Tuatha Race
The Sidhe are dear to my heart - my central character in Ultima Online was a Sidhe. So I've been keen to get something going with the race and while I'm not convinced I can't do better with Van here goes what I'm playing with right now.
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"The Quick or the Dead"
Blue Dragon, Water 9. Dominion 6.
Sloth 1, luck 1, magic 1.
Fortified City.
The key unit is the Daoine Sidhe warriors who work a treat with quikness and a def of 19 when blessed. The Cu Sidhe make good fast build supporting troops when you have extra gold and few resources - use with care though. For archer bait I use the starting troops plus build more axemen when needed
For early commanders I use my initial Castallien as my prophet and Sidhe Champions and monks. I tried Sidhe Lords but didn't feel I could justify the extra cost.
The Blue Dragon researches up to alteration 2 for quikness and then heads off to help the expansion. Might be better sometimes to head straight out but its seems tidier to get quickness first.
Difficult to get a good feel for the expansion rate as I'm still getting the hang of minimising casualties and what exactly you have to be afraid of. You can beat some normally hard to beat provinces but are vunerable to high attack troops and Xbow. My cleanest expansion saw me well ahead of the +1 province per turn by the 10th turn (indies 5) but with a pitiful gold income due to starting in the wastes at the bottom of the Aran map. As a consequence I didn't have enough gold to buy defenses to discourage the AI from attacking and got lured into an early war.
Overall the race looks fairly promising though the troops require great care early and the right magic support later to get the best out of them - anti-archery is important and the race has rthe right paths. A race than can get a decent start, has access to air magic, and has magic scale +1 can't be all bad.
One alternative is to run sloth2, order1, and make more use of the Cu Sidhe.
Cheers
Keir
[ November 26, 2003, 04:41: Message edited by: Keir Maxwell ]
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