Sphinx Killin Tips

[Cheezeninja]

Ok, here's the rundown, after downloading the absolutely wonderful middle-earth map from www.ascenciongames.com i couldnt resist the urge to do a little roleplaying as Sauron, dark lord of middle earth So after starting a game as Soul Gate Ermor (yes, yes, you all hate me) i have proceeded to carve myself a dark empire out of the eastern portion of the map with no great difficulty, but much dark laughter, pillaging, and fun. No great difficulty until i ran into pithium's hometown in angmar and the sphinx sitting inside of it. on 3 seperate occasions i have not managed to take their castle simply because the sphinx casts astral shield and im not able to kill it before time elapses (or so i assume... with the 500 odd units in the armies i send and multitudes of str 2 unholy priests it would take forever for me to actually watch it that far) This has resulted in the loss of some choice commanders due to inability to run away when time elapses because they are paralyzed. How do i kill that damn sphinx?

[Yossar]

What's his MR and Astral level? Soul slay, disintegrate, or Magic duel could all work. Otherwise just bring a lot high damage lifeless or high MR troops and some mages with high precision, high damage single target spells.

[Cheezeninja]

Off the top of my head i believe his MR is 24 and astral level is 9. And i've been attacking with all the byproducts of casting Tartarian Gate 4 times a turn. The commanders i've lost have generally been a titan of some sort with stymphian wings, a ring o regen, and some other stuff on them.

[ April 21, 2004, 05:13: Message edited by: Cheezeninja ]

[Graeme Dice]

You need some kind of armor negating weapons or spells. You can also just build temples surrounding him, and wait for his dominion to be overrun.

[Vynd]

The Last time I tried to fight a Sphinx, it cast Astral Shield and Soul Vortex and killed pretty much my entire army. The description for that Pretender says that its all but impossible to kill, and I'm inclined to agree. So I'm with Graeme, smoke the bugger out.

[tinkthank]

OT: I tried that link you gave to the map but cant get it to work. A ME map sounds good to me.