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Originally Posted by Executor
Also, the race for the artifacts kinda got well much less important.
Even if you manage to hit construction 8 first it doesn't matter as you certainly won't have enough gems to make proper boosters and than the important stuff you need/want, even with very high site frequency which coshes more problems that it solves.
The thing about rushing to const 8 was that you had to sacrifice a lot to get there first. If you rush construction and get attacked in the meantime there's a good chance you won't ever make it there as you'll be dead since you wasted research on construction rather than summons and battle spells to defend or attack.
And even if you hit construction 8 first, ok, you managed to get a few good artifacts before you blew all your gems away, so now what?
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Yea. This is what happened to C'tis in the game we are in BTW. They had awesome research. Highest of any nation by a good margin. But terrible everything else. And when I attacked them the best thing they could put up against me was skelly spam, witch I was prepared for and could counter. They must have bet it all on the artifact/Tart race and spent all that research on construction/conjuration.
And yea. I think I was the third guy to get const 8 and there were still many useful artifacts left by then.
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Originally Posted by WraithLord
If the majority of nations don't particularly care about Tartarians because they have other options, then there won't be such a rush to the Chalice...it'll just be a race among the Death-centric nations, most of which have other options as well. Right?"
That is a big if and remains to be seen. That said, I tend to think this is exactly what will happen, but here there's something much better than speculation: just wait a bit for real MP feedback re. post 1.8 Tarts.
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Tartarians are actually kind of meh right now unless you have the chalice or GoH up.
In the same game I have actually had both the research and the mages to summon tartarians for a couple of turns now. But because I have neither of the above ways of healing them, I have felt that my mages and boosters time were more usefully spent doing other things.
Like sending ghost riders at people. I never quite understood why they halved the cost of it. Those things are nasty!