Re: Brainstorming : LA Man, Vs LA Utgard
From the description, he's using Woodsman with a nature 9 bless, and water mages (Skrattis) set to cast quickness on them. This is a really effective giant setup because the giants will cross the battle way too fast for your archers do enough damage, and since they are berserked, they won't break due to morale. The giants effectively gains 2 str, 2 prot, from berserk, 1 def from quickness (3-2 from berserk), and 3 atk without touching experience. Effectively making them into powerhouses that you can't hope to compete with on even grounds.
Here's the choices you have:
1. Try to out strategize them. The above giant strategy is heavily gold dependent (and pratically zero resource). You can try various tactics such as spies or just out right raiding to cut his gold supply. Giants always lacks numbers, and their PD is absolutely abysmal, so this is probably the most effectly option, IMO.
2. Should you have to face the gaints in battle, the one thing that they do seem vulnerable to is fatigue. So my suggestion is to try using Curse of Stones and a lot of chaff units to get the giants to tire themselves out. Bringing some priests along to sermon the troops if you try this, they will take massive innitial losses.
3. The third option isn't too reliable by itself, but can work with the above, but would need a lot more mages. Essentially, try to put some few elite infantry(wardens/defenders) together and set your mages to cast Body Ethereal and Luck. If you space them correctly, while the giants are busy with your chaff, your mages will be able to buff your units into something capable of taking the giants on.
4. The fourth option requires that you be able to forge Bags of Winds. If you can get one of your mages high enough to do so, forging this and equiping your Magister Arcane with them will do wonders. Script them to spam Thunder Strike. The Air Elemental that comes with the bag of wind will distract the giants long enough for you to pull this off. (Without them, the giants will be in your face, and you will kill your own troops.)
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