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I'll be daring and investigate the copse. Forests are my friend, even if magic is limited here. Do my scrolls of greater magic also not function?

Hmmm, fair point. Chaff won't be super helpful/distracting either, will it, since mages prioritize high hp targets?

Huh, that's kinda cool. What happens if I leave and immediately return? Can I investigate the waterfall?

I'll go with the Desolation of Ilexmanan the Aggrieved.

Alright, my first neighbour is Midgard, who is running E4, N4, A4, which I would assume is keeper of the bridge. He's up to 5 provinces with me. I played around with a 1 on 1 game, and it seems like my sacred giants stack pretty darn favourably against his gp-to-gp, except for the Einheres, which ki...

Wow, lots of evil options. I'll link arms with two of them and join in. HP: 16/20 . CP: 14/14 Greaters; Holy Fires of Judgement (W) Archangel* (W), Hallowed Word (W), Tanglevines (G), Juggernaut* (G), Feeblemind (B) Counters: The Chalice of Incorruptible Life, Tower of Indomitable Will, Absorption, ...

I'll walk towards the druids and say hai!

Turn 3; 1: Marignon, Agartha, Abysia, Caelum, Ragha, 2: Man, Mictlan, Pangaea, Midgard, Utgard, Gath, Xizbala, Atlantis 3: Ulm 4: Bogarus I'm honestly shocked that 5 players aren't managing a province a turn. Also, I found 7 resource crossbowmen, which someone told me was sort of nice. Is it still s...

Graphs are on. Turn 2, Bogarus went up to 3 provinces, Ragha, Caelum, Agartha all stayed at 0 provinces, and everyone else (Xibala, Atlantis, Gath, Pangaea, Midgard, Abysia, Man, Ulm, Marignon, Mictlan) takes 1 province. That's very, very clever about the calvary, actually, though I still think I pr...

Fair enough. Also, is there a list of Thrones special hidden effects? I know Darkness causes darkness and winter/cold cause cold, but I am reading an AAR which says the throne of war causes extra barbarian attacks.

I'm running...not quite a hexcrawl, but a zone crawl. For me, I try to make each zoned varied but themed; a forest with a goblin tribe, ancient druidic ruins, and a couple small dungeons a plains haunted by an ancient bard, kobold tribes, and old fey ruins a shadow lake filled with undead, a vampire...

Alright, new mage; Wizard, the Wizard. Greaters; Holy Fires of Judgement (W) Archangel* (W), Hallowed Word (W), Tanglevines (G), Juggernaut* (G), Feeblemind (B) Zones, note for me Sacred Grove (3+2), Forest of Arden (1+1), Gardens of Contemplation (2+1) Counters: The Chalice of Incorruptible Life, T...

Adjacent to my capital is a Throne; Sorcerer; B3, D1, lots of blood slaves, 4 death gems Circle Master; 2/2, 5 death gems, 8 blood slaves 2* Conjurer; 1/1, few death gems, lots of blood slaves 3 Mounter Commanders 11 Heavy Calvary 14 Light Calvary 19 Militia 12 Heavy Infantry Is there a test mode wh...

Oh, nice, okay. Didn't realize even things like that had the exploding die on them.

Are the communion and sabbath split or merged? Like, if I have 4 S2 mages cast Communion Slave, are they in a communion seperate from the Sabbath Master? Or does the Sabbath Master join the communion.

2 questions; With N2 (and rarely N3), I'd need a thistle mace to cast Growing Fury on the N2 guys, right? It'd be 3 gems (1 for spell, 2 to boost 2 levels) and you can only use 1 gem/level/spell, right? Black Hearts are a neat idea, and I didn't know about the giant soulless. Am I reading the descri...

Sure, I'll post in my thread later today/or tomorrow morning with a new mage.

I'm with Darth Rabbit. Alchemize wings and take cloak. Then go on hard quest.

I got 2 private messages, and one was Midgard in public in the discord chat.

Okay, playing on reddit is super odd, apparently a decent number of people are exchanging starting locations via PM so people have a better map of the world. Graphs are also on. I strongly suspect this means people won't scout, which means I'm going to scout a lot to try to get an advantage. But wha...

Huh, I should have figured. I appreciate it. Also, hope I don't spawn near you, because you know way more about this game than I do.

Appreciate the thoughts, as always. Assessing pretenders; Man; The Everburning One, God of the Wind and the Hoe, Feeder on Impurity, King of the Soil. Rainbow; Fire, Air, Nature? Earth Ulm; King of this World, Prince of Disease, Prince of Blood, Master of Death and Rebirth, Prince of the Harvest. De...

Okay; and I haven't looked at most of the other LA nations, so I will now. Quick look at my total magic diversity; So I've got easy access to S3, D3, W3, B3, N2 --- 4 x 3 and a 2, 14 pts total. LA Man; Good player, prefers scales and not bless; A3 , E2, S2, F1, D1, human sized troops. 9 pts total. F...

Alright, me continuing to think about this and plan; Jotun Skratti; 255gp, recruit anywhere, STR; W2, B2, +100% pick of W/B/N/D. In terms of the water suite; Out of battle summons; easy access to Vile Water (Gelatinous Cubes), Sea Trolls and Sea Kings, Naiad and Naiad Warriors, Stream of Hades (Jotu...

Perfect, really appreciate the thoughts. I've played test games with both and am really not noticing much of a difference in survivability of the Garmharmdig, and they do kill faster. Follow up question; in both my test games, I seem to end up with a lot of money, even putting down forts with temple...

E9 puts Garmhirding protection from 12--->16, which makes them super hard to kill, doesn't it? Plus gets me access to earth, which I'm under the impression is a suite I generally don't want to be without, for buffs and forging and summons?

Also, somewhere along the line were "what to do with each gem" posts, but I forget where. Anyone got a link? Frank wrote them, they were excellent.