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Old June 1st, 2007, 09:02 PM
jenadke jenadke is offline
 
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Although hefty at 140pts, the Einar Imperium are useful if played correctly. You have to think of them as a sneak attack squad with their stealth flying.

The best way is to play them last one turn, and first the other.

Use them to dish out some damage on a strong hero, and the next turn, move over to another hero out of range.

Openly put an X on them all the time to drive your opponent nuts.


As an aside, don't feel that if you pick the EI, you have to waste points on Kiova. Raelin is just as good, and you can use her as bait (i.e. move her up one turn and the EI the next... no opponent can resist this).
Statistically, Raelin and Kiova give them the same benefit. Kiova's benefit range is slightly more (5 spaces instead of 4), and Kiova has an extra defense.
The expected defense for Raelin is 5 * (1/3) = 1.667
The expected defense for Kiova is 3 * (1 - (2/3)^2) = 1.667

Most miscalculate the expectation for the defense using Kiova's benefit. You have to calculate it as "one minus the probability that I don't roll a shield twice", and do that for three dice.

The difference is the spread (slightly higher probability of rolling two shields with kiova), but also that you can get up to 5 sheilds with Raelin.
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