Re: Undead retreated?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I doubt I have enough time!

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I don't have time to research to lvl 4 construction, but I have allies that can give me skull stalves for death gems.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Patrollers will get attacked by Ghost Riders. I don't think I can research to lvl 9 conj on time.

Ermor is a human player. I was thinking of using solar rays?? I could research to lvl 2 evoc in one turn. But I don't think I have enough astral Users for it to be effective.

[ March 26, 2004, 01:57: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

Re: Undead retreated?
 

Argitoth, I don't think Nagot was being serious. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Undead retreated?
 

. . . (useless post)

[ March 26, 2004, 03:19: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

Re: Undead retreated?
 

Just use your famous "disintegration strategy", which works against everybody. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

...Sorry for that one, I could not resist it...

It would be tempting to say that you get exactly what you deserve for focusing so narrowly on conjuration 9, but I am more interested in how you managed to assassinate four Ermor Wraith Commanders in one round - that is an impressive feat and, considering it was done in your dominion, a fairly heavy blow to your opponents death gem economy as they are gone forever. Well done - now how did you do it?

Re: Undead retreated?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">He doesn't know Disintegrate! His Conjuration focus has left him devoid of Disintegrate, an Alteration 8 spell.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">C'tissian Empoisoners are quite adept at assassinating undead leaders, having death magic ability: Argitoth had Thaum-1, which easily enables him to cast Dust to Dust repeatedly. That'll make it fairly easy to blow through all but the most heavily protected and strongest undead leaders.

Re: Undead retreated?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I noticed. That is why I teased and added the http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Right, and if additionally they have boots of quickness they can do major damage. It is just that I expect SG wraith leaders to have a bodyguard of 5 ghosts each (SG gets ghosts for free every now and then, and this is an excellent use for them) and they can do major damage to most assassins.

Re: Undead retreated?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">1 Wraith - Protection of the Grabe
1 Assassin - Eagle Eyes

2 Wraith - Protection of the Grave
2 Assassin - Dust to Dust (miss)

3 Wraith - Protection of the Grave
3 Assassin - Dust to Dust (miss)

4 Wraith - Protection of the Grave
4 Assassin - Dust to Dust (miss)

5 Wraith - Moves in to attack
5 Assassin - Dust to Dust (hit) (wraith down to 12 hp)

6 Wraith - Moves and attacks
6 Assassin - DEAD


I tested it time and time again, and never had 100% success. The way I defeated 4 wraiths was giving my assassins 5 death gems allowing them to cast "Raise Skeletons" or "Raise Dead". They summoned around 30 undead each and that was enough to kill a wraith. I have tested and tested until I came up with the perfect solution. Note: I've tried many different scripts using Dust to Dust. Absolutely no script with dust to dust would have 100% success.

[ March 26, 2004, 13:35: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

Re: Undead retreated?
 

I guess the question is...

does SG having units that don't dissolve when leaderless, with its many other advantages, give it such a large advantage over AE as to make the latter theme unlikely to be played?

(i.e. is this the intended behavior?)


Rabe the Neither Rare or Done Well

Re: Undead retreated?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">AE gets many more troops than SG does, have cheaper unholy-4 priests (23 death gems vs 35), gets sacred troops in abundance (SG gets NO sacred troops except the rare Wailing Lady), and does not require a magic scale.

They play rather differently.

Re: Undead retreated?
 

I've decided to go for lvl 9 conjuration. Nations are helping me survive on every part of the map. I don't think I'll be vanquished from the game just yet.

[ March 26, 2004, 17:10: Message edited by: Argitoth ]