February 3rd, 2004, 05:50 PM
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Re: Give me good reasons why R\'lyeh is a balanced nation.
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Originally posted by Argitoth:
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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
3) Cast swarm, and interrupt the mindbLasters with dragonflies, forcing them into melee. You can even curse them first, so even dragonfly bites will cause problems...
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Damn good idea!
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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
These are some pretty simple solutions. The best is probably crossbows, but you seem to have discounted that already.
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Crossbows are too expensive and hard to find a high resource province with them, so it's a very rare option.
Unless you are Ulm, or Marignon, or T'ien Ch'i, or any other nation that has a national crossbowman. Longbows (Man) work too.
I also agree with the dragonfly idea; Harpies or Eagle Warriors can do this too, as can any Caelum melee. More expensive flyers like Valkyries aren't as good at it because they will probably only engage part of the illithid force and then some of them will get mindbLasted.
The main thing you have to remember is that illithids cost 50 gold. Each. That's more than Jotuns. Nearly 50% more than Jotuns in fact. You should be able to outnumber them at least three or four to one with infantry, and you'll need to. (Cavalry don't work as well, because their higher cost means you can't have as many, and sheer numbers count for a lot against mind bLasts.)
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People do not like to be permanently transformed and would probably revolt against masters that tried to curse them with iron bodies.
Pigs, on the other hand, are not bothered, or at least they don't complain.
-- Dominions II spell manual
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