caelum

[High_Priest_Naresh]

caelum

1.practically all flying troops
great mages
can use sc pretender with:
tempest
boots of speed
spirit helm
dancing trident
wine sack
rime hauberk
these are great with the arch seraph(ine?) pretender,
60 clay men,
50 archers commander set to wind guide, and (tempest spell)
then attack rear most,
attacked ermor with this army, they had:
8 banes, 3 bane lords 1000 various undead (cannot be bothered to list them all) 5 undead mage thingies, 5 undead mammoth thingies

I stomped them flat!
all thier troops were at the front including the banes and lors and mages were spead out on the edges of the battle field

clay men were on hold and attack so all the enemies were three quaters of the way across the battle field before my god started moving! tampest spell wped out over 100 troops in one go, archers killed 30 and spirit helm killed 3
next turn god attacked the undead mages! killed them all with 4 attacks:
1 or 2 with dancing trident
2 with tempest
1 with spirit helm

clay men put up an inpenetrable barrier killing 50 people that turn archers failed to kill anything but injured several

put it this way the battle was over before turn 15
the score?
me:
lost 4 claymen
another 8 got battle afflictions(but not for long!)
al my archers ran out of arrows and killed thier bane lords! ha!
lost 10 archers

ermor:
864 undead... well errr... dead
6 banes dead
3 bane lords
all but 1 mage!
I love it!

[Edi]

And this isn't even the massively overkill Caelum of Dominions - PPP where lesser air elementals didn't cost gems to summon...

To give you an idea, just drop a dozen basic seraphs on some province with a screen of useless troops, have them cast quickness and then watch the battlefield completely overrun by air elementals. Now *that* was something to see...

Edi

[Truper]

Those were they days, eh? Now they have to do it with False Horrors...

[shovah]

yea gota love false horrors ghost wolves are also useful (but raise skeletons kinda puts ghost wolves to shame eh?)

[GriffinOfBuerrig]

Roger that, that is why i rock most of the time with emor

My problem with caelum is:

I scrip the first 5 spells (Quickness, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt) and what happens then: charge Body, aim, phantastal warrior, airshield!

[High_Priest_Naresh]

ah well arch seraph preyender with spirit helm and tempest... gotta love it!

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

One small quibble about this build item-wise: Rime Hauberk vs. Ermor? Jade (more speed) or Rainbow (reinvigoration) or even Hydraskin (regeneration) Armor would have been a better choice as undead are immune to cold effects. Also the Bag of Wine likely should have been on a seraphine rather than the pretender-- replace with Stone Bird (4 attacks!)... hmm, multiple commanders with Spirit Helm, Dancing Trident, Stone Bird, Boots of Quickness, Jade Armor = a bulldozer, and hyper easy to build as Caelum (keep hiring High Seraphs until you get enough E picks for SB and JA)

[High_Priest_Naresh]

but for one commander... come on! anyway the bag of wine was to keep my troops feed as I already had 3 nature that was...
40 out of 51 people fed!
trying it out on man marignon and pangea soon....
(17 nations match!)

[Bummer_Duck]

Heh, last time I played Caleum, the first 7 mages had a random in Astral...but it was random!...LOL.

So, script on the three masters was (Quickness, Communion Master/slave, Thunder Strike, Thunder Strike, Thunder Strike, Thunder Strike). Serious fun, at least for a while. :-)

[Vicious Love]

Etaoin Shrdlu said:
One small quibble about this build item-wise: Rime Hauberk vs. Ermor? Jade (more speed) or Rainbow (reinvigoration) or even Hydraskin (regeneration) Armor would have been a better choice as undead are immune to cold effects. Also the Bag of Wine likely should have been on a seraphine rather than the pretender-- replace with Stone Bird (4 attacks!)... hmm, multiple commanders with Spirit Helm, Dancing Trident, Stone Bird, Boots of Quickness, Jade Armor = a bulldozer, and hyper easy to build as Caelum (keep hiring High Seraphs until you get enough E picks for SB and JA)

Jade Armor would be even worse than a Rime Hauberk, encumbrance-wise. This "SC" would keel over from exhaustion long before it could do any serious damage, particularly if it were to cast more than one spell before going into melee. Even if you fix the fatigue problem, this guy has low HP, low protection, low defense, no regeneration or lifedrain. Awfully fragile, for a god. Especially one carrying so much pricey equipment.