Some joy with Mictlan

[PvK]

Originally posted by PvK:
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I got my main conventional army cut off and starving though. Somehow, my heroic commander became diseased - looks like maybe they are not immune when their army starves. Contagion from hunger-sick troops?
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Aha - I think I figured this out. C'tis must be the Miasma flavor in this game - egad, that's nasty. I just got my prophet diseased by them. Grr. Miasma C'tis must be destroyed!

PvK

[Taqwus]

Horrors pick on just the commander (guards too?), not the whole army, unless it's due to something else like a "Send Horror" spell.
Certain items seem to generate more/nastier horrors than others. Contracts are fairly mild, Gift of Kurgi seems pretty bad, and from the description, the Forbidden Light should be _very_ bad.

[PvK]

Interesting and useful to know. Thanks!

I got to turn 20. Fought C'tis; realized they were diseasing my humans; sent the healthy humans and demons back, while my diseased troops formed a suicide offensive which did rather well, taking three provinces including the C'tis home province (not the castle) - they're probably going to be chased around the far side of the C'tis empire by their army of 150 or so which includes some horned serpents and other nasties.

While my army was fighting C'tis, Pangaea took a break from getting killed by Caelum to take a couple of my provinces, but my returning army with demons and devils showed up and stomped them.

Built some bone devils - not very impressive compared to Fiends of Darkness or Devils, though you can summon 3 at a time.

I also built a skull mentor to aid research.

A very nice heroic winged serpent mage showed up to volunteer.

I think I really need to do whatever is possible to stomp C'tis to get rid of the annoying miasma dominion.

PvK

[apoger]

>You've got to be really tough to survive one round of a horror attack.

It's an assassination type attack. If you have some guards and the marked character can cast a good damage spell there is a reasonable chance that they'll survive the smaller horrors.

[PvK]

Turn 23 - I cast Crossbreeding for the first time. Ooo, fun! I may have a new favorite spell...

PvK

[PvK]

Turn 25 - OMG Mictlipoctli!!! Cool!