[deccan]

Okay, I did some tests with a standard AQ with a Blood Thorn today. I wanted to test the "swarm them with lifeless fodder" strategy.

Basically, I found that Clockwork Horrors are useless. Their 15 fatigue accumulates neverendingly and they never recover fatigue.

I then tested with 60 mechanical men against 1 AQ. This is not exactly cheap fodder mind you. Since I picked Ulm smiths to lead the mechanical men, I found that if the Ulm smiths can break the AQ's mistform with spells, then the mechanical men can kill the AQ very easily. However, without the smiths, it seemed to me that the mechanical men couldn't break the mistform on their own reliably. I suppose that a large enough number of mech men can kill an AQ just by doing one damage over and over again, but it would take more than 60 mech men to do that.

I also tested briefly with a standard bane lord with a wraith sword against the AQ. The bane lord had no chance at all, though the fatigue draining effect of the wraith sword worked as promised. But the AQ simply did too much damage too quickly to the BL. Maybe he would do better with a lightning immunity item, but I'm too tired to test right now.