Questions that have nothing to do with MP games I have joined

rabelais · #1 November 14th, 2008, 12:06 AM

1. Why does late TC have access to father of serpents, but not mother of serpents?

Does the former only get snakes in combat or also free recruits?

2. Does the Lord of Plenty have a +goodevent effect like the Lady of Fortune, or does he just get the 4 gems per turn, and the rest is flavor text?

3. what sort of "troops" do the lord of war and celestial general attract, is it exclusively militias it appears... or, is it dominion strength related?

4. Is there an updated database for which scales permit which events? All I can find is sunray's old one for Dom 2.

5. would a regen bless and a shroud save an aged crone or ancestor smith, or do you actually have to get them into combat to save them (or does disease prevent all regen?)

6. I'm having difficulty finding a unit database that would allow me to answer these sorts of questions for myself... the much used dom2 one was divided into nations and very readable, is there a version of Edi's latest that is at all similar?

7. Why would one take exactly magic 2 or drain 1 instead of the more point advantageous magic 1 or drain2? Seems like it needs to be modtweaked if that is possible.

Thanks for your time and all replies.

Trumanator · #2 November 14th, 2008, 12:21 AM

5: yes, this is one of the more common ways to counteract old age. However, they will still gain afflictions, just not as many.
7: not much reason. Magic 2 does reduce MR and fatigue cost, but not enough to be worth the points.

Tichy · #3 November 14th, 2008, 12:21 AM

#7 is a long-standing topic of debate around here. Short answer: no one ever takes magic 2 or drain 1.

Gregstrom · #4 November 14th, 2008, 05:16 AM

3. The Celestial General gets Soldiers of the East each turn - I think it's 4 units equivalent to TC infantry and 1 light cavalry type.

lch · #5 November 14th, 2008, 05:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rabelais

2. Does the Lord of Plenty have a +goodevent effect like the Lady of Fortune, or does he just get the 4 gems per turn, and the rest is flavor text?

He does. Lady is +25%, Lord is +15%. Smoking Mirror, for Mictlan, is +10%.

Sombre · #6 November 14th, 2008, 06:46 AM

Can we please distinguish between CB and vanilla in this thread?
I'm a little worried it will confuse people if we don't.

Lord of Plenty doesn't give gems in vanilla. Celestial general doesn't generate troops in vanilla.

lch · #7 November 14th, 2008, 08:30 AM

Ah, that did confuse me. Lord of War doesn't seem to generate troops in vanilla, too.

Gandalf Parker · #8 November 14th, 2008, 11:06 AM

This was a discussion of cbm mod? Ahh that explains much.

archaeolept · #9 November 14th, 2008, 10:44 PM

haha

the general gets 5, possibly upkeep-free, "soldiers of the east", which are t'ien c'hi HI w/ tower shields, and one light cav w/ light lance and composite. It's actually quite nice - not enough in itself to justify an awake strat, but lending to one.

actually, maybe it's a viable yomi strat - he has a standard, a bit of early arty, and prot 14 (w/ def 13) is pretty nice EA.

rabelais · #10 December 11th, 2008, 11:09 PM

How do I stop my Skratti from turning into dogs after they are done being werewolves? I lost 2 perfectly good thorn spears to this bizarre behavior. WAD?

I saw some discussion of using scouts to store items, but I don't see how this helps for non-ritual purposes.

In other questions does Area of effect =3 on a spell mean a radius of 3 squares or just 3 contiguous squares in some shape?

Thanks,

Rabe