[SPOILERS] The Subjuggulator's Mirthful Messiahs (Kuro, Gamzee of Balsegraphs!)

[Kuro]

Yes. Obviovously also some earlish hero with channeling III should be quite high in your priorities.

Of those, there's Gibbon, Hemah(Not really early though, is it?) and Chalid. Am I missing any?

[Mist]

Of those, there's Gibbon, Hemah(Not really early though, is it?) and Chalid. Am I missing any?

Point to note - Chalid is a priest, not a wizard. He can't take new spell spheres.

[Kuro]

Point to note - Chalid is a priest, not a wizard. He can't take new spell spheres.

Oh.

[Ichabod]

Your start:

[Kuro]

This doesn't seem like a bad start. In fact, it seems pretty damn good.

We have a nice riverside agriculture resource in Rice, two Calender resources and we can grab Wines @ Crafting.

Maybe we should go Calender first, then maybe Crafting -> Ancient Chants -> Mysticism? Even with the AH food resources, it's not worth getting this early I think...

We can already see a mana node too, yay!

Not sure about that dungeon though. Scary scary~

[plako]

Nice and green indeed. Bit more hills that I got in my test games using Rainforest script. so maybe they've added them manually.

You've excellent scouting tools so better use them before making the settling desicion. However based on just what is visible settling in place is definately ok. Alternatively you could settle above Pigs especially, if you're going for mainly farms and aristocracy and don't lose much with moving.

Unorthodox cottage spamming could also work with this start. Settling in place is better then since you need the food from pigs and get AH faster with better early economy. There also seems to be 2*pigs in the SE so maybe you want AH a bit faster than normally so settling above the pigs might be a bit less appealing because of this.

Naturally few cottages to speed up your way to aristocracy and other economic techs is useful in every case. I don't remeber too well the the tech tree or what is Balsepraphs starting tech (maybe Ancient Chants), but I think you need Agriculture 1st. Then Crafting and/or Calendar unless you think you need God king+elder council, but I think you can do without them for a while.

Assuming lot of mana nodes and some Emphasis on Magic line Tower victory is probably the easiest to reach.

[Kuro]

Balsegraphs start with Agriculture.

[Amelia]

My advice would be to settle in place, and get calender immediately, with a worker start. Your adept is capable enough of defending against early barbs, along with your warrior. That is a Dungeon, which won't spawn barbs, thankfully.

This is a fantastic spot, and you need that worker out before the game started :neenernee to improve it =)

[Kuro]

90% sure I'll do that, but might as well move scoot and stuff first.

[Kuro]

Alright, turn is IN.

Ordinarily, you might think we were Perpentach...but no. MY splash screen will tell you who the MOTHERFUCK we are.

WELCOME TO THE DARK CARNIVAL, BROTHER

do you know who I am
DO YOU KNOW WHO THE MOTHERFUCK I AM



i am the mirthful messiahs
AND I AM TOO

gonna subjuggulator all of you motherfuckers
GONNA PAINT THE FUCKING WALLS WITH YOUR MOTHERFUCKING BLOOD
it'll be beautful
I MIGHT DO IT FUCKING TWICE
hey what are you doing with that k-

...

Ehehehe. Right, sorry. Gamzee got ahold of the keyboard again.

But yeah, that would be me. GAMZEE MOTHERFUCKING MAKARA, leader of the Subjuggulators.

Here's the Settings...



Blah blah blah yadda yadda, not much special to see here.

The start got posted already, so I'm going to scout first before I do. Specifically, Floating Eye.



Pretty obvious we are meant to settle in place. I see no reason to change that.



Here's our lands more to the south, by the way.

Lots of mana nodes. I think we should forget God King and Mysticism for a while. Something like Calender(Mmmm, riverside Reagents), Crafting(Wines!), Mining, BW and start clearing out that jungle by the gems. Settle where you can get Pigs/Mana Node/Gems/Rice, good commerce.

So I Settle in place...



WELCOME TO THE DARK CARNIVAL, BROTHER.

I sent the Warrior towards the dungeon for scouting and then fortify my Adept at home. I probably should of consulted more, but I honestly wanted to play the first turn totally solo and see if I did it right.



I was going to write something meaningful here, but I got busy. Oh well.



Dunno what to do here.