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Hello players:
I have a few more general questions from a game I played listed below.
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I'm no expert, but I can help you a little bit. I'll do my best!
(D'oh! Ninja'ed! I'll leave my answers in place anyway.)
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1) About magic sites, I’m playing Maverni & I found the Gomorrah magic site, which enables the recruiting of Ba’al, Raphalite warriors, and Melquart. I build a fortress, lab, and temple, but there were no additional recruiting options in the recruitment area, why?
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Ah, you captured Hinnom's capital province. Only Hinnom can recruit their units from their capital sites. This behavior is by design. Otherwise, as soon as you captured a nation's capital, you'd be able to recruit some of their coolest troops and/or commanders. That would erode the differences between nations, and it would also make capturing a capital into a dramatically game-changing event.
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2) I tried to use teleport for a druid that was heavily afflicted to a province where I had the chalice (on the other side of a large map), but when I cast ritual spell teleport, the only option it gave (for teleporting to) was the province I was currently occupying. Is this a bug,  or am I doing something wrong? |
After you cast Teleport, you need to click on your destination province.
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3) I had a very strong guy snuffed out extremely quickly by a horror mark,   he had A4 W3 E5 S6 D5 N3 and had the following items: dimensional rod, crystal shield, skullface, robe of invulnerability, boots of messenger, girdle of might, snake ring, and was loaded down with 20 gems covering all the paths he had. I’d thought he was pretty much invulnerable, especially with the robe-of-invulnerability, he had a 25+ protection. He got snuffed quickly by the very first attack by the horror, was I just incredibly unlucky (with the DRN, dominions dice roll) or do these horrors have some additional attack ability that I’m unaware of that makes a high protection mage basically useless? … It teleported next to my guy and just attacked physically, didn’t use magic. |
Horrors have some nasty armor-negating attacks IIRC. They can be very tough opponents. The best way to keep your mage from being eaten by horrors is to avoid Horror Marks in the first place. If that's not feasible, then see if your mage can cast Returning to run home.
There are tactics to kill Horrors, but they can be a bit tricky. Horrors have high Protection, MR, life-stealing attacks, and Ethereality. One of the best defences is to surrond your mage with lifeless (so the Horror can't drain them) bodyguards. Crushers, Gargoyles, Living Statues, and so forth. Then start spamming some armor-negating damage of your own. Incinerate is a popular choice. Gifts from Heaven could probably squish a Horror, but accuracy would be a problem.
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4) I had another druid that listed (in the right-click possession’s view) him as susceptible to cold & poison. He had: staff of elemental mastery, starshine skullcap, robe of invulnerability, earth boots, ring of wizadry, tome of lower plains, and (clicking on fatigue) age 62(165)  . I was wondering why he was susceptible to cold & poison since none of these items had any negative effects (as many other items do) and his age was under the affliction range (62 < 165) ? |
The Robe of Invulnerability will make him susceptible to Poison. I have no idea why the druid would be susceptible to Cold....
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5) During several battles, I noticed a large grouping of my guys suddenly taking damage (green numbers appearing over a slew of my guys)  . The spells go by so quick it’s hard to follow what is happening & who is casting what. I think it’s from a leech spell, which the Lanka dudes seem to use a lot. Is this actually what’s happening or something else? And if so, what’s the best defense against it? |
Green numbers are poison damage of some kind. You can counter them with Poison protection. Poison Ward should work.