Bogarus Strat

[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.

[Jazzepi]

You're really much better off getting an awake cyclops pretender. Give him Air and Earth. You can very quickly research construction 4, equip him with a horror marking shield (the defense on it is nuts), ethereal robe, lucky dagger OR amulet of luck and he'll decimate whole armies. He's absolutely ridiculous once he starts casting mistform, summon earth power, and invulnerability, not to mention the fact with those paths he has immunity to fire, and lightning.

Jazzepi

[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.