Re: Fun with ... GIFT OF REASON and Super Combatants
 

Yum, I love the idea of the instant Hall of Famer! Gift of Reason may not be cost effective, but it is more fun than most spells, so I love it. Now I just need to get it in real life and apply it to some people I know…

Re: Fun with ... GIFT OF REASON and Super Combatants
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yes! Starting with all elected officials ...

Re: Fun with ... GIFT OF REASON and Super Combatants
 

Played against Pythium in a game semi recently. Ended up facing a GoR'd hydra prophet. As long as it was fighting in his domain, it seemed pretty much unkillable ;p It was regening around 50hp a turn iirc.

Re: Fun with ... GIFT OF REASON and Super Combatants
 

A hydra prophet? That's even weirder, thematically, than the Ashikaga Jonin prophet I had in one game. Heh -- with over 60+ assassinations (long, slow-paced SP game) I reckon he'd be good at keeping the audience's attention. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
(And I'm tempted to try out an Arco Golden Era Sceptic Prophet, both for the irony and for the hope that it would tear down enemy dominion especially fast.)

Re: Fun with ... GIFT OF REASON and Super Combatants
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I was sort of wondering about that myself...perhaps he's only skeptical regarding *other* faiths rather than *all* faiths, including his own. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Essentially, he'd be the philosophical equivalent of an assassin. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Fun with ... GIFT OF REASON and Super Combatants
 

I tried GoR-ing the Eater of the Dead, just to see if you can keep control of him after he gets too big to be commanded normally.

You can't, but he rebelled while besieging an enemy capital, and I had great fun feeding him unburied bodies (with the various disaster-causing spells) and watching the AI try to recapture its capital from this obscenely high-HP, ridiculously rapidly regenerating monster. He seems to regenerate 10% of his HPs every round, and got up to over 1000 HPs near the end.

Re: Fun with ... GIFT OF REASON and Super Combatants
 

My Eater of the Dead ditched me around 350 Hps... based on the cost of gems and the fact it ditches you... other units are a better deal.
They're good if you have lots of gems, want to play around on the map and you've got the game easy. I wouldn't bring one into serious games tho.

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Re: Fun with ... GIFT OF REASON and Super Combatants
 

I am reasonably sure that I managed to charm the Eater of the dead when it went wild.

Having it go wild in enemy lands is fun, but it is not that hard to kill when it goes wild. Regenerating 35 hps per round does not help against an army with its low defense and prot.

Re: Fun with ... GIFT OF REASON and Super Combatants
 

The most interesting thing was when someone (Arryn?) GoR'd a Blood Slave and empowered it in blood magic. I think he said it crashed the game, though, when she tried to use herself in combat. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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Double post. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[ February 27, 2004, 15:25: Message edited by: moodgiesanta ]