[SPOILERS] Balseraphs: A Guide to Mis-Management (by Kyan and TT)

[Kyan]

Sheaim land:



Notice the lack of food resources.... Nicolae wasn't as complimentary about Ravus as i was :neenernee

Also, our lovely new city:



Harry Crack will be a lovely city. Elohim and Grigori have two cities. Nicolae has one. We are not far from a fourth.

[Kyan]

We are owed plenty of mana now.

2 from Hippus and 2 from Sheaim. However, we need trade routes first. In FfH, does defogging a coastal route and learning sailing do the trick?

[Kyan]

Two questions for those in the know:

1. Can freaks be upgraded to adepts?

2. Can adepts use the arena?

If it's no to both, i will be sad.

[Krill]

Summon types:

Water, S8M1, can split into new summons, +1 water
Fire, S6M2 +3frirecombat, +1 fire, 30% collateral damage (max)
Air, S5M2 +2lighteningcombat, +1 air,
Earth, S11M1, +1 Earth
Death, Wraith (S6, +3deathcombat, M2, +1death)
Shadow, Mistform, (S6M2, +1 Shadow)
Body, Flesh Golem (Bit crap)
Meta, Djinn (S1M2, +1 everything)
Sun, Aurealis (S6M1, +2 sun)

You know, considering we have 4 mana and the Mirror we could feasibly get the Aurealis up to S16, add in puppets and Spell Extension and That could be an evil bastard of a summon to deal with. Actually, considering that we have puppets, we're always going to get +1 move, at least, on all summons, so extra speed on the summons isn't that great a deal for us.

Still think Water is the way to go though, simple for the flexibility of throwing away so many units every turn, and using the remaining units to defend a stack. I still think we can grab vitalize at some point via mana loans, and potentially free promotions (with SotC we can get to Twincast at 17XP). Fire we could use for some fireball mages, and fire adepts to burn down the jungle but we can get that easily via trade now. Air1 we are basically garranteed already, Air 2 is doable if I can prise it out of the elves fingers along with Nature mana, but I don't see any reason to limit ourselves on Air. Metamagic we won'tbe getting prior to Gibbon, so that's out, but Sun mana is perfectly viable, and all 3 spells are pretty solid. Probably just going to go with a few scorh/blinding light mages though.

TBH, I think the one thing that kills hte idea of a fire3 archmage is that it's already been done, and that it does have a fairly limited amount of collateral, which water elementals could fairly easily beat. Earth elementals are just slow Mistforms, however, could be really cool...

[Kyan]

Who needs mistforms when you have Nox Noctis?

We're going Esus anyhoo so it makes sense. If mistforms were permanent, i'd see invisibility as better, but it won't be a surprise to see them all pop up once they see Gibbon.

Sun and water are the two i like the looks of best personally. Air is an easy loan from Rawkking and we have one of our own for a free promo. Good luck with the elves, you have no chance in my opinion. More importantly though, we have to try and get trade routes up.

[Krill]

Nox noctis works only in yours own lands.

Mistforms blocking enemy roads when you are invading OTOH

[darrelljs]

1. Can freaks be upgraded to adepts?

No .

2. Can adepts use the arena?

No .

Darrell

[darrelljs]

Why the focus on Arcane summons only?

Darrell

[Krill]

Esus has good priest summons?

I think I can see two problems with that.

[Square Leg]

Esus has good priest summons?

I think I can see two problems with that.

Esus doesn't have priests. You get nightwatchmen instead - a longbow alternative.