The Lord's Believers Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

The Lord's Believers Faction

The Lord's Believers is one of seven SMAC Factions in Firaxis' TBS Game of 1999, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (SMAC). Thanks to their 2-point Support bonus and 25% attacking bonus, the Lord's Believers have access to the best combat units in the game.

All else being equal, remember that TLB SMAC Units are stronger than rival units because TLB gets +25% attack bonus (Belief of fanatics) that no rival can make up for, ever. The +2 Support also means Four Free Units per base, which is huge.

Due to their two-point penalty to Research, Believers should go on the offensive in the early game. That means building an army to conquer other factions as well as assembling Probe Teams to steal technology from other factions.

The Lord's Believers Stats

• Leader: Sister Miriam Godwinson (The Fundamentalist)
• Background: Christian States of America, Unity Psych Chaplain
• Agenda: Life of Religious Worship
• Tech: Social Psych
• +25% Bonus when attacking enemies, from strength of convictions.
• +1 Probe: Devout believers difficult to brainwash
• +2 Support: Citizens eager to defend faith
• -2 Research: Suspicious of secular science
• -1 Planet: Believe Planet is their promised land
• Accumulates no research points until MY 2110.
• May not use Knowledge value in Social Engineering.

The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress. Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil. -- Sister Miriam Godwinson, "The Blessed Struggle".

The Lord's Believers Bases

• New Jerusalem
• Great Conclave
• Great Zion
• Far Jericho
• Redemption Base
• Children of God
• Noah's Rainbow
• The Voice of God
• Judgement Seat
• Valley of the Faithful
• Blessed Redeemer
• The Glory of God
• New Eden
• Terrible Swift Sword
• Time of Salvation
• Eternal Reward
• The Lord's Mercy
• Righteous Sentence
• Throne of God
• The Rapture
• The Lord's Wrath
• The Lord's Grace
• The Hand of God
• The Coming of the Lord
• Sanctity Base
• The Lord's Chosen
• Hallowed Ground
• The Lord's Gift
• Divinity Base
• The Word of God
• Revelation Base
• The Holy Fire
• The Lord's Truth
• Blessed Saviour
• From On High
• Godwinson's Hope
• House of Martyrs

The Lord's Believers Waterbases

• He Walked on Water
• Loaves and Fishes
• Belly of the Whale
• Fisher of Men
• Port Grace
• Water to Wine
• Consecrated Waters

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