In any case, I agree with Jazzepi, an awake god is going to get Bogarus more provinces faster than scales alone will.