Succubus Hit Points
 

I know I'm new...but I thought I was making serious progress toward figuring the game out until today...

I summoned a succubus. It had about 60 or so hps when summoned into my 10 dominion. Gift of health is up.

I then move it (with lots of nice items including one artifact) into the province controlled by Bogus and crew, thinking it would be nice to gain control of one of these "experienced heroes" and to fight them one at a time with a buffed assassin. I gave the succubus some blood slaves for distraction purposes. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif That part worked well.

But the succubus' hit points seem to go down every turn. And I can't figure out why. My dominion in the area is going up or staying constant, so that can't be the reason.

She doesn't have any battle afflictions. And I can't think of any reason why her hps would go down every turn.

Is there something basic I just don't get? They were 42 Last turn in dominion of +2. they are now 39 or so. And the trend is always downward.

I am starting to think blood summons don't stick around forever? But that doesn't sound right.

Re: Succubus Hit Points
 

Gift of Health makes the succubus have higher hp in depending on the strength of friendly dominion. When you move her to lower dominion, the hp start to decrease. They won't decrease under her base hp (unless she's your prophet inside enemy dominion), and they'll go back up again if you move her back to high dominion, or the dominion in the province she's in increases enough.

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Check the hitpoints by clicking on them in the commander screen, and you should see the base hitpoints and how much the current dominion affects them. Did you manage to get Bogus?

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Bogus as a size4 critter is likely a non valid target, he has too big...equipment.

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She could, but she cant transport him so she doesnt try. Send in some sneaky mage who can try "hellbind heart" or whatever the spell is.

Or better yet use an air mage to cast the "wind ride" spell to pull Bogus to a lab somewhere you can surrround him with mages casting hellbind or charm. My favorite use of a red amazon province is to not give it defence (the defensive units get in the way) and crank out those 2-blood mages as a capture force.

[ December 25, 2003, 13:21: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Re: Succubus Hit Points
 

Oh, I forgot she can't seduce giants... Or atleast, chooses not to. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Succubus Hit Points
 

She isn't my prophet.

And yes she killed Bogus. Didn't seduce any of them, unfortunately. But it was near the end of the game anyway, so I didn't mind too much.

It sure was nice to watch those heroes meet their maker, though.... I have lost too many shortbow/infantry of ulm/heroes armies to those heroes. So it was nice to watch them drop one at a time like flies in this game.

Maybe my dominion was fluctuating a bit and it just seemed as if her hps were "floating." I'm going to have to try that again and see what happens. And you guys are right...I should have clicked on her hps to look at the base and other effects.

I think a succubus would make a good prophet. Hehe.