[Peter Ebbesen]

Ah, the outrageously overpriced VQ of Dom3.

In Dom2, she used to be a popular choice for a super combatant chassis (albeit a somewhat fragile one) and many people used her to moderate success in MP - not to the degree that they dominated the game, but it was an overall safe choice, everybody loves immortality on a pretender, and besides, we had all heard about the great success others had with her. A few used her very well, and one person, who was always willing to point out her weaknesses in public, did very well indeed with his nations in MP in general and very frequently used the Vampire Queen.

She got clobbered with the biggest nerf bat this side of seal-clubbing and was relegated pretty much to the dustbin of history.

Now, it needs to be said that the one person who was mentioned the last in the above was a most unique personage - namely one who was ultimately revealed as a cheater who had managed to add considerable resources to his nations in MP play, presumably via modifying the turn file (or possibly the host in his hosted games: he once boasted of having strong abilities at reverse engineering c compiled files). The revelation came, if I recall correctly, for 'tis 5 years ago and my memory is imperfect, with an undead Ermor that had to have gained many, many, hundres of bonud death gems to summon the leaders it sported as revealed by dissecting the turn files.

And thus the great cheater was cast out of civilized society when he failed to come up with a plausible explanation and his name was held accursed by the majority of posters and, unless he has rejoined the forum under another name, he lurks in the shadows still.

And it came to pass that various attempts at cheat prevention were enabled and the angels played a jazzy tune while smiling on the world, for the Vampire Queen never recovered from her undeserved clobbering plus changes from Dom2 to Dom3 affecting her indirectly (EDIT: such as gold/magic rebalancing, life drain nerf, etc). And so on and so forth goes the tale of yesteryear.


With the rebalancing in CBM to bring her closer to her old self, she probably has a niche role nowadays, but since I am playing my very first game using CBM right now, I obviously don't have the experience to make a general evaluation; still, I'd be surprised if it was more than a niche role.