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Hmmm that spurts out another thought. Ive had some good results by putting a monolith up front and let it take the brunt while my archers and mages did damage. A "mobile monolith" could be interesting.

If you went total defense, what could you rack it up to? 4 shields? And a number of shields are also offensive. Some armor also. Let it wade in on an "attack rearmost" command.

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Aegis + Barrier + Lucky Coin + Eye Shield?

-Max

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Depends what you are up against, but sopmething like Aegis + Barrier + charcoal shield + lucky coin, reinvig/MR items, maybe helm of horror would be a can'o'mobile hurt.

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What good is a Horror Helm without Awe? Isn't the goal to kill?

-Max

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True, awe might work work better than fire shield...Aegis will kill more anyway, right?

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All depends on what turn of the game, what will it be fighting(undead, magical, demons, or regular units), what levels have you researched, does the 4-armed sc have any magic paths, are your opponents human, computer or both, is this your pretender?


More details provide more accurate answers, but I can say that usually 4-armed SCs have only one misc slot which is usually best equipped with an anti-magic amulet. Much depends on the above questions.

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Im not sure on the horror vs kill thing. My concept wasnt so much as an SC as a barrier/distraction tank with a backup army doing the damage. In that case, the "cannot touch" type of items (cant see, cant hit, flee, etc) would be a usable build.

Ive REALLY got to get the GodMaker program down pat. I would love to add some of these to SemiRand to have them show up against me in a solo game. Im not much for playing SCs but I wouldnt mind coming up against some well-designed ones. Or even set some of them up as "independent pretender without a nation yet" in some designed province guarding a prime chokepoint on the map.