Champion's Trident

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Fortunately for you, AIs aren't exactly adept at USING such critters, either.

I, on the other hand, use them ruthlessly.

Last game, Navrunner, after discovering that they simply would not DIE, finally threw in the towel after more of them started appearing.

Yeah, they're real nasty. That's why I like 'em.

OK, this is not the first time I've seen you talk about your VQs, but I don;t know what they look like.

What kind of gear/orders do you give them?

[Wauthan]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Fortunately for you, AIs aren't exactly adept at USING such critters, either.

I, on the other hand, use them ruthlessly.

Last game, Navrunner, after discovering that they simply would not DIE, finally threw in the towel after more of them started appearing.

Yeah, they're real nasty. That's why I like 'em.

Now that's a happy poster.

Since you seem to have experience with using immortal units I wondered if you know how to make them stay alive? I thought vampires look way too good on paper but when I actually used them they didn't seem very immortal at all. In fact I never got even one of them back when it died even when I lost it in a positive dominion.

[Psitticine]

Have you checked in your home province? When Immortal units die in a friendly Dominion, they'll reappear eventually in your capital.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by PhilD:
OK, this is not the first time I've seen you talk about your VQs, but I don;t know what they look like.

What kind of gear/orders do you give them?

I tend to use a Rainbow Armor, Spirit Helmet, Charcoal Shield, Antimagic, and Boots of Quickness. Against meat targets, I go weaponless for the snacking, against hardened targets, I go with something like a sword of swiftness.

Combined with the VQ's innate abilities, this covers etherealness, quickness, a fire shield, and a hat that shoots stuff up while I cast: Then I go with the orders of Mirror Image, Personal Luck, Mistform, Resist Magic, and some other situationally determined spell. All of the equipment involved is fairly inexpensive, and combined with spell selection, creates a real terror.

And now that I've told you all this, I have to think of something else.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
I tend to use a Rainbow Armor, Spirit Helmet, Charcoal Shield, Antimagic, and Boots of Quickness. Against meat targets, I go weaponless for the snacking, against hardened targets, I go with something like a sword of swiftness.

So do my forces meet your definition of hardened targets then?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
So do my forces meet your definition of hardened targets then?

I could tell you...but then I would have to kill you.

Actually, I kinda have to do that anyway.