Guide to MA Agartha (In prog) - Pretenders

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Actually, I'm glad to hear you disagree with me.

Does Conjuration 3 do you any good, though, if you haven't opened up any other paths, and are facing troops to large to trample?

Of course, if you're facing water blessed giants, destruction doesn't hurt as much since you're capped at 10 attack with your standard troops. Then a ranged attack starts looking a bit better. Standard giants, though, destruction looks like it could be quite useful, armor of achilles... Since Jotun focuses more on quality than numbers, individual target spells are more effective than they would be against, say, Ctis.

[atul]

Conjuration? Black Servants in trinket armour!

Seriously, conjuration may be only secondary target, but never forget to go to Earth Power - else you'll be wasting a hell of a lot of earth gems for bigger spells like Earth Grip or Destruction. Magma Bolts can be done unaugmented, though.

And, water-blessed giants? I'd wager you're more probably seeing earth/nature bless, but in any case, anything that can be swarmed by size 2 units isn't probably going to rely on defence for too long.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Black Servants? Sorry, you haven't found any death gems.

But definetly, I agree conjuration is a necessary target. If nothing else, it allows your earth readers to spend one gem and cast Earth Meld, or spam Earth Grip.

I'm really going to have to try the armor of achilles against Jotunheim. I hadn't even thought of that possibility, and i'm up against a low-level quad-bless right now, with Jotunheim sitting on my capital.

[mathusalem]

just one more thing : iron dragon benefits of Golem Cult too

[moderation]

HoneyBadger said:
On the subject of growth-I'd suggest never taking growth scales in combination with misfortune-over the long term, the misfortune generally cancels out any benefit from the growth.

How does misfortune cancel the benefits of growth? Do the two scales synergize in nasty ways?

[ano]

Misfortune causes nasty events that kill population. That was the point, probably.

[calmon]

moderation said:

How does misfortune cancel the benefits of growth? Do the two scales synergize in nasty ways?

When choosing growth are normally combine it with order just to get a better "income per people" ratio for my growing population. Normally i choose misfortune (rarely even luck) and i can say that misfortune has no big negative effect on population in this case.
Maybe because growth 3 influence the population killing negative events and don't let them happen much.