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Did you know that....

Storm Demons are one of the few creature who aren't affected by Storms. Toss in a Gift of Reason and give them a Bow of War and you have Storm-immune archery (and as Commanders, they can be set to Fire Rear). The Precision of 14 doesn't hurt either.

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Storm demons and air elements and air queens right?

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Aezeal said:
Storm demons and air elements and air queens right?

There are some nation-specific units as well.

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Did you know that....

Several nations get their own special Soulless and Londead. While most people know about Lanka's undead bandar and markata or Caelum's winged undead, few people know that Atlantis gets undead that have coral armor and weapons.

AFAIK, any non-humanoid nation has its own type undead similar to the majority of population (meaning R'lyeh gets atlantians, for example).

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AFAIK, any non-humanoid nation has its own type undead similar to the majority of population (meaning R'lyeh gets atlantians, for example).

EA Argartha and EA Formoria both have normal Reaninmated undead, as well as all the "mixed" nations that are both monsters and human units or are humanish (Yomi, All Abysia nations, Tir' Na' Nog, etc).

PS. Several of the giant nations get giant longdead, which are aweesome.

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So, while I think this idea is just great - the use of it to create Reanimating Priests seems a little fishy to me. Can any undead priest reanimate? Cause it would just be totally bizarre to have a nation like Arco with a widespread capability to get undead freespawn.

What do you all think?

Thematically I'm fine with it. Of course this would represent a major corruption of society, but if a nation like Ermor could be tempted by the dark powers of death magic, why should Arco (or any other nation) be immune?

But you can make thematic reasons for anything, really. This effect is basically a loophole because the nations who dont have access to Reanimation were designed that way. Reviving a mage skirts the upkeep cost but doesnt add capabilities to a nation that never had them before. While I would LOVE to use this trick, I think I have to admit to myself that its an exploit in the case of priests.

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tengku, come to mind.

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Did you know that....

Storm Demons are one of the few creature who aren't affected by Storms. Toss in a Gift of Reason and give them a Bow of War and you have Storm-immune archery (and as Commanders, they can be set to Fire Rear). The Precision of 14 doesn't hurt either.

Are they actually storm immune? I know they can fly in a storm and I can easily see them not get the precision penalty, but doesn't Storm also stop 50% of missiles? Are they really immune to that?
Not to mention GoR just to get an archer seems a bit of a waste...

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True enough. From your post I wasn't sure whether you meant it thematically or gametechnically. I'm quite sure I have seen KO confirm that the fact that all undead priests can reanimate is WAD. Of course, that was mostly in regard to someone prophetizing some random undead to reanimate a few chaff units. I do agree that it is quite a leap from there to the mass production of priests in this way. I do see why you think it could be fishy, though I don't have strong feelings about it either way. It certainly is a very neat trick though.

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In a battle, if you type "U" (capital-U) you can create enemy units, and if you type "K" you can kill the unit the cursor is over. This doesn't affect the outcome but it lets you simulate battles.

-Max