I've finished the scenarios and so I'm now slowly trying out different civs and victory conditions. I finished up Tower of Mastery with Amurites, so naturally I moved on next to an Altar victory with the Grigori (seemed appropriate, at least from a lore perspective).
I'm really struggling with the Grigori's lack of prophet specialists though. I thought at first that I'd be able to upgrade my Adventurers to Luonnator(druids), via Adventurer->Ranger->Luonnatar. I've finally finished getting all the techs to be able to do so, and I now have 3 Luonnatar Heroes (and the Worldspell is still available)... but I can't seem to found the Altar
Was that removed? Has it been changed so that you can only use Great Prophets to build the first 6 stages of the Altar? I should have all the techs for building the first 6 stages of the Altar (just missing Omniscience)
Also, how do most people approach it, using Grigori? I noticed that I pretty much have no choice but to change to Theocracy civic, have farms everywhere, and run tons of Prophet specialists. And yet, I need to research a *lot*. How do you balance the requirements of needing farms (to run Prophet specialists) with the demand of needing lots of tech (which would imply Cottages)?
Do you do all your tech'ing first (including Omni), and then switch to Theocracy + Farms + Prophet Specialists followed by popping your Worldspell?
Finally, what is the earliest unit that can heal for the Grigori? Is it the Grigori Medic? Having no disciple units seems like a real downer.
I'm really struggling with the Grigori's lack of prophet specialists though. I thought at first that I'd be able to upgrade my Adventurers to Luonnator(druids), via Adventurer->Ranger->Luonnatar. I've finally finished getting all the techs to be able to do so, and I now have 3 Luonnatar Heroes (and the Worldspell is still available)... but I can't seem to found the Altar
Was that removed? Has it been changed so that you can only use Great Prophets to build the first 6 stages of the Altar? I should have all the techs for building the first 6 stages of the Altar (just missing Omniscience)
Also, how do most people approach it, using Grigori? I noticed that I pretty much have no choice but to change to Theocracy civic, have farms everywhere, and run tons of Prophet specialists. And yet, I need to research a *lot*. How do you balance the requirements of needing farms (to run Prophet specialists) with the demand of needing lots of tech (which would imply Cottages)?
Do you do all your tech'ing first (including Omni), and then switch to Theocracy + Farms + Prophet Specialists followed by popping your Worldspell?
Finally, what is the earliest unit that can heal for the Grigori? Is it the Grigori Medic? Having no disciple units seems like a real downer.