Re: Summoning Healer Commanders
 

Slightly Off Topic, but here I go...

Haven't actually ever thought about using Mother of Serpents as a target for wish, have to keep that in mind :) Other than that, Mother of Serpents as pretender chassis is pretty nice if you go for Tartarians in a sort of sneaky way. With high enough D paths she can summon a Tartarian, next turn heal it, then summon another, heal it etc. You won't have lots of Tartarians fast, but you'll be guaranteed to have them all without afflictions :)

Also, I had in one SP game a 16 strong Knights of the Chalice unit, each with 4 star experience. I had GoH up, and that unit simply did kick butt (but then again, what doesn't in SP...), and I'd really want to see a similar unit in a MP someday :)

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Unless there's something special about the Mother of Serpents healing, she shouldn't be able to heal Tartarians. The normal healing skill doesn't work on undead.

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Ah right, damn. There went that plan :( I could have been ready say an oath I had this working some time in the past, but don't actually now I actually don't remember if it was or when it was...

I need a new memory chip to my brain. The old one doesn't function properly anymore.

Re: Summoning Healer Commanders
 

Now I understand why the "Faerie Queen healing Tarts" tests I kept running gave the most dismal results possible.

And a bit off topic / on topic. One of my most prized possessions ever was a 4* unwounded Maenad. Didn't think such a thing was possible! But she didn't get any speical treatment, and got killed like all the rest in a freak thunderstrike shortly afterwards.

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As Edi said, if you've got troops that tend not to die much (typically giants), it can be very worthwhile clearing afflictions. If a fairy queen is all you have to work with, it can still be worth it.

The other key thing is disease: leprosy spell, harvester of souls, bane venom charm. Particularly as I seemed to experience it the disease-spreading effect from the latter two seems to take effect after movement but BEFORE patrol tests. Thus if the offender so much as reaches a valuable province like your capital, even if caught it can potentially damage a lot of units such as cap-only mages and your god.

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Nice, I didn't know this. So you also need good patrols around your capital.

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Well if they try to walk it there, you should have advanced warning..... if they fly or tele, you're just screwed.

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really? i didn't know this. what units have the non-normal healing as oppossed to "normal" healing?

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Badly phrased, perhaps.

As far as I know, all units with healing skill have the same "normal" ability. I've been caught out enough times that I was allowing for the possibility he'd tested the Mother of Serpents healing Tartarians.

I know of no way to heal undead or old age other than the Gift of Health or the Chalice.

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oh ok i see what you mean.