Re: Old Age, Senility, Bitterness
 

As you may have guessed, it's mentioned lightly under the unit stats area of the manual. However, no significant explanation is garnered =\.

Re: Message from Abysia
 

Sounds like an awesome and funny tactic to me. No, I didn't give anyone the collar, it was passed on from Madame Fortuna to the other commanders of Ulm. It's not a "cheesy" tactic either; we all know what fantasy RPGers do when they find a new item, and "identifying" it is not the answer. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif To all who face me in the future... beware the army of feembleminded scouts! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

Re: Message from Abysia
 

Oh, Theonlystd hasn't been around to see how badly people could attempt to sabotage the Deathmatch, I see. Suffice it to say that against evil human opponents, you should -not- send a commander you don't mind becoming diseased, feebleminded, cursed, blinded, or doomed to becoming a werewolf.

I think it's hard to beat the anecdote where a player had multiple Demonbred mages, all with one Eye of Aiming (Abysian mages having notoriously aim; must be the heat distortions). One died in battle, another picked up the Eye... and blinded himself by swapping it for his remaining good eye.

Re: Message from Abysia
 

That's diseased, feebleminded, cursed, blinded and doomed to become a werewolf.

Re: Message from Abysia
 

Actually its diseased, feebleminded, cursed, blinded, Horror_Marked, and/or doomed to become a werewolf.


Fixed

Re: Message from Abysia
 

swap horror mark and doomed around =). You cannot horror mark someone to be a werewolf hehe ...

Re: Message from Abysia
 

Never played Mp.


Sp id usually send someone in there who was cheap to hopefully maim a powerful Ai opponent so i had an idea what it would be like in mp.


And ahahhahahh replaces his only good eye with another one...

Re: Message from Abysia
 

About those shoes:

Yes, they stop aging. But do they prevent old people from getting diseases?

if that wouldn't be the case, Abysian mages start at around 55 with old age beginning at 35 and you would need to cast rejunevation twice to get them out of old age and would need to construct those shoes. Oh, and you would propably need to boost blood magic as reju is blood 4.

Over 30 bloodslaves just to get one mage that won't die of old age? Sounds not like a good deal to me.

But I did Illwinter injustice with me starting this thread, because Abysia still rocks if you focus on demonbred instead of anathemas for early expansion. They might be a bit weaker in fire magic and a bit less (un)holy, but they fly and have a long lifespan, so there's definitly a reason to use them (never used them in dom 2 because anathema were just better for my purposes)

Re: Message from Abysia
 

Whenever I used those boots that stop aging, I never saw that commander get affliction from old age including disease.

Re: Message from Abysia
 

I played LA Man yesterday and Umor, those guys sure get aging problems. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img] I took 1 or 2 Growth and the mages kept dying. It's propably to offset their amazing troops.