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Old April 29th, 2009, 01:37 PM

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Default Re: Best way to lose a battle...

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Originally Posted by thejeff View Post
And it's easy to avoid. Don't combine battlefield fatigue effects and berserk SCs unless you're sure you can actually kill everything on the field.
By the way, this can happen even without the berserking. You only "heal" 5 fatigue per turn. If a battlefield fatigue effect like Rigor Mortis hits you with some unlucky rolls and you get up to 150 fatigue or so, it will keep hitting you with about 5 fatigue every turn thereafter, and without reinvig items or an Earth bless you may never recover in time to flee the battlefield before the 75 turn limit.

I have occasionally used Rigor Mortis + a single SC to clear out AI armies of 800-900 EA R'lyeh chaff. The SC may only kill 50-100, but Rigor Mortis will kill 400+. Edit: Although come to think of that I think that's because of the fatigue/damage conversion more than because of the 75-turn limit--hitting the 75-turn limit is in fact bad because it kills off my poison golem SC. Ah well, such is life.

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