I've noticed an incredible lack of Planetouched strategies on this thread... Is there a reason for this?

Are people afraid to play them?

Are they too complicated to be worth it?

What's the deal?

In my case, in which I consider myself an average player, I'm just too lazy to play them since they look pretty complicated

And probably since they're a relatively new race, not enough experience accumulated I guess

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doubleyou-tee-eff?????

Yes people are afraid to play them and yes they are complicated.

The common mistake is that you don't need to have 6* 15% landtypes. At least not early on.

Ex-Packie, we didn't change a bit.

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hhehe are you talking about the average part or the lazy part? or both?

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doubleyou-tee-eff?????

I just don't like to play ask them. I am not lazy about land balancing but I am obsessed with economy(gold mines and houses). Plus I ignore the land balancing until I need to build larger units. I switch over to academy, labs, dm, and taverns. For me it is harder to win as planetouched, but they are a fun race to play I tried playing dark elves for a change.

So far they're proving to be pretty fun. This is my first round playing Planetouched but I think I'd like to perfect a strategy with them in future rounds.

Atm I'm running 20% FT for the casualty and return time bonuses... But I'm starting to think that due to the restrictions of land balancing... it may be better to run Slave Pits instead... Allowing for more gold production from slaves & extra percentages contributed to homes.

I'm also allowing my swamps to be at around only 5% because I thought 15% towers would be give me a ridiculously absurd amount of surplus md.

/shrug..... suggestions?

Go for 15% towers.

Run extra DMs on 7/7 balancers till you get decent imps and then get labs later on.

Don't go for taverns this early, even sawmills (for imps) are better.

15% is indeed absurd. Very useful though

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[01:48] <knicoal> Rick!! are you ass-raping realms??????
[01:48] <knicoal> thats my job
[01:48] <knicoal> knock it off!

The planetouched work just fine for land strat, the only thing is that they must be played differently. First balancers are cheap.
The only thing I would change about the race is make the balancer an initially 2/0 and replace both binder and melder with a 0/2 version of balancer (both getting the +6 for full balance) and add a mage/spy with .5 mage and .5 spy. It would help the races offensive capabilities instead of just having a many 8/8s that you can only attack with half of them. Also its just really annoying when your defense decreases by 50% allowing the person you attacked to attack you for more land then you just captured. It forces planetouched players to attack with mostly shifters which keep corruption down or to bottom feed. It is not fun to bottom feed with any race!!! It is much better to be able to attack me with just as much land as you.

I don't think it's possible to have 8/8's knocked down to 4/4's. Ever.

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[01:48] <knicoal> Rick!! are you ass-raping realms??????
[01:48] <knicoal> thats my job
[01:48] <knicoal> knock it off!

he's proposing 8/0 and 0/8 not 4/4's.

I am sorry for not posting this in race suggestions. But when I read that people don't like to play planetouch it makes me cry. Also I kind of meant 2/0 balancer that get +1 to offense and +.5 defense for each 15% land type. Just +1 to defense for each 15% land type for the 0/2 and take -5% casualties and pulling that off balancers?
Current PT Race order = > Suggested PT order
Offensive Spec ====== > Offesive Spec
Defensive Spec ====== > Defensive Spec
Offensive Medium ==== > Offensive Med
Elite Unit =========== > Defensive Elite
Mage ============= > Offensive Elite
Spy ============== > Mage/Spy
Worker ============ > Worker

Having 8/0 0/8 troops would make this race even harder to play. But of course, remember all that wasted money we're paying for turtle?

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I was referring to his claim that when playing as Planetouched and you get invaded, your defenseis dropped to '50%'.

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[01:48] <knicoal> Rick!! are you ass-raping realms??????
[01:48] <knicoal> thats my job
[01:48] <knicoal> knock it off!