MR penetration

magnate · #1 August 8th, 2004, 01:31 AM

Quick question: does the Spell Focus work with the Ethereal Crossbow? (& do any of the other -MR items, like the rings of sorc/wiz?)

Bigger question: what shall I play next? I've just finished an SP game as Ulm: big map, 10 AIs, SC pretender, lots of forging. Made loads of mistakes, did things in the wrong order etc. Really like Ulm and would kind of like to do it again and do better ... but there are still about a dozen races I've not tried yet! Do you guys play a few races repeatedly, or try them all?

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Boron · #2 August 8th, 2004, 01:49 AM

i try to try all short and play a couple which i like often

i have always about 5 favourite races but this is not static but changes from time to time

i liked ermor + pan cw a lot e.g. in the beginning but now i replace them by mictlan and jotunheim niefelheim e.g.

ulm is cool forging is awesome

Graeme Dice · #3 August 7th, 2004, 02:10 PM

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Originally posted by magnate:
Quick question: does the Spell Focus work with the Ethereal Crossbow? (& do any of the other -MR items, like the rings of sorc/wiz?)

The penetration items only affect spells, not items.

Endoperez · #4 August 7th, 2004, 08:53 PM

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Originally posted by magnate:
Bigger question: what shall I play next? I've just finished an SP game as Ulm: big map, 10 AIs, SC pretender, lots of forging. Made loads of mistakes, did things in the wrong order etc. Really like Ulm and would kind of like to do it again and do better ... but there are still about a dozen races I've not tried yet! Do you guys play a few races repeatedly, or try them all?

Know thy enemy! I think you should try all nations, maybe only for one game and even then only briefly, but atleast a little. After that you know what to expect from them and also know what nations suit your playing style. Also, after you see AI killing your Ulmish elite armies with couple of Salamanders and want to try how effective they can be you halready have grasped the basics, and see that Salamanders are useable but very expensive.

[ August 07, 2004, 19:54: Message edited by: Endoperez ]

Agrajag · #5 August 7th, 2004, 10:03 PM

MY advice would be playing without SCs

I don't know... I guess playing a strategy game would usualy mean planning and massing armies for me, not researching a bit, summoning a bit, forging a bit and destroy the world with one unit :\
Maybe its just me who thinks the strategy games are more about armies than about a single superunit crushing everything, that belongs in RPG games IMO...

Endoperez · #6 August 7th, 2004, 10:48 PM

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Originally posted by Agrajag:
MY advice would be playing without SCs
I don't know... I guess playing a strategy game would usualy mean planning and massing armies for me, not researching a bit, summoning a bit, forging a bit and destroy the world with one unit :\
Maybe its just me who thinks the strategy games are more about armies than about a single superunit crushing everything, that belongs in RPG games IMO...

More to "rpg" games where the R stands fow Rogue and its descendants. Adom, Nethack, Diablo... In that scale it is hard to find it elsewhere. And I, too, prefer to play with conventional armies (with mages) but sometimes launch a combatant to see how it will do. I play single-player only, and in the Dom:PPP multiplayer game I played in I harassed the other player with SCs. They did not attack his armies, but his gem-producing provinces, the provinces all around his citadel, sometimes his castles, and even caused his nice sacred army being blinded and burned to cinders as his Ark and Forbidden Light -powered Master Enslave didn't hurt my Ice Devil...