Solium Infernum – Main Strategies

What are the main strategies for victory in this game?

Path of Combat

Having big, undefeatable legion(s) (or Praetors if you prefer Praetor combat).

• Pros: You can easily take Places of Power by force, and make demands by threat of force. You can easily take Pandemonium earlier.
• Cons: Not strong on the diplomatic side. Enemies can ignore your demands if they have a strong economy, thus avoiding vendettas.

Path of Sorcery

Harm your enemies with Destruction.

• Pros: No need to put your legions into direct danger. Or make it attack harmed feebled foes.
• Cons: Require a good economy for strong rituals.

Path of Deceit

Try to steal everything from other enemies. Optional: try to make an enemy win and use a machination win condition to steal the victory for yourself.

• Pros: You disrupt enemy economy while strengthening yours…
• Cons: Need to avoid machinations discovered by prophecy and other means…

Praetor Duelling

If you have Haagenti or Temeluchas or some other absolute beast of a duellist, then you can bully the other players. Maneuver them into letting you challenge them to a duel: if they turn up then you kill their praetor and you win prestige, and if they don’t turn up then they’re handing you free prestige.

You don’t need places of power or anything else to make this work, just a levelled-up badass of an arena fighter. If you’re playing as Andromalius, you have a unique ritual that can make this even more effective.

Burned Offerings

More tribute for me! More! More! The ability to turn tribute directly into prestige (via the Burnt Offerings ritual at the top of Charisma) is game winning if you focus on it.

This is a very boring strategy to play or to play against, but it works. If you do this, remember: every order slot can be a “seek tribute”, which means that every time you do anything else – including moving your legions or engaging in diplomacy – you’re forfeiting some tribute, and therefore some prestige.

Shooting The Moon

If you can take and hold Pandemonium, you win, regardless of your prestige. This means that spending the whole game building up to taking Pandemonium is a viable strategy in its own right. This strategy ignores the entire Prestige game and focuses on that one late-game moment.

For it to work, you’re going to have to fight the entire rest of the table, which means you need to have amazing legions and some solid ritual protection. Using terrain to block the others is also very useful.