[AhhhFresh]

Originally posted by fahdiz:
But of course, the VQ is available to virtually everybody, whereas the Void Lord is available to only one nation. So that is a massive difference there.

I use the Void Lord as an example, because I am most familiar with R'lyeh. Ironically enough, I experimented with it because the VQ is not available to them...

But I imagine somebody who's familiar with a Nataraja SC, could get them fully equiped in a similar amount of time...

The Bulls are nearly unstopable beasts with only Enchantment 2 researched.

To me, effectively battling Indie Str 6+, is not much of a challenge... tons of pretenders with a little research or a few items can tear through indies.

So when I look at a SC, I look at how effective they'll be against other SCs. Which is where the VQ seems really lacking to me... 23 HP, 0 base protection ...

Etherealness is worthless vs. magic weapons... and that shiny suit of black steel plate is worthless vs. armor peircing... and that undead nature means that there are a bunch of weapons that do x3 damage to her...

Off the top of my head, I can think of the Flambeau which is high damage, armor peircing, and x3 damage vs. undead... and available at construction 4.

Of course the VQ is immortal, so she can come back to die again... uhm, great.

Maybe Norfleet can come in and show me where I'm wrong about this, but I just don't see it.

[ March 30, 2004, 18:01: Message edited by: AhhhFresh ]