Good High Bless strat for EA C'tis in MP ? - Page 2

BigDisAwesome · #11 March 5th, 2007, 11:04 PM

What really interests me is the Scorpian Man you can summon at Conjuration 8. The only problem is you have no access to Earth or Fire Magic without a little indie luck. They're so good though, it's almost worth giving your pretender E2 to pump out Earth Boots and either 4 fire or a combination of fire and other magic paths to make a fire booster.
I think i'm bout to go see what kinda scales I could have to get a F1/W9/E2/N4 pretender. brb

So lets see here. You could take an imprisoned Crone with 4F/9W/4E/1D/4N and still have enough points left to get a dominion of 6 order2/sloth3/heat3/magic1.
Perhaps it'd be better to get some luck in there for more gems though since you're not gonna be able to start effectively site searching for fire and earth gems til your god comes out.

It's a bit of a long shot, but if you could survive til about turn 40ish you could get the Scorpian Man machine started. What do ya guys think?

Valandil · #12 March 5th, 2007, 11:21 PM

Personnaly, I've always liked the scorpion man. It doesn't seem to be strong enough to base a strategy around though.

BigDisAwesome · #13 March 5th, 2007, 11:33 PM

Lets see here... Abysia and C'tis are the only 2 nations that can summon them right? Looks like I'd be a lot better off modifying that plan for Abysia.

FAJ · #14 March 5th, 2007, 11:43 PM

I don't think its sound to base a strategy around a summon, especially one as high as conj 8.

C'tis just doesn't benifit from high bless.

smu666ler · #15 March 6th, 2007, 12:01 AM

Yeah it seems I will forget the high bless probably altho I will try KissBlade's F9/W9 Disk, before sending out. If I take a wyrm is S1 worth it for Body Etherial? It's just one scale down ... Many interesting suggestions here for sure

FAJ · #16 March 6th, 2007, 12:03 AM

I was under the impression that having S1 on a pertender was dangerous due to magic duel?

smu666ler · #17 March 6th, 2007, 01:02 AM

Hmm never thought of that ... man this game is HUGE. I'm not even scratching the surface yet =)

RamsHead · #18 March 6th, 2007, 01:20 AM

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KissBlade said:
f9/w9 Solar Disk with sloth 3/death 3 is easily doable with serpent dancers and it's not bad at all actually. I should point out, Ctis also gets sacred summons as well so consider adding those into your game. I know qm takes blesses one step further and goes f9/w9/a4 to really push it but it was too expensive for my tastes. However, the dancers really shouldn't be underestimated.

I don't think anyone is saying that Serpent Dancers are bad, just that basing a bless strategy around them is bad. With a f9w9a4 bless, they are still too vulnerable to archers, which those taking on C'tis will be using alot of to take advantage of C'tis's lack of missle units. It might be a somewhat useful strategy for blitzes, but even in them it is a dangerous strategy to pull off.

GameExtremist · #19 March 6th, 2007, 02:20 AM

*double post*

GameExtremist · #20 March 6th, 2007, 02:41 AM

I've just started playing C'tis in a EA mp game, I went with a SC pretender (deliberately vague incase one of my co-players is reading

)with high water scales and very high dom, I intend to use the sauromancers and focus on death magic, at first I wasn't that impressed with their national troops, but falchineers are quite effective at taking out indies, dual falchions ftw!

So far so good, taking lots of ground...though it's only turn 5

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Like others have said before, I don't think C'tis is suited to a bless strategy, I think a heavy focus on death magic is the way to go