Best Province targeting ritual?

Norfleet · #1 May 22nd, 2004, 01:20 AM

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Originally posted by NTJedi:
For a surprise attack the Ghost Riders is the best deal for most damage per gem. So powerful the people I play multiplayer with have Banned this spell. 5 gems for a wraith lord and large group of pale riders ! KaBang... the other summon attacks don't even come close.

Ghost Riders has basically zero effect on an army holed up in a fort, and will not inflict any real destruction if you have one in the province....which you SHOULD, because otherwise, that province would burn down regularly anyway.

Cheezeninja · #2 May 22nd, 2004, 02:37 AM

Ghost Riders does great as a counter-insurgency measure though, when someone gets a army into your territory and you cant/dont want to guess where its going next turn. Cast it 4 or 5 times on the province with the army...weeeee
I doubt its as effective against SC's but lack the experience to be certain.

[ May 22, 2004, 01:51: Message edited by: Cheezeninja ]

Norfleet · #3 May 22nd, 2004, 03:37 AM

Yes, yes it is: I find it highly effective as a point-defense weapon, especially when combined with castles, so that the Ghost Riders...and marauding enemies, aren't inflicting much harm on YOU.

Yossar · #4 May 22nd, 2004, 06:55 AM

Ghost Riders do well against any SC that relies on life stealing (ie. a whole lot of them) since they're all lifeless. Anything with positive encumbrance and insufficient reinvigoration will eventually fatigue out. Helps a lot if they also don't have fire shield.

At 5 gems a casting, you can throw a whole hell of a lot of them at one SC and still come out ahead of your opponent in terms of gems spent.

[ May 22, 2004, 05:58: Message edited by: Yossar ]

PDF · #5 May 22nd, 2004, 11:55 AM

My fave is Horde from Hell, which is at least 5 times more effective than those crap CoW-s

Cohen · #6 May 23rd, 2004, 01:19 AM

I believe the ghost rider should be a little nerfed, or cost raised ... I know it's a very high research level spell ... but for 5 gems you've a very powerful strenght to annhilate armies and to harrass provinces temple undefended

tinkthank · #7 May 22nd, 2004, 03:56 PM

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Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by SelfishGene:
Does Baleful Star cause unrest or change a luck scale to misfortune? If so i might like it more.

Both. But since everyone already has misfortune anyway, the latter effect is negligible.

This is the second time I have seen you mention something like this.
Who is "everyone" that takes misfortune? Has there been some sort of tacit consensus while I was out getting cigarettes? And if so, why?