Fun fact, blood bond doesn't pop glamour too. Limited usefulness if their defence drops by 7, but still Anyway the real reason that you can take berserk with Vanheim and have it actually work is because berserk never affects mounted units, and all your sacred mages are mounted (yes, I know this is a Sauromatia pretender design vid...Lucid started it)

I LOVE the luck 3 scales. Gonna make it an even more enjoyable playthrough.

Love Sauromatia. Played my first multiplayer game as them, got 40 provinces by turn 25 (then got wrecked by Mekone because I didn't know how to counter earthquake).Swiftness can be dangerous in expansion (arguably the oiorpatas' most important role). Hit only half with the first bless and they charge in by their lonesome and take way more hits. You could leave them on hold and attack but that leaves your warrior sorc vulnerable to archers if they're in the front and vulnerable to attack rear if they're in the back. Also, 5 oiorpatas with a rainbow bless can take on about 40 or so barbs once you have awaken tattoos, something to consider, though it's unlikely to come online before turn 15.

is it just me or is the sound a bit weird on this video?

@LucidTactics

4 жыл бұрын

yeah there is some clipping on the first couple videos - it was really bad on the national overview so i recorded it. EP 1 has some issues too but not as bad. Should be fine after that.

@romulusnuma116

4 жыл бұрын

@@LucidTactics Is this a tradition with Blitz? I remember you having audio issue in other one as well

@bodyguardik

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. I tested it on 2 headsets and one set of speakers... "Liked" it anyway btw )

@LucidTactics

4 жыл бұрын

@@romulusnuma116 yeah - sound balancing for blitzes is pretty hard. this is also when i changed recording software and had to figure some stuff out. (there was a splotch in newcasting where the audio was really bad - it overlaps with this in real life time, probably have another series that was mid recording then). you can see the national overview was a lot better though cause i figured it out and current recordings are smooth ;)

@LucidTactics

4 жыл бұрын

@@bodyguardik Thanks cant say it deserves a like with the clipping!!

one less astral can get you one more scale too.... (in relation to, when you looked to take only minor MR instead of a major one)

All hail the pretender god of sauromatia Three Crones one eye 😈

I think the Fire&Shock resists + Barkskin + Twist Fate bless would be pretty hard to deal with too, switch twist fate for fateweaving and add bloodbond for extra blend.

@LucidTactics

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah for vanheim would be good!

@DrQuackzalver

4 жыл бұрын

@@LucidTactics Hah, it would be harder to justify on Sauromatia. Vanhere hits so hard to begin with, Oiropata on the other hand needs help in multiple areas.

E/S crosspath also lets you spend pearls to make golems, which are S2. Not good for communions at 30 per, but you can put a skullcap on it and cast power of spheres to get some useful astral magic off in battles, and they're competent as heavy thugs or something to block mind hunts. Expanders are a nice year 1-2 deterrent and get you provinces. I took one in a recent game since the players didn't have a lot of underwater presence, so it got me 9 UW provinces in addition to a faster initial clear for resources in cap. But this game is 6 players, yes. Luck scales can help break into other paths too, but not as reliably as just taking them on pretender. Less expensive for awake monsters than new paths though.

@LucidTactics

4 жыл бұрын

we have thugs that can go UW! also theres a formoria this game, so UW contesting can be dangeous!

@TheMelnTeam

4 жыл бұрын

@@LucidTactics Yeah I picked it in the context of what I knew I'd face in my game. I wouldn't pick an expander for UW in yours. I do think there's something to be said for expanders that can function as rush deterrent though. Especially for nations like EA R'lyeh which can also make kicking off the coastal footholds too pricey in year 1, but even in general there are a lot of nations that just don't have > 20 damage units recruitable in year 1-2 to deal with it, and that's a bargaining chip/deterrent. After that the expander is basically dead weight other than maybe casting a global or two...or possibly remote searching a path you don't have elsewhere, so you are paying some scales and path diversity for a safer early game and maybe a few extra provinces. It's hard to quantify the value of this, but if it influences initial diplo targeting/alliances or wins an important choke it did its job. Obviously depends on nation too. EA Sauro doesn't strike me as a pick that needs the help, and it can put down *most* early aggression. I'd need to test them out before committing but if I had to start a game with them today w/o practicing I'd probably go scales. Luck is a legit scale just for path diversity under scales builds, in addition to its impact on income in general per your video with Sir Toma's tests. The booster items you get can be really nice.

for some reason I keep reading Sauromatia as Stigmata

So when will you do a berserker blood-bond match ?

No magic weapons for the sacreds? I guess you are expecting to equip Warrior Sorcs and counter-thug Mistform with them?

@LucidTactics

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah basically. I'm going to be having lots of ways to kill things.

How are you getting bless points with less than 4 in a path?

@LucidTactics

4 жыл бұрын

if you have 3 in each of (F/A/W/E) or (N,S,D,B) you dont need 4... only 3!

@AugustVonpetersborg

4 жыл бұрын

@@LucidTactics :O thanks

@Madhattersinjeans

4 жыл бұрын

@@AugustVonpetersborg And some nations have a bonus to certain magic paths so you can get a bless for spending even less points in those. They're not that common though.

@TheGahta

3 жыл бұрын

@@Madhattersinjeans You stil need to hit the threshold of 3 in all 4, or 4 in the path itself to get the bonus