Favortie Champion

[NeOmega]

http://www.classicgaming.com/mom/her.../hero0034.html for a refresher.

Mine was Warrax.... ooh armor piercing lightning.

[Rex Little]

I don't see how you can pick anyone but Torin. Magic immunity and missiles immunity flat-out rules!

[NeOmega]

yah, but, life magic....eeewww!

[aaglo]

I don't very much like those champs, which require certain spell books (Elana, Mortu, Ravashack and Roland)...

I think the best champ is Allora the Elven Archer. The best archer there is. Very cool, very deadly

[NeOmega]

I think my ideal 6 champions that I would gather would be Warrax, Allora, Mortu, death Stryke, Mystic X maybe, and pehaps the draconian, or Shin Bo, just cuz I love ninjas.

[MattyBoy]

Torin.
(I also like any Noble dudes)

[Tuberski]

Mystic X, just because he is also in MOO 2.

[MattyBoy]

I dislike Roland and Sir Harold - too clean cut, to use a PC term.

Somehow DeathStryke has always struck me as a bland thug, but I'd rather have him on my team I suppose.

[moomin]

Warrax and Elana get the nod. Torin isn't really a champion... it's not like you can summon him with the summon champion spell.

[Tuberski]

Besides, by the time you get to Torin, he is pretty much unneccesary.

[MariOne]

...unless you pick 11 Life books....

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by MariOne
...unless you pick 11 Life books....

But if you get him that early, sometimes his mana upkeep is to steep. When you can pay the upkeep, a lot of times he is, again, unneccesary.

[MariOne]

Indeed, without actually forcing myself into a "house rule", the same I almost never played "monomagic" games, don't even mention 11-books games.
I just gave them another try after reading this thread.

When you pick 11 books, you get something like 16 powerbase from the start (IIRC 1*book + 5 for the fortress), eventually a couple more if you pick HighElfs (only arcane plane power-generating race, IIRC).
Always offhand, Torin mana maintenance costs 12 mana per turn.
This means, getting Torin early means you're devoted to a low-mana game, at least in the beginning.
This means low-research-speed, slow-skill-increase, etc...
Although the 11 books in a single magic (Life) balance those handicaps with their discount bonuses in research and casting costs.

Thus, it boils down to defining what "too" in "too steep" means to you.
It's a weigh between the benefits you get from using Torin early, and the aforementioned tradeoff.

You may have different opinions on it, I tested it and at first look I didn't find it particularly easy or interesting myself, but I won't dismiss it so easily.

[aaglo]

And torin can capture weak nodes right away, so you can send guardian spirits to the nodes to get more mana

[tonic]

Aerie The Illusionist - although only in the promising category, I like the look of her.