Solium Infernum – Chronicles Tips for Mammon and Astaroth

The Chronicles to be built to highlight the respective Archfiends strength, heres how I played them.

How to Play as Mammon and Astaroth (The Chronicles)

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In General

Getting your Main attribute up to 4 for the third order is a BIG deal. As in all turn based games, a stronger action economy will generally beat most things. Make sure you regularly check your opponents military strength and make frequent demands of any Archfiends weaker than you.

If they accept you get free stuff, If they do not, take their places of power to just win the prestige race. If you can get a location lead early on, the prestige income itself can make an election win fairly easy.

Mammon

I’m not a 100% certain whether the Chronicles are fully seeded (As in, the shop options and such are always the same), keep that in mind, you might not be able to replicate everything a 100%.

Start by acquiring Tribute and moving your Legion towards your base for some healing ticks. Remember that you want Tribute to be early in the turn order if you can afford to, so the tribute quality is higher. Check the market to figure out tribute priority, ideally you want either an artifact or Praetor to attach to your legion, with stat buffs that allow you to either take the tree of Woe up left from where your Stronghold is, and/or to contest the Tower of Pride that is to the right of your Stronghold.

After you got your first and maybe even second Place of Power, or otherwise have the order to spare, offer the Chains of Avarice unique diplomatic action to one of your opponents (Probably not Murmur since you’re likely to fight him soon). Make sure you always have it active on at least one opponent for the “free” tribute. Check the market for any interesting artifacts or Praetors, I had a +tribute quality artifact available which is a strong purchase the earlier you can get it.

There are a bunch of options afterward, but my longterm attention was on being militarily stronger than Murmur so I could keep sending him Demands until I got a Vendetta. Then I set the Vendetta up to be about conquering enough cantons to make the Gehenna Mines Accessible.

If youre not confident about beating Murmur, you can instead either hire a legion that can teleport or cross ravines, or start looking for manuscripts to give your main legion that ability (Via acquiring Manuscripts). Remember that the Mines are technically directly above you, but separated by ravines. Also remember they have a pretty tough Garrison.

Once you have access to the Mines, you’ll have to overwhelm them with multiple Legions assisting each other, or alternatively if you raise Mammons Martial Attribute by a step, you can devise a strategem to weaken them sufficiently. If you can the Mines in good time, the extra Tribute quality is a massive boon. From here you’ll want to think about raising your ritual resistance a bit, since the opponents will begin casting theft or destruction spells on you that take away your cash.

Then simply use your cash advantage and buy strong legions, Praetors and/or artifacts and start taking away the AIs places of power. The combats and passive income will let you increase your rank to Prince and still win the prestige race.

Astaroth

This one is honestly easy with the possible exception of getting a Blood Feud (Depends a bit on how the AI reacts to your Demands).

Start the game by taking the nearby places of power and hunting Hell Striders with your primary legion for levels, while acquiring enough tribute for a good Praetor or War artifact. Once your Legion is buffed, start bullying your Neighbours for all their stuff. Lilith in particularly rarely if ever has nearly enough stuff to contest you, so just throw a demand her way whenever you have the slot free. She’ll be your most likely target to be blood feuded out of the game.

Focus on your Martial Attribute for your first extra order, but you’ll also want to pump your destruction a bit. You’re likely to go up against Murmur to get to the City of Dis, and he can deny you combat by killing your Legions with destruction rituals. Once you have your third order you can get a second Legion if you don’t already, and start sending even more demands to other Fiends for gifts or to then beat the crap out of them for all their stuff.

Astaroth generally generates plenty of Prestige off combat victories you can use for rank ups, but if you want to play it safe, you can invest a rank in Charisma and get a higher level Praetor for duels. This makes you stronger both militarily and also in the Arena, at which point you can start sending insults in addition to demands for good prestige gains.

The AI is generally pretty bad at gauging strength values, but consider not hiring too many Legions to make them more likely to reject demands, at least until you got the Blood Feud objective done.