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Originally Posted by vfb
The 3 Lesser horrors were just from 3 casts. I really needed a couple of AC upgrades on my horrors, but the roll of the dice didn't go my way.
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They probably rolled your way when my Naiad tried the GoH (just using 53 gems, I wasn't lucky with my nature gems, even though searching all my provinces) - she got doom horrored, and her body guards didn't stand a chance....
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I only cast BoT after Man told me he was joining forces with you, to gang up on me once Marignon was destroyed.
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Ah, ok, well, I wasn't sure he'd really join me until he went into your territory deeply. You know, people tend to be unpredictable
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and AC makes it tough to use the D gems income which is all I got out of taking over most of Ermor
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I found that you either need Blood or Astral on your mages to deal with horror attacks (blood for LifeForALife/Leech, astral for Returning), or some devils as bodyguards against everything up to a normal horror. Against the big guys, only Astral is helping. Would you agree? Is there more one can do?
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Your devils are going to cause havoc for my thugs, because that's what they are ... thugs, not SCs, and they need a chance to buff up before they can fight effectively.
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Where's the line between Thugs and SCs? Reading the forums, it's often a wide grey area, with only pretenders definitely being SCs. I was thinking of my Arch Devils as thugs as well (if not just mobile Fire artillery platforms when unequipped).
What do you think about my devils' equipment, is it acceptable, or what would be better improved with them? I found myself a bit lost browsing the forums for "how to equip well".
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It's the paralyzing poison from the tail attack that's most worrisome.
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Hm, I never watched that in battle, but that was just because usually nothing survived a single devil strike. Wasn't fighting giant creatures until now. It's that strong?
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Plus all my thug gear is still undead-killing weapons -- charcoal shields and flame brands aren't the best weapons against Aby. 
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Yep, sure, but I was expecting you'd have exchanged that already for other stuff, possibly Earth based, because you probably had quite a bit of Earth income (wouldn't Gath be blood hunting to forge BloodStones, especially with your pretender being forgy as well?)
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I'll play a few more turns and see if I can kill some devils off before I'm completely wiped out.
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Well, your BoT helped definitely in reducing my devil recruiting powers, several SoulContractors are going to deliver their souls pretty soon...
Another question - battle positioning, old stuff... "attack rear" is obvious in what you WANT it to do - now, what's causing flyers still to engage the front units even when they have this order? Do they need to be in a certain distance from those rear units to engage them instead of his front line forces, or....?