Awaken Tarrasque?

[SlipperyJim]

Uh, yeah. Substitute "Astral" for "Sorcery" in my above post....

(Man, was I asleep when I wrote that?)

I know about the Mind Duel vulnerability, but I'm not really worried about it. Late-Age TC aren't the kings of Astral magic, really. As long as I keep Team Tarrasque away from their pretender (who is a high-powered Astral mage, but fortunately immobile), I'm not too worried.

Oh, and did I mention that I'm playing against the AI?

To be clear: I'm not pretending that Team Tarrasque is an efficient or optimized strategy. But frankly, I think that any strategy involving GoR'ed & empowered Tarrasques is likely to be an exercise in overkill anyway. I mean, if you have that much gem income to spare, haven't you already won the game?

[MaxWilson]

I was also contemplating empowering in Astral magic, for the transportation, Luck, Etherealness, and Astral Shield. Astral Shield seems like a particularly good choice for a Tarrasque given the poison aura. (Normally you'd rather have e.g. Fire Shield so that chaff units kill themselves on your fire shield, and paralyzing the chaff just slows that process down.) I'm rolling in pearls anyway in my current endgame, so empowering to S2 and then using a Crystal Coin and Ring of Sorcery should let me Gateway to the front lines; then I'll probably stick with a Ring of Sorcery and an Amulet of Resilience.

As you said, not efficient at all, but perhaps tremendously fun.

-Max

[Shovah32]

even level 1 astral mages will be able to take out an empowered tarrasque unless he's 6+ iirc.

[Nick_K]

I don't think I've ever seen the AI use astral duel, so I don't think it'll be a real danger.

[MaxWilson]

Yes, but Yomi doesn't have astral mages, and they're my big opponent in the game in question. I'm not sure about LA Man, but if they haven't got astral mages I'll use the Tarrasque there, too. EA R'lyeh is in the game but of course that's a job for Umbrals and Tartarians, and anyway they're pretty small fry.

It's just a mopping-up action at this point anyway. I'm finishing for RP reasons.

-Max