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Originally posted by Blitz:

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Is there something I'm missing? What's the fatal flaw?

The fatal flaw is you are down 50 astral pearls, probably an angel or two and the VQ loses... a battle. Maybe a province. There's no reason for that VQ not to charge back into that same province the very next turn, regardless of how futile the odds seem to be against winning.

Furthermore, I have my doubts as to if the strategy works. Maybe I'll test it out and see.

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Well that's why I would say you need to cast it several times on the same province... to keep casualties down... ideally you'd have her completely surrounded with flambeau weiding divine entities... I can't concieve of a way that a naked VQ could survive more than a turn or two in that.

And I'm not sure what equipment she could wear that would really help her... anything that raises her defense... but how many (13+13)x3 AP damage hits do you really need? 2? Boots of Quickness maybe, so she can throw up two buffs before she is surrounded... but a Charcoal Shield isn't that impressive against angels since thay are fire resistant(50)... if she had a decent weapon, she could certainly take down an Angel or two... but naked life drain isn't going to save her.

Oh, and they're SACRED... so if you have a decent bless, watch out!

Yeah, it's a lot of Astral pearls... but they don't go away, you'll still have them to beat her down again... but now you'll be able to script those Holy 4/Fire 3 Archangels...

The main problem I see would be dealing with "chaff"... which obviously needs to be examined.