The new rulers for the archfey expansion, should they have a double form: humanoid with wings for peace times or when benevolent (i.e. winx), and monstrous type when angry or at war (i.e mothra)?
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Looks like specifically about the hippodrome and Justinian.
In this community I often read how backward ottoman Europe was, and how ottomans tended to oppress Christians. But I was reading that Greeks, Armenians and other Christian communities accumulated enormous wealth through commerce and other activities. How do you reconcile these notions? Were the elites in Constantinople indifferent to the state their fellow rural citizens were living in?
I was lucky and cheated a tiny bit so beware.
The build: I used sirons who gets strengthened when hit by magic damage, nomads scavengers, battlesaint wizard king, Umbral disciples (which I didn’t really need).
I had to cheat with barentz at the beginning to check where the obelisks are because there aren’t many of them. I found just 3 really usable. Also if you get an Umbral infestation next to your city restart.
So first, you need to go straight to the west, don’t bother fighting pick ups, you’re too weak now. You’ll find an obelisk before Merlin gets it, activate it, then you find Karissa portal, where you get a good unit and there is another obelisk, and teleport back to your city.
Don’t go to war with Nekron at the beginning, you can’t afford it.
Then head straight east where you’ll find the final obelisk to activate. You’ll have now found the secret portal next to the ruined tower in the center of the map, but the army you need to defeat to enter is way too strong so wait. Around this final obelisk you can find the portals of Arachna and Fangir which add good units to the rally of the lieges.
Now clean up nodes and infestations around your city to build your economy. You don’t even need to move other portals into your city, the one by Karissa is the best for resources.
When the leviathan tentacles awake, I left it to Merlin because he was already around it. He took forever to bind it but you should not care. Now plan to head northeast of your city where the eyes will awake. When that happens, it will spawn an enormous amount of marauders that I lured away with a scout, keep him close enough to lure them but not too close so they can’t kill it. This single scout lured 6-7 stacks of marauders towards Merlin capital, he can deal with them. Remember you can’t fight around the eyes if they are not bound because your units will suffer insanity.
Then move your city to the eyes and unpack it to bind it. Then I went to the secret portal, by now I had a good enough army to win, it was still very difficult and lucky tho because the cosmos unit can one shot everyone. I used arcane bond to bind 4 other units in the stack to be able to win. Then you can go inside, careful you need to bring all of your armies inside, e marauder will attack, then you go the Gabriel’s tower. There is another annoying fight, not as difficult but annoying because the enemy units keep reviving. Then you get two sentinels, choose the undead ones, and the super spell, BUT to use it you need level 3 wizard tower, I wasn’t able to even build it in time but at this point I didn’t even need the spell. Most importantly, this win will provide Merlin with powerful armies he can use to defeat the marauders that you lured to him.
By this time Nekron had declared war and was sieging my city. I teleported my armies back and win with the powerful units I had collected or mustered from the liege.
Then I destroyed an astral rift infestation nearby and went to siege Nekron capital. Easy fight now, but powerful astral marauders took it while I was migrating it which I could not defeat because I was still building the level 3 wizard tower. I went to defeat other marauders while waiting for the building to finish and to retake Nekrons city, when either Merlin or Raskar defeated Simon and game won.
I wish the mission didn’t end so abruptly tho, I wanted to explore all other portals and use the uber powerful spell to clean up everything.
I’m struggling with with this mission on Hard, especially with the million stacks of “ghosts”, how to do it? I’m using an astral attunement focused build, should I use an order build?
Where objects from its Byzantine past can be seen all together?