[Norfleet]

Well, there's no really easy way to accomplish this: You can try Poison Ward, which will cost you a nature gem, and requires a nature-2 mage...but just watch: you give him the gem, and he refuses to cast the damn thing, even when you explicitly told him to do so.

Or you can position your units so that the hydras go elsewhere and not near your other troops, but just watch: They'll all end up in a big clump in the center when the fighting starts, and everyone dies anyway.

Sometimes, I think that them hydras, they just aren't meant to be used with anything other than missile troops. And just watch, they'll get mowed down by friendly fire because your air mage, like the nature mage, refused to cast Arrow Fend despite being given the gem to use. Bah.

It's like the saying goes, "Some days you eat the sandwich, some days the sandwich eats you.". And in Soviet Russia, the sandwich eats you.

Basically, you can keep trying to use hydras with your normal troops, and watch in horror as it manages to go horribly, horribly wrong, no matter what you try, or you can try using just hydras, and units that are innately poison-immune. Unfortunately, Pythium lacks these, so you'll be stuck with whatever you might be able to scrounge from Indies, or summoning your own.

[ February 07, 2004, 04:46: Message edited by: Norfleet ]