Re: Affliction record?
 

My most afflicted is Popocatepetl the Mictlan Priest, who is up to eleven afflictions, and counting. He also has a horror mark, and a soul contract that is his only reason to live. That contract is providing the backbone of my army, at the expense of poor terrified Popocatepetl, who lurks quivering and blind in my home fortress, dreading the arrival of the almost inevitable day when his afflictions, or a horror, carry his soul away to the underworld.

His story is that he was diseased by miasmatic dominion, shortly after the previous bearer of the soul contract was killed in a surprise attack. Popocatepetl found the soul contract and undersigned it, for which the loyal followers of Gurgelor, my pretender, are enormously indebted and grateful. However, it also necessitated keeping him alive, both for the wages of the soul contract, and for Popocatepetl's sake, to postpone his payment of the ultimate price. The best we have yet been able to do to keep him alive has been to give him a ring of regeneration, which keeps his health stable at 8, but which has slowly been accumulating afflictions for him, which now list as follows:

diseased
lost one eye
lost the other eye as well
weakened
limp
crippled
never healing wound
mute
battle fright
feeble minded
lost an arm

and not technically an affliction, but also, the horror mark.

Edit: spelling errors - "bling" etc.

[ January 29, 2004, 17:45: Message edited by: PvK ]

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My worst was a Blue Dragon pretender. He started the battle with 240 HP in dragon form, then changed to Frost Father form on turn 1 and attacked. Ooops, I think I forgot to change his scripting... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

So in Frost Father form, he retained 240 HP but his new max HP was 10, and protection was zero. Thus, virtually every every hit gave him a wound, and he started out with a lost eye anyway. Needless to say, he died in battle with every affliction. That's when it becomes no longer worthwhile to resurrect him...

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Oh, I think I have you beat.

The mean Abyssian Warlord, mean feller, Hall of Fame #1 with over 3000 kills to his name.

battle fright
blind
chest wound
crippled
diseased
feebleminded
limp
lost an arm
lost one eye
lost the other eye as well
mute
never healing wound
weakened

And he was CURSED as well as horror marked! 13 afflictions! Admittedly, some of those afflictions are afflictions I intentionally afflicted him with, like that chest wound there, as this was back in the old crystal heart days.

And the best part? Despite the immense pain he obviously had to be in, he singlehanded "slew" the final enemy pretender to claim the victory prize. He valiantly stumbled across the battlefield as the enemy pretender, himself feebleminded hacked and chopped through my troops as spells exploded from mages of both sides.

Finally, all that was left on the field was the enemy pretender, a pretty sorry wreck himself, and my even sorrier wreck of a warlord....they clashed in the center. Actually, it kept saying my troops were routing, but the warlord was paralyzed and couldn't move. So finally, the enemy pretender collapsed from heat exhaustion and eventually died trying to beat my useless, crippled, paralyzed warlord to death.

Victory was mine.

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Tough guy, wasn't he! That's just as insane as this game is good! Why MY commanders never end up like that? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Really, that must have been a unique fight... Perfect.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, he's alive mostly because the crystal heart used to never dissappear after use, so the unit became unkillable.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Resurrection removes some or several afflictions.

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This certainly isn't a record, but let's give the poor chap a nod - he's only a lowly Longdead Horseman:

Lost one eye
Lost the other eye as well
Mute
Feeble Minded
Lost the head

Can you Gift of Reason an Undead? I might want to take this guy to the Veterans' Hall...

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"Lost the head" ... even if he finds it, it's not going to be much good for him. That may be the record for undead horsemen - I think they only have 7 HP and don't heal.

I expect you could GoR it, but I haven't tried.

BTW, my Popocatepetl the Mictan Priest is no longer a contender, as I finally managed to heal him completely using Gift of Health. I thought some of the more compassionate of you would be pleased to hear that. He still has the horror mark, though, but these days he still hangs out in the home castle, with a bodyguard.

PvK

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heck this thread is just GREAT. i was almost going to roll on the floor for 2 times.

THis isnt that funny, but i like the details in this game. When i realized a cyclops can only loss one eye until his attack and defense go 0 i was simply amazed.

I really like the affliction text when a wyrm losses his eyes (which should be 4)

"Lost all those eyes"


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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">IMO, players should be able to dismiss their units when they want to. Or, alternatively, units with 4+ afflictions should be killed off automatically. Also, Longdead troops shouldn't be able to lose their eyes -- they don't have any!