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If you do such a children start, you generally want to reroll until the advanced shield is a light-weight one that can be worn by your children to shield your red challenge class until adulthood. But here it isn't too critical since the inventor can do shielding as soon as your chosen children becomes unliving or vice versa.
If I did this, I'd probably do an inventor+children with the plan to use the undead as my red class. But it may require a few do over.
But more generally, Alpha Wolf + Craftman is probably the strongest all around opener albeit it can be a real pain with winter start to deal with the alpha wolf's limited spirit during windy times. If you really don't want to lose to a bad sequence of wind, you can trade the alpha wolf for goblin skirmisher, human warrior, or human hunter. Human hunter will cause you to struggle against pure red which most of the early game revolves around though, and weight management is also a major hassle with hunter start.
Oddly enough, hunter starts would most benefit from four-legged friend yet both cards are green...
With any variant of this start, you likely want to make the craftmen your chosen, and run Morena's Blessing.
I think Chosen Rat + Inventor is also a viable albeit rocky start. Try to screw your Sylvian faction loyalty a bit so that you can repeat quests to eliminate rats (there's a path that lets you grind +strength on your chosen rat - and IIRC it becomes unavailable from the pool of possible quests once you reach 40 loyalty - don't quote me on this).
*Edit* Oh yeah also, pretty much always start advanced shield if you have a non-red class that can equip it(which you almost always should). Playing your red class twice and giving both copies shielding twice with the other unit is the best way to manage early red. You may have to manually battle a lot.
*Edit2* after toying to T100 with chosen rat + inventor, I think you could also play inventor/scavenger and just use the inventor as your red challenge unit (may need to reroll new games until advanced equipment a good weapon) and just use the scavenger to give shielding. Inventor is a great yellow challenge unit but it starts with 8-10 strength so it is viable red challenge unit. It's a bit like the alchemist vs human healer for inventor vs human craftmen.
It felt more or less like starting with a human warrior + human inventor + human child with bonus 5-10 food (however many turns the chosen wanders alone in his group starving and scouting). i.e. similar to a 5 or 6 card points start. This is a pretty solid start on 4 points. The only critical thing to hit in your starting crew is for the inventor to have Improvise as one of his 2 random skills. Aim for the remaining children to grow to Zerca or Healer and you are in a solid spot.
Cards were (left to right)
Four-Legged Friends
Hero's Blessing - Night Walker
Inventor
Children
advanced shield
(completely optional last slot. I went with advanced equipment as I don't mind rerolling starts a little bit but I ended up settling for inventor with improvise as reroll stop condition).
There is a repeatable ruin in the starting biome that gives +2 wisdom to your unliving chosen (kill the undead girl and insist for reward). I assume if you grind enough yellow you might be offered more options for DQ "growth" event. I was only offered orc skeleton which admittedly I was very happy with.
I haven't found a repeatable/reliable purple grinder. I even picked the magic user option partway through DQ and still wasn't offered any purple pivot at the end of DQ (mys/dest were still terribly low on chosen and crew-wide too).
What did you mean by hard Niya......i mean am i missing something that their is a easy/normal/hard selection of the game?
i just know only one level to play on, am i missing something, i played Niya and i didnt find her harder to play.....just less fun.
Children were a trap after all, especially if you want to keep them alive. Yeah, if you transform one quickly it's a bit of a boost, but still. So I started with hunter and craftsman and it was going fine until I foolishly released a striga from random event and was caught by it and yellow lightbulb enemy. Don't have inventor since I thought that it was a gimmick class, guess I'll unlock it next.
I guess I was just so used to Zorya and her bonus, sigh.
Yeah, difficulty can go up to 200%, you can change it while choosing a god - there will be three buttons at the bottom. "Back", "difficulty: 100%", "next". If you click on difficulty you will be able to configure some stuff, like starting season, number of god points to use for card picking, will hiding camp be avaliable at all, will resources collection rate be affected by season, etc. So on 200% it's quite hard.
I really don't know what would distinguish a gimmick class from another. It is normally only available for chosen human DQ reward, and is certainly the strongest "carry" class available to humans (zerca remains imho best all around because of utility).
If your hunter+craftmen opener went ok-ish, you could try an alpha wolf-craftmen opener. I prefer them to hunter start except for the awkward deaths to wind because alpha wolf is stuck on 7 max faith forever. It also offers a pretty spectacular DQ option for late scaling if picked as chosen (meanwhile the best DQ upgrade you can get with a chosen craftmen is inventor).
Still feel inventor + children chosen suicide edges it out a bit, especially if you manage to get the 2nd children as a zerca by T50 ish.
Let me just leave 1 tip for u. Blue Orc baby and make him chosen:=)
I had the impression that these events are not planned when there is only one character.
As for recruiting in a village you only need 50+ loyalty and to visit the large village (the village with a play pole in the middle of it) to recruit but bear in mind not all factions have as easy recruitment. Slavyans, Scavengers, goblins and orcs are perhaps the easiest as mentioned about they only need 50+ loyalty and be at the right village.
Thks.....im new to Thea but in the past 2 weeks since i bought it ive put in almost 150 hours i think. My new addiction, and when i get addicted i binge play it until im bored.
Yeah i did notice that before, but forgot about it, since i biinge played it on the default level....which i think is easy.
Lately tho ive played normal, well more like normal with one caviet, being hamstrung by start up picks just isnt fun to play IMO so im playing normal lattely with one custom.
Hmmm only 4 picks hard eh? wow that sounds suicidal. altho ur only choice seems a war/hunter pick and a gatherer so you dont starve, and u have to have at least one fighter, plus you need 2 picks, to have children to grow, as Reaver mentioned.
Yeah just doesnt sound fun....i could probably eventually survive, after massive reloads, save EVERY turn, since the results are so random. My usual strategy of running for the better lands to settle would be out of the question and pure suicide, hmmmm have you considered a raft too, if something too dangerous comes close, you can pop on the raft so i find them usefull.
On 200% you want to avoid having to gather for a while. You just get your food from combat events. Most early game dwellings are animal based so they provide spawns for meat or eggs or honey and there's typically some fruits, veggies or flowers from other events to cook up to double your food effectiveness.
And in thea 2, unlike thea 1, you can actually play full nomad and barely ever gather. If you can build up a sea-capable crew, you can grind mats for top end weapons just from combat rewards pretty quickly - and absurdly quickly for 2nd tier weapons by just downgrading top end mats.
I know I haven't picked up a gatherer as a starting unit since I started playing 200%. Maybe with one of the gods that has it for 1 point with a special card before I unlocked all cards for a 3-character start. But 3 char starts are more difficult with respect to food management because early loot doesn't scale up to 150% while your consumption does. If you don't high roll food rewards early, you wind up forced to stall gathering fish and wood a while.
hmmm so settings you put high food rewards your saying?
And yes, that is mainly the starting island biome producing this. But by virtue of ramping up exp a lot faster and unlocking research faster too, you can typically get to move out of starting biome on a similar pace as you might on lower diff stalling and gathering.
If you are not deliberately avoiding the one ring as a self-imposed rule, this playstyle can get you enough research points for the big power spike reliably before T100.