Arcoscophile

[Firebreath]

Originally posted by Teraswaerto:

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Originally posted by Chris Byler:

I propose that anyone struck with a blunt weapon (sling, mace, club, fist, etc.) should take armor negating stun damage equal to half the weapon's normal damage, even if the weapon fails to do HP damage (because of the target's protection).

Something like this would be good, since currently swords penetrate armor better than maces, which is kind of silly.

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I'm not sure I agree. (Short) swords are good for penetrating the weaknesses in the armour, be it a thrust through the rings of chain mail, or a cut in the knee joint, or whatever. Hammers, maces, etc are good at battering things (rather than piercing it) - which is why it would be interesting to have dazed, concussed units as a temporary status (much like paralyse).


Back to the original topic though: I tend to prefer a fire 9 blessing with the heart companions rather than a death (or any other). They never come in large enough numbers for the death blessing to be much good, being resource intensive and capital only (unlike flagellants, where death 9 is rather awesome), and with the fire blessing they are an excellent unit of choice to put in the way of nasty things like niefel giants, ethereal units (ermor), etc. But I tend to use them without any elephants at all. Pretty much the only thing they're vulnerable to is trampling units (which they kill off quickly). Body ethereal works well on them too, of course.