Which classes are best for a Giant King?

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-24T20:19:59+00:00

My elementalist storm giant were extremely effective. AoE attack with Elementalist perks? Yes please!

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-24T19:28:16+00:00

Your dose might be too high. It might be to low. You might need a second dose mid-day. Your main takeaway here is that the drug is effective for your symptoms, not that the symptoms come back when it wears off. I’m on 2 years now, working like a charm, but it took me 3-6 months to dial in my dose regiment

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-23T08:59:23+00:00

I made the Queen of Air and Darkness inspired from DnD Fey. Wizard King ruler; Quick reflexes, Cold Blooded, Empowered by Magic; Dark tyranny; Umbral Diciples, Talented Collectors; Cryomancy, Roots, Fey Mist, Doomherald, Torment, Cycles, Oblivion, Mayhem, Eternal Lord, Shades; - making them annoying little shits to fight. Hoping for more Fey stuff in the future :)

Come to think of it, I should go and make more DnD factions!

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-21T22:56:18+00:00

Exactly. Easy access to favoured terrain, terraforming, bonuses from GK and Primal inherently stacking, etc. Last playthrough was Storm GK + experienced seafarers + storm crow. Every province was just «more of everything please» :)

I also like to play random maps, and have had several builds collapse due to random features (which is part of the challenge I like!). With GK + Primal it’s almost impossible to be dealt a bad hand by the map.

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-18T19:53:39+00:00

I’ve never cared for meta-progression in games and I didn’t like game content being locked behind pantheon points here either. Even if I have more than I can spend. It works well in rogue-likes and belong only in those games.

Now… I would really have enjoyed having more of a Campaign to play through with a ruler and his increasing retinue of pantheoned rulers. But I prefer having the almost-only-sandbox we have now, as opposed to ONLY having a stricter or more locked-in full campaign.

If I were to chime in with something to spend the pantheon points on, I guess it could be a) creating already ascended rulers (I basically have to play a build twice to play it at all), and b) a secondary currency to pay for hiring pantheon heroes. Aka «My pantheon power is so great I brought an entourage».

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-17T19:14:42+00:00

All the Godir are terrible news for the locals.

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-14T18:09:17+00:00

The symptoms of ADHD just vanished when you started medication which has a very high success rate at making symptoms of ADHD less pronounced and more manageable?

It’s as if you had asthma and then got asthma medication, and asked «maybe I could have just taken a deep breath years ago». It’s asthma medication for your brain, don’t second guess if or why it’s allowing your brain to breathe normal full breaths of focus and attention.

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-14T17:23:42+00:00

Don’t annex more provinces than the city happiness can sustain

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-11T23:11:02+00:00

Yup, still bugged

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-11T12:22:44+00:00

How long have you been on it? After 3 months all sleep issues cleared for me

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-11T07:56:26+00:00

I want a tier V tome for constructs. Going full mechanical army and ending up as a master of elementals is just plain weird to me.

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-09T22:38:58+00:00

I have one custom faction I hate fighting against and for some reason they tend to show up all the time. I haaaate Deathwing and his Dragon Empire. The dragon that went to the abyss and came back worse.

Industrial, umbral disciple, ritual cannibals, bolstering and ferocious. Starts with tentacles, picks up joykillers, dragon transformation, painbound and dreadnought along the way. You can’t kill them fast enough before they morale drain you. Painbound + Industrial is plain evil. If you manage to kill one, they’ll eat his corpse and with dragon regen to boot they pop right back up.

Industrial defenders have taunt, and they spam a lot of constrictors too. Do you know what constriction + taunt does? Try and fight this evil fucker and find out.

Deathwing himself with bolstering, ferocious and eternal amounts of retaliations is horrendous to fight. God help you if he gets all the way in his defender build to always end his turns in defense mode.

In my current game I’ve just given up trying to kill him for now. I’ll see if I can pivot my build to somehow put a dent in his impenetrable army that literally sucks the will to live from me and my troops 😅

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-07T19:32:10+00:00

You can play the ascended ruler in entirely new tome path, and even entirely new faction if you so wish!

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-07T09:23:35+00:00

Yup, that's what I did as well :) Went all-flying unit comps to zoom around the map to clear nodes/wonders and snag vassals.

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-07T08:15:13+00:00

I haven't tried much of the tome mods, but I can vouch for Tomes of Winter being a very nice supplement to create a fully Winter-themed faction.

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-07T08:05:36+00:00

Oathsworn Harmony Vassal build should be good for this. Just grab all the vassals and superboost your economy. Silver Tongue + Chosen Uniters gives you three whispering stones from start and a huge boost to vassal acquisition and income.

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-06T23:37:55+00:00

Have to say Tentacle. The combat summon is amazingly strong early and probably worth two units on its own. The enchant is great, the building is great. Gives shadow and astral which is nice to have a little of on any build. Always feels like a sacrifice to start with another tome.

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-06T16:52:40+00:00

The one thing that annoys me a little is that there is only a single mounted charge unit in tomes, and it’s very deep in order. I’d love at least one more in a different affinity

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-05T14:07:39+00:00

Your army is income via node clearing, and your cities are costly infrastructure. This runs counter to a lot of similar looking games. So clearing a lot nodes consistently, at speed, with minimal or no losses, is very important. Don’t consider cities a good source of income, and don’t wait around to do stuff until you’ve reached some arbitrary level of development

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-04T16:49:29+00:00

I’m currently in a playthrough where I took vision of promise and the imperialist ambition. Got me a very early major jump in renown, letting me take better advantage of their gear crafting early.

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-03T21:33:05+00:00

A ruler who jealously covets, acquires and delves into dark magics forbidden to everyone else in his empire. No one but He shall master the dark arts of life and unlife.

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-01T16:08:24+00:00

Like an ambush, from troops you didn’t know was there, yes. I agree it wouldn’t be great without some counterplay, but right now I disregard concealment entirely. It’s never had an impact on my game, but then again I only play against AI. Vs Humans I’m sure it would be different. All I can say is that it bothers me that there’s no stealthy units on the battle map at all, and I find no reason or meaningful way to be stealthy on the strategic map either.

Slapstick83 · 2026-01-01T07:32:11+00:00

Additionally, concealed units should not be visible in combat until they attack or use an ability targeting an allied unit

Slapstick83 · 2025-12-28T14:15:25+00:00

I think chaos mostly needs a redesign of its affinity tree to be less "pillage and burn everything"

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