The Behemoth

[Norfleet]

No, I understood you just fine. You were mislead by the blurb text, believing that the mage summoning the behemoth was drafted into the behemoth-control role and lost his ability to cast spells. However, that's not the case: The mage casting the behemoth-creation spell also creates the mage riding the behemoth.

[Arryn]

I, too, was misled by this poorly-phrased text when I first began playing Dom 2. I learned the truth about the spell by doing a search on this forum's old Posts.

[Norfleet]

I managed to totally evade this trap through a combination of age-old biases from other games: Firstly, in pretty much every game of this type I've ever played, summoning has always been a subpar to useless route, and the undead have never been worth spit.

So naturally, I saw "summoning, undead", and nothing about "blow stuff up", and quickly passed over it for immediate consideration.

Since then, I've come to realize that Dominions II has a far smaller list of stupid stuff than you find in other games: Nearly everything is useful to SOMEBODY, at some point, if not you. Even the stuff that I personally don't tend to use, in Dominions II, I no longer dismiss as a useless gew-gaw. Like those Vine Ogres: I ordinarily don't use them, due to my national and pretender preferences, but nor do I consider them to be useless.

[moodgiesanta]

Well, I've never summoned one due to the fact that I thought your mage was taken down while the elephant corpse was animate. I guess I'll try it now . . .

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by moodgiesanta:
Well, I've never summoned one due to the fact that I thought your mage was taken down while the elephant corpse was animate. I guess I'll try it now . . .

Ditto !

Considering that the Behemoth is one of the very strong death summons, especially early game, especially with a few buff spells.

You've been missing out.

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Arryn:
I, too, was misled by this poorly-phrased text when I first began playing Dom 2. I learned the truth about the spell by doing a search on this forum's old Posts.

Hah! That will teach you for reading the spell description. I just go by those that have a cool-sounding name, and try them out.

Of course, I also suck at this game