Re: Machaka
 

fighting ermor give commanders a charcoal shield, will eat the undead. A black servant with full black plate, helm, girdle of might and possibly quickness boots+lucky coin dosnt cost much, can handle practically any pd (sneak him behind enemy front line and flank with servants while your main army crushes him), is hard to kill and does reasonable damage (i suggest horror helm personally if possible)

Re: Machaka
 

I am having a hell of a time powering up mages. I have had to empower a F2 so they can forge the Flaming Helmet for the rest of them. Unless I get lucky and get F as the random pick, is this pretty much the only way to get Flaming Arrows?

Charcoal Shield to eat undead. It shall be so. Well, that is if it can be used by mounted troops. Not sure who I would put it on if I have to go with an infantry unit. It will be a nice complement to the one eyed priests who are doing most of the work right now. Getting berserk, regenerating, reinvigorating giant spiders helps to, they can hold the undead tide back quite well! I do love the blessed Hunters…

Re: Machaka
 

unless you take fire on the pretender then you need randoms/empowerment. The charcoal shield can be used by mounted troops and only use it on melee units as all it does is grant a strength 7 or so fireshield (so anyone who hits you takes 7 armour piercing fire dmg, deadly vrs un dead. Also remember that a f9 or so pretender gets around 15ap fireshield...)

Re: Machaka
 

Just get a fire-2 mage to cast phoenix power and then cast flaming arrows.

Re: Machaka
 

o yea, that would work too.

Re: Machaka
 

Doesn't Machaka get Death/Fire mages? That gets you Skulls of Fire. Of course, it's Construction 6, but might still be easier than empowering. And then you can make Flaming Helmets, though I'd rather use the Skulls in battle, since the helmet has extra fatigue.

Re: Machaka
 

yes, helmet+battle=no. Forgot about skulls aswell.

Re: Machaka
 

Phoenix power... Thank you, if only all the problems in my life had such a simple solution. Perhaps they do and I just don't see them!

My undead problem is largely resolved now, though the Lictors are a tough nut to crack. The issue now is a powerful Pyrthium which has had time to grow strong while the rest of us squabbled. Any suggestions are welcome, though I am not too worried. If I am running just spiders, they tend to get stalled by the poison Hydra. The other enemy troops rush to that fight, then get poisoned. My spiders resist it, so they don't mind, but the infantry on the other side do!