Best Province targeting ritual?

SelfishGene · #1 May 21st, 2004, 08:14 AM

Any particular Favorites?

I sort of, sometimes, like Imprint Minds, and the only thing ameliorating the 25 gem cost is the availability of Astral Gems.

Dome of Arcane Warding; again, not bad if you keep all your eggs in one basket. Not terribly expensive.

Blight is awesome for wrecking a recalcitrant opponents' bread basket provinces. The pop loss is helpful but its the unrest which is such an annoyance and income reduction. 50+ unrest and you've lost about 90% of income or so it seems.

Call of the Winds is obviously better in most cases than Call of the Wilds. I suppose in some 5-ish PD Provinces the Nature spell would be better. Those birds are pretty easy to break.

Does Baleful Star cause unrest or change a luck scale to misfortune? If so i might like it more.

And the ultimate question; Astral Projection vs. Astral Window? It seems like you get to choose between a) 50% chance of mage becoming feeble minded and b) no risk at all. Now i don't know about the rest of you, but sign ME up for choice A!

[ May 21, 2004, 07:15: Message edited by: SelfishGene ]

Norfleet · #2 May 21st, 2004, 09:18 AM

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Originally posted by SelfishGene:
Does Baleful Star cause unrest or change a luck scale to misfortune? If so i might like it more.

Both. But since everyone already has misfortune anyway, the latter effect is negligible.

Molog · #3 May 21st, 2004, 05:38 PM

It also curses a bunch of units.

Graeme Dice · #4 May 21st, 2004, 06:08 PM

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Originally posted by SelfishGene:
Any particular Favorites?

Well, if we are going for favourites, it would have to be black death.

Vicious Love · #5 May 21st, 2004, 07:51 PM

Melancholia ain't half bad, if your opponent hasn't put a dome up around his favorite provinces. Has to be accompanied by a proper invasion, though.

NTJedi · #6 May 21st, 2004, 09:10 PM

Depends on what the player wants to get done.

Black Death works great at killing population.

For a surprise attack the Ghost Riders is the best deal for most damage per gem. So powerful the people I play multiplayer with have Banned this spell. 5 gems for a wraith lord and large group of pale riders ! KaBang... the other summon attacks don't even come close.