[Keir Maxwell]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
Bear in mind, 'tho, that there are assorted personal instant-death spells,
. . .
If it weren't for a penetration bonus, Paralysis would be weaker, since there's still a chance of surviving.

In practice something that takes your opponent out of the conflict and kills them if you win is close to being as good to simply killing them for most approaches based on winning the battle. Sure it means paralyse isn't so deadly as a spoiler used by a losing side but most truly powerful combo's are based around winning battles not losing them.

I have become a bit sceptical about wether SC's are very powerful in Dom2 given the range of counters. I'm back to my Dom1 postion of preferring to provide a mass of targets than a few juicy ones once the game gets developed.

Cheers

Keir