Re: Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You're playing a Son of Niefel. *I'm* the one playing the Wyrm ...

You're supposed to *sacrifice* the midgets, not *eat* them. Damn overgrown frigid cannibal! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">How can eating midgets count as cannibalism? It is hardly as if it is eating people. Only the Rimtursar and Niefels count as true people, the Jotuns only barely get in as honourary people. All others are non-people, and, as such, potential food. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I guess it's akin to the midgets eating chimps and monkeys ...

Re: Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"
 

How goes the cold, cold war? In other words: UPDATE! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"
 

...Some Say In Ice: The Rift


Sometimes, I fear Tjordulf is intellectually challenged. A sad truth, but it is so.

"Master", he cries, "my eyes are watering."

Of course they are. Any mortal's eyes would be under the circumstances. The rift tears at sanity while unearthly voices disharmoniously cry silent screams of death from the ice-cold void between the stars and beyond the pale. Unstable, ridiculously expensive to manufacture, and undoubtedly dangerous, the rift is open. At my side, Angerboda shakes with the strain of maintaining it. Behind me, my Jotun guard, ready to repel invaders. I raise my hand to silence the crowd, and all stand silent as Angerboda exerts herself, arcane strands of astral power dragging an Ether Lord through the rift.

Fearful visage of terrible mien, the Ether Lord defeats rationality. Banished he was along with his fellows for good and sufficient reasons when the world was young, but I am in need of crack troops, and there are none better.

As he struggles within Angerboda's strands, I encase him in ice, and I lay my hand on him and bind him with my WORD, and he is subjugated - for now. He hates my binding and would betray me in a minute but my binding restrains him.

And he is only the first. Now the rift is open, I will allow a veritable flood through. Two full clans, I estimate, can yet be kept under control. Three, now, that is uncertain, and I really do not want any of them running loose - especially not the Ether Lords, but two clans, that I can manage.

With thirty Ether Warriors, two Ether Lords, a dozen Jotuns, and a score water trolls, Tjordulf and I set out again for the Himalayas.

Let the crone dread our coming, for the will of the God will NOT be denied.

Re: Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"
 

As always well written and with loads of athmosphere.
Ether gate: One of the spells I´ve never actually tried out. Can we get a screenshot of the next battle of the Himalayas featuring Ether lords and warriors?

Re: Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Try using Ether Gate. Just once. Your view on Conjuration 6 will never be the same again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif It is hideously expensive (90 astral gems), but I am hard pressed to think of any other summoning spell that delivers such a potent force, even for the price. A very good ethereal astral/death mage and 15 exceptionally good ethereal warriors - it does not get much better than that. (Sure, the conjuration 9 summons like Tarrasque and Tartarian Gate have a better price per unit and much more powerful individual units, but you only get one unit per casting with stiff casting requirements. Ether Gate gives you an instant army - including a leader capable of casting Ether Gate with a single astral boosting item)

As for screenshots, my writing is now two weeks behind my playing, so I will have to see which screenshots I took at the time. Hopefully I can find one with Ether Warriors.

Re: Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"
 

Never speak of Ether Gate again.

It is crap. You do not want to cast it.

Really. For real. 90 astral pearls? Much better stuff to spend them on.

Not on etheral giants with mooon blades. Really. Keep them for a dispel, http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Nothing in Dominions II can be dismissed with such certainty. If you think something is useless, you're probably not using it right, or it doesn't fit your style. SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE, will find a way to use it with good effect.

That said, 90 astrals is kind of steep, but who am I to talk? I blow through astrals like they're candy, spending over 1500 on a single unit.

Re: Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Nothing in Dominions II can be dismissed with such certainty. If you think something is useless, you're probably not using it right, or it doesn't fit your style. SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE, will find a way to use it with good effect.

That said, 90 astrals is kind of steep, but who am I to talk? I blow through astrals like they're candy, spending over 1500 on a single unit. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">1500? Repeated Wish?

-Gateway103

[ March 12, 2004, 07:22: Message edited by: Gateway103 ]