Re: Tips for A newbie Playing as R\'lyeh
 

yes, i generally have a few immobile void summons defending my summoner (what else can they do?). The best idea imo is an SC (astral/ astral+water wyrm is good, air is good too) pretender with not too much magic and good scales (if you get good income you can steamroll anyone with massed ilithids

Re: Tips for A newbie Playing as R\'lyeh
 

Does Ritual of Returning actually work?
When I played R'lyeh, I tried scripting the spell that doesn't wait for you to get hit but immediately takes you home (Returning?), and the dang Starspawn never cast it.

Re: Tips for A newbie Playing as R\'lyeh
 

Did you notice that a gem is required to cast it? Other than that - the spellcasting AI works in mysterious ways.

Re: Tips for A newbie Playing as R\'lyeh
 

Returning is a battlefield spell which instantaneously returns the caster to the home province. Ritual of Returning is a ritual spell which triggers Returning immediately after the mage is hit. Returning is a perfectly viable means of surviving even the high-end void summons. Ritual of Returning... not so much.

Now, the spell description does state that it won't work if the caster is already in the home province, but I'm pretty sure the game treats the void gate as a separate province, like the arena.

Re: Tips for A newbie Playing as R\'lyeh
 

Wouldn't he get feebleminded after two or three tries, at most?

Re: Tips for A newbie Playing as R\'lyeh
 

sorry for being unclear (reading it i see my mistake). I meant to say that a good pretender for rlyeh, not summoney (badly worded i know)

Re: Tips for A newbie Playing as R\'lyeh
 

I tried an astral kraken for summoning. I figured hey, recuperation. It didn't work very well, though. Even with a decent summoning skill he was feeble minded too often to be worth it. Would have been better to expand first, maybe then use him for summoning.

Re: Tips for A newbie Playing as R\'lyeh
 

any non starspawn priest isnt worth it for summoning imo, if your gonig to use a kraken sue it on a map with lots of water in one place (tyrande) to make use o its SC powers. (astral weapon+multiple high str attacks)

Re: Tips for A newbie Playing as R\'lyeh
 

R'lyeh tips:

Star Children can assassinate, but they're pretty hopeless at it. Worse than basic assassins, even. In other words, don't bother.

Unarmoured Illithids have a slightly more powerful mind blast than Illithid soldiers.

Re: Tips for A newbie Playing as R\'lyeh
 

By "hopeless" do you mean "AWESOME"? As in, amphibious, high MR, mind blast, mind burn, soul slay, free ethereality and luck, and even the ability to assassinate low-astral Gods and SCs with Magic Duel? It's hard for me to imagine a Star Child losing an assassination attempt except versus a powerful mage, a high MR thug, or someone with many (or cavalry) bodyguards.