The vampire route is a really nice addition to solo play I think. It's a brilliant "all-rounder" and different enough from SAs to deserve a place in the game IMO.
I still flick on forums so often and have glanced this thread without actually reading much of it, but I've seen people whinge about routes and stuff...
Firstly variation adds to the game, less routes makes for less interesting UNLESS these routes are imbalanced... they're not. I personally love both the Fantasy routes. They are not polar opposites of other routes but there's certainly a discussion point in alliances of which to choose, and same with solo.
Both are good solo routes because they're good to defend and are kind of "jack of all trade" routes and as a solo you're better off not being able to stomp 50% of your opponents and get stomped by another 50%, you're better off being able to half stomp 100%... Both routes are great deterants to be attacked if set-up correctly. Two of the best solo routes, only Nanos and Bunkers would be above them I think... but I'd still probably pick Vamp or Sorc purely for funzies...
If my post is completely out of context or whatever then I'm sorry, I can't be arsed to read what you lot have written for 4 pages because I'm right, irrespective of what's been said properly.
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