Machaka – a sorcerer’s fevered arachnophobia

[Scaramuccia]

You missed spider riders.
You missed sage + research start - good research in first year, rainbow site search later.
You missed great patrol 15 eye of the lord.
You missed that 4 spiders from witch doctor that are bad ***.
You missed the whole point pd doesn't matter.

[Deathblob]

Thanks!

I understand now. Machaka will nevur win, because of teh PD and cap-only. It's like Fomoria and monkeys, all rolled into one!

[llamabeast]

I can't remember offhand all of the buffs that CBM has given to Machaka, but they are significant.

National spells of course, which I agree are (deliberately) situational. Foul Sacrifice offers an alternative strategy at least, and perhaps makes a bless strategy more viable.

Sacreds are cheaper and have improved MR (which makes them much more feasible in the long term).

PD is greatly improved.

Sorceress has magicboost in battle - that's a big deal.

IIRC a number of other costs have been reduced.

I'm sure there's other stuff (most of it done by qm rather than me), but I think Machaka is much more powerful in CBM than in base game.

[P3D]

The sacreds does not really need Bless (maybe E4N4), so points can go into scales, which synergize well with patrolling. And one would be able to buy a lot of sacreds.

The Machaka Hoplites are good as meatshields - you would be destroying enemies with evocations and fire arrows, not with infantry, and they still deal some decent damage.

It would be better if they'd get some D3 access (not 10% Randoms) on the Black Sorcerers for Banefire.

[parone]

just marking