Ctis Desert Tombs

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:
Never underestimate the power of the Tomb Wyrms once you have got a few Tomb Kings reanimating more each turn - and having a domain that is hell to intruders is not too bad either.

Desert Tombs isn't really hell on intruders. You're thinking about about Miasma, which diseases anything that isn't cold-blooded. Desert Tombs is merely a minor heat+1, death+1, innately. It's not a domain of total burnination like Ermor, which causes people to starve...but even Ermor's dominion is merely unwelcoming, rather than flat out hostile, like Miasma C'tis.

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:
Never underestimate the power of the Tomb Wyrms once you have got a few Tomb Kings reanimating more each turn - and having a domain that is hell to intruders is not too bad either.

Desert Tombs isn't really hell on intruders. You're thinking about about Miasma, which diseases anything that isn't cold-blooded.

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Right you are. I was thinking of the "aarrrghhhhh-my-troops-are-diseased-and-dropping-in-front-of-my-very-eyes" feeling of Miasma.

[Kel]

Pfft, you end up getting disease after your troops starve in zero pop lands anyway

At least you can clean up Miasma. Pretty hard to revive a 0 pop province I guess a random event that moves population there and a few hundred turns with growth scales ?

- Kel

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Desert Tombs is merely a minor heat+1, death+1, innately.

Heat 2, Death 2.

It's not a domain of total burnination like Ermor, which causes people to starve...but even Ermor's dominion is merely unwelcoming, rather than flat out hostile, like Miasma C'tis.

Ermor's dominion totally destroys the usefulness of a province, while Miasma is easily cleared up.

[ March 19, 2004, 19:29: Message edited by: Graeme Dice ]

[NTJedi]

Would be nice if Desert Tombs theme allowed you to recruit at least the level_1 unholy priests.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Kel:
Pfft, you end up getting disease after your troops starve in zero pop lands anyway

Well, you can bring your own food, but nothing quite abolishes that "augh my troops are dropping dead in front of my very eyes" feeling of Miasma.

[Sindai]

I never understoof how Desert Tombs could cost so much more than any other theme in the game, yet appear to have few or no significant advantages over, say, Ashen Empire or almost any other theme you can name. Other than the really weak ones.