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Norfleet cheated? huh. I played against him a few times.
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Yeah. Here is a report from his last game on turn 22:
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Kristoffer said:
The full game with fatherland file has been recieved. We have checked for gem usage inconsistencies. Here are some numbers.
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Summoned commanders (cost in gems):
4 Wraith Senator (100 D)
3 Spectator (36 D)
46 Dusk Elders (920 D)
- 2 empowered 1 step (60)
- 1 empowered 2 steps (75)
- 2 empowered in new paths (100)
27 Spectral Mages (270 D)
- 2 empowered from 2 to 3 (90 D)
3 Wraith Consuls (105 D)
2 Bane Lords (10 D)
2 Queen of Elemental Air (100 A)
This sums up to
1531 Death gems
100 Air gems
135 gems for empowerment
Norfleet the Ghost King - F4A5W4E4D5N3 (?)
Some items:
- 9 Wraith swords, 3 standard of damned (150 D * 0.75)
- 18 Dwarven Hammers
- 35 Clams
- no fever fetishes at a quick glance (one being made)
Gem income: 55 (15 Death) + 35 clam pearls
Sorceresses: none
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Regarding Raven Feast. sqrt(unburied)/3 = gems.
Thus 14.400 unburied (pop loss of 144.000) needed for 40 death gems.
Keep further discussions on the matter civil, please.
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And that's the story of how the Vampire Queen got put into the hall of fame as the top pretender. It was his favorite until she got nerfed, and then he switched to the Ghost King. Of course, his success was based on pulling in extra gems through a (now closed) turn report bug and playing a team that allowed him to conjure leaders from turn 1.
So the basic impetus to nerf the Vampire Queen in the first place was based on false information. Vampire Queen positions were able to crush all opposition but the same could have been accomplished with a Crone with the same "strategy".
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An ageless olm, fighting constantly, will eventually get horrible afflictions. On a VQ they go away quickly
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Sure. She essenntially has Recuperation. That's a
great power. The Ancient Kraken was one of my favorite gods even in Dominions 2 when he was bugged so that he wouldn't ever cast Resist Poison on himself. The Lord of the Wild and the Black Bull are also great gods.
But they are also much cheaper than the Vampire Queen. All of them are. The Vampire Queen has advantages and disadvantages vs. other gods, but she is costed like a pretender with only advantages, and that makes her blow instead of suck.
-Frank