Quote:
The normal response to high-caliber undead is to spam dust to dust; a low-research, D1 spell. Unforunately, MA T'ien Ch'i, unlike every other age of T'ien Ch'i, has no native death access so we've been forced to use the S2, evocation spell Solar Rays instead. So T'ien Ch'i charged into the battle with a finely tuned and intricately crafted host meant to burn the undead to cinders with stellar lasers... only to find that the undead aren't nearly as laser-able as was previously hoped. I'm not 100% sure why; I thought that spell didn't allow for an MR save but it just doesn't seem to be zapping particularly well. Regardless, T'ien Ch'i has lost a few minor and one major engagement with Ermor and has been engaging in a fighting retreat ever since.
Either we will find something that does work or we will be overrun and assimilated into the Ermorian empire. Playing T'ien Ch'i gives you access to almost every type of unit and almost every type of spell this game has to offer, which is excellent. However, until you learn to use those troops effectively and until you do whatever is required to unlock those spells (research, forging boosters, forming communions, etc.) you are a slightly expensive and very squishy nation of humans wearing robes.
T'ien Ch'i: succeeding or failing really, really big with virtually nothing in-between.
|
I was planning to say it later, but now the debate arised, I'll talk about that.
Dust to dust is NOT a good spell against the Vestals. It offer you nothing that any other evocation spell do not.
Dust to dust do 22 AN armor in AoE 1 with precision 3. However, the vestals have 9 hp and protection 0. Any other spell kills them exactly wih the same way. A fireball kills them exactly as a dust to dust does.
Solar Rays work much much much better. It has much higher precision, and although its lower damage, it kills them right on the spot regardless. It does not allow you MR check. But my vestals have S9 bless, that means they ignore the first hit, including spells. That, however,is true for Dust to Dust, which, in addition, miss much more (due to lower precision bonus). And both kill them right in the spot.
The reason Jotun managed to have great success against Vestals with Dust to Dust in our fisrt battle, was becouse the Vestals were guided by indie priest, and had wrong script. Indie priest unholy bless area is tiny, and most of them went into battle without Twist Fate frim S9 bless. Then Dust to dust killed them, yes. But any other AoE 1+ will have done the trick: fireball, flare, lightning bolt, cold bolt... Some of thise have higher precision, some others have higher AoE. And anyone that does 9+ damage is so good to kill them as Dust to Dust is.
Solar Ray is the best low level spell against them imho. Its just that S9 bless force you to kill them twice. But that is so regardless of the spell used