Number of Tech Priests

[Toast]

I have four TPs and have an option to get a fifth . What would be the optimum number , I have 2 melee and 2 ranged . I was thinking of getting a third ranged TP , all my ranged TPs use the CP skill Tree as secondary .

[Zaphied]

Any magos beyond the second takes you on the road to cheese city in my opinion. Depending on builds, you can easily get away with only 2-3 priests with no entourage skitarii/servitors once you clear say 5-7 missions. More tech-priests are just more guns/flamers/axes (whatever your playstyle is). And if you kit them right they generate cp to fire without tiring. Further once you have any priest magos raised to be able to use 3 slot equipment in most slots is unkillable, somewhere around level 13 or so.

[Daedalus Cain]

Strangely enough, having only 1-2 TechPriests is also the road to cheese, because that focuses a ton of blackstone onto only a couple characters. Not as bad as 5-6 TechPriests, but the balance problems with the game are all over the map. Ultimately, take as many TechPriests as you like. If you're already far enough into the game to start seeing a 5th one being available, then you should already be noticing the downward slanting difficulty level.