ryleh : mindbLast question

[Boron]

the mindbLast attack of the illithids is negated through magic resistance .
i planned to take magic 3 domain scale but if i would take drain 3 instead would that help my illithids much to make their mindbLast more efficient ?

and is there a commander in the game which is mindbLastimmune ? only mindless beeings can be mindbLast immune and a commander can never be mindless right ?
or does a commander enchanted with MR increasing items has such a high MR that the mindbLast of the illithids can only hit him with an open ended attack throw and so with such a small chance that its not worth the risk ?

which units are mindless and flying ?
i remember spring hawks and air elementals

since i plan using the unarmed illithids because they have not much resource cost / strat move of 2 against them they are probably quite efficient


are the illithids in general one of the quite good national troops which i even can use in lategame quite well ( then of course together with other good units ) or are they quite useless in mid-lategame ?
and has a horde of illithids quite a chance to kill a sc ? or is my fear true that their mr can almost not be overcome by the illithids mind bLast only like 1 of 100+ mindbLasts hits ?

[HJ]

A few answers:
Magic 3 will make your mindbLasts harder to resist by lowering MR, not the other way around.

Golems are mindless. You can turn a mindless unit into a commander with Gift of reason. Some spells, like Carrion reanimation, give you mindless commanders also (in this case, a soulless).

High MR on a commander helps, but is not 100% sure because of the open-ended dice, especially against large Groups. It's the best option if you have no mindless commanders.

Off the top of my head, gargoyles are also mindless & flying, IIRC and so is iron dragon, air elementals, and sylphs. Probably some others as well.

Hope this helps somewhat.

[ June 25, 2004, 21:48: Message edited by: HJ ]

[Boron]

Originally posted by HJ:
A few answers:
Magic 3 will make your mindbLasts harder to resist by lowering MR, not the other way around.

thnx that was a thought one edge to far by myself

a golem has 0 leadership but via items like crown of command and so on you can turn him into a leader too or ?
hm the gargoyles seem to me very dangerous for ryleh. which nation / theme is best suited for making quite large armies out of these ?
ulm has a main base 5 earth site but only 3E1F mages is there any national mage with 3E1A ? or a very high chance for that through random paths ?


another question : can you move only 1 friendly province / turn underwater ? my army + my leaders have 2 strategic movement but they can move only 1 province ?!?

does the voice of tiamat spell find all magic sites or "only" the elemental ones like written in the manual ?

if i take a void lurker as pretender ( aquatic , 0 strat movement ) or the underwater archmage ( aquatic ) can i bring them out of the water via global spells like teleport ? or is there an item or something like that which transforms the aquatic into amphipian ? a counterpiece to items like pills of water breathing which gives aquatics land breathing
i can't remember one but would be perhaps a funny little thing for the next patch best would be a unique which is quite expensive but then if you want your aquatic pretender can go on land after researching construction 8

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Boron:
hm the gargoyles seem to me very dangerous for ryleh. which nation / theme is best suited for making quite large armies out of these ?

Vanheim has 3E1? dwarves.

another question : can you move only 1 friendly province / turn underwater ?

Underwater movement is one province only.

does the voice of tiamat spell find all magic sites or "only" the elemental ones like written in the manual ?

It finds all elemental, and only elemental sites.

if i take a void lurker as pretender ( aquatic , 0 strat movement ) or the underwater archmage ( aquatic ) can i bring them out of the water via global spells like teleport ? or is there an item or something like that which transforms the aquatic into amphipian ?

If they teleport onto land without wearing an amulet of the fish, then they will die instantly on the next turn.

[Boron]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
Vanheim has 3E1? dwarves.

what kind is the 1? if it is elemental e.g. there is a 25% chance to get the 1 air .
are there any other mages or mages from magic sites which have 3E1A or at least earth+airmagic ? like a 2E1A which would be quite easy to bring up to 3E1A ?

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Boron:
what kind is the 1? if it is elemental e.g. there is a 25% chance to get the 1 air.

It's a normal random. The only mages in the game with random elemental picks are mystics, enchantresses, and Galdermen.