[Osium]

I was one of the unfortunate victims. I was Arco and was using Hyps and Elephants.

His valks were attacking rear and doing terrible damage so I set 2 6 elephant and about 15 Hyp units in the far back to hold his valks while a third unit of dumbos and hyps rushed his front line (which coincidently had a good number of Vans) with my SC pretender. In the end I was totally destroyed. I lost about 45 units plus an assortment of mages. Of his 110 units, I'd guess 40 were valks, I killed maybe 25 of them. His vans and regular infantry were able to bog down my pretender and the rest of my units. I don't know if 18 elephants and about 45 Hyps + my god is a good trade off for what he was able to inflict on me.

My pretender fatigued out rather quickly, an oversight on my behalf it was a Nataraja using 4 enchanted swords a pendant of luck. I over buffed and ended up at like 80 fatigue it did nice damage but 3 turns later it was sitting still getting swamped.

To me, the problem seemed to be his mirror images. Getting through them was hard enough and once through the high defence killed. Coupled with the brutal fire 9, those valks had extreme survivability and extreme damage output, they really hurt.

Im trying to come up with a concept on how to counter them.

Their first strike abilities coupled with that devastating attack and a very nimble defence makes them a real pain. Essentially being able to fly, their first round of attacks decimates whatever formation they hit, reducing the counter attack effectiveness.

They are expensive for sacred infantry price wise, but that said they are still rather difficult to overcome.

Please keep coming with the advice on how to death with these things ;p

Of note, the battle was largely over before my third set of phants and hyps + my pretender hit his front lines.

[ January 26, 2004, 10:47: Message edited by: Osium ]