How does one fight the sea?

Dinedel · #1 July 23rd, 2007, 07:58 PM

I'm a very new player, so please excuse my inexpiriance. I am currently playing a small game in the Middle Ages with one of my friends, whose nation is R'lyeh.

I am playing as Machaka, and despite having the upper hand at the moment, I have no foreseeable method of getting under the sea and attacking my foe directly. Instead, I suffer constant raids on my sea facing provinces.

What can I do to get under the water? As Machaka, I'm having a really tough time getting water magic, and I regret not taking it with my pretender, a lesson I didn't learn until later.

Do I need to forge items that let my commanders breathe underwater? What about my troops? Do I need to summon troops and commanders that are capable of fighting under the sea? How do I get the needed water gems if this is the case?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Loren · #2 July 23rd, 2007, 08:12 PM

You can forge items although without water magic this will be hard--look for mages you can recruit in various provinces.

Beyond that, in a few coastal provinces you'll find troops that can go into the water.

Jazzepi · #3 July 23rd, 2007, 08:29 PM

The two realms of magic that deal with breathing underwater are air and water. There's also a nature based item, manual of water breathing, that requires nature and water. So you really need access to one of those three schools to bring regular troops underwater.

That said, most undead are amphibious, so if you can summon large amounts of undead you can get underwater as well.

There's also a "ring of water breathing" and a multitude of different items that will allow individual commanders to go underwater.

Jazzepi

sum1lost · #4 July 23rd, 2007, 10:46 PM

Crush him with an absurd number of blood sacrifices to dominion kill him. If you can keep him from expanding, line your borders with temples, and blood sacrifice at them repeatedly.

This is the cheapest way to kill him.

Shovah32 · #5 July 23rd, 2007, 11:06 PM

Machaka isnt a blood nation. Are you sure you arent thinking of mictlan(and machaka is MA. MA Mictlan has no blood magic).

sum1lost · #6 July 24th, 2007, 12:48 AM

Whoops.

I misread that- thought it was mictlan.

sorry.