SillyGoat
Warlord
Well, the Great Houdini is now at 37 exp, so I suggest we either keep the promo for healing or promote to C5. I'm not a big fan of promoting highly experienced units to either Shock or Cover. After C5, we should take Mobility 1, and after that (if he still lives) to Heroic Strength 1 and 2.
It's a pity we'll never be able to turn Houdini into a Firebow (I'm assuming we'll promote him to an Axe as well).
Nothing wrong with a l7 Axeman. Especially once he's been buffed with the Axe.
Agreed 100% on not going shock/cover until after c5/commando/march unless the tactical situation absolutely calls for it.
Lurker: Yeah. Only one thing wrong with this scenario: They aren't CHA!!!
In Erebus, CHA is really king because of the enhanced promos. You want promos, faster and more. That warrior with Combat V, Mobility I and Shock/Cover would be
True, no Cha here. But you have to play the hand you're dealt, not the hand you might want.
Cha is a great mid/late game FFH trait, but it's a bit weak in the early game (as far as military goes, the extra happy can be key early on depending on the map).
Axe crush is pretty dull, but our options are a little limited given how Perpy's forced our hand. I'd prefer trotting out some Firebows but Bowyers is still prohibitively expensive at our current tech level. And while KotE will add options to the table in and of itself its not going to solve our current problem. Let's take Perp off the board with Axes then hopefully settle into a nice Amurite military afterwards.
Dull? Axe rushes? I've never been bored with them.
They're a bit bog standard, maybe. But dull? Nonsense. Nothing more fun than spending your early production on a pile of Whoopasss and hoping your opponent doesn't spot it until too late. (waves at Darrell and Selrahc )
None of these suggested techs is going to greatly increase our research/production/etc, in my opinion. Going Bowyers, even if its going to take a while, is going to give us a lot (Perpentach cities and probably Beeri cities as well). So maybe we should just beeline Bowyers and that's it.
By the way, since we have an academy coming soon, might be worth to go 100% gold until we get it, then switching to 100% science.
EDIT: We could use the GSci for bulbing KotE. How useful would it be? We can get another GS by running 2 scientists somewehre (from EC + Mage Guild) for the academy. We would get the very interesting floating eyes. But that's pretty much it...
Bowyers as a tech target looks good, but if we're planning on some kind of long term game here then the Academy is probably the better bet.
If we're going Kzinti, then go ahead and bulb KotE.