Immortal difficulty with the Kuriotates, surrounded by an aggressive Clan and no room for expansion. Sometimes you have to forgo making a bow or arrow, and pick up a broomstick. The enemy hordes come when they will, and you'd better have something better than warriors when they do.
you made a point to research all the late-game religions while skipping over important and idiot-proof techs like sorcery or poisons
Order was the only religion I researched, due to the Social Order civic. All other religions besides the two I founded were gotten via trade.
Poison...is useless against stacks of Archers and Swordmen with bronze weapons. My Centaur Archers are much more useful than Assassins would be under the current conditions. If the Clan had bothered with catapults...well, I would have been screwed.
Sorcery...can wait until I have an adequate force of level 4+ Adepts. Would have had them by now if I could have researched KotE earlier and
diverted production to Adepts..but doing so would have lead to a quick death under the Orcish hordes.
Besides, at that time, Deceptions was a 10 turn detour. Since I did have the Clan's invasion under control, I figured it would be worth it...and it was a decent lomng term boost to the economy once I got CoE spread around a bit.
No one is telling you to only try and build Nox Noctis and you never have to worry again.
Actually, some are, on this very thread no less. I'm arguing, however, that the invisibility - while strong - has certain counters. Sure, you can try certain counter-counters yourself, but that would require anticipating the original counters. Up to this point the discussion of invading land shielded by the Nox Noctis has centered around slow-moving stacks of doom. I don't see why that would be unless one were playing a select few civs (Khazad, Clan, Bannor)
and if your mages are close enough and leveled up enough to maelstrom(granted you have air, death and body mana) the front lines and get away, you can bet they'll be the close enough for the NN owner to fireball and assassin you.(good luck mopping up with those 4 skellies)
Only if they have Commando on their entire stack, including the Mages. That Maelstrom will have to reach 5 tiles past the border. Thats possible to reach with hasted Assassins with Mobility II...assuming I am not using another counter. Really though, I am not saying that your empire would fall to my Mages regardless of what you do, but I don't see Nox Noctis being very strong against a very cautious use of Mages. You'd be better off making your city strong enough to handle a sustained barrage...which means pulling units in from the field and forgoing the invisibility granted by Nox Noctis.
>and i meant fireball your summons on the way to my city in my earlier post not fireball your mages.
Thats fine...summons are expendable and serve well as a distraction if nothing else. If I could not overpower you with the strength of my fireballs and summons, I would build Mobility horse (expendable as well) for pillaging while keeping the pressure on. Besides, by the time I have fireballs, those summons would be something a little more useful than skellies.
" a late game tech shows how overpowered ONE building is. 
4 skellies) 
