Short question on Solar Brilliance

[PvK]

Yep.

Players who are too impatient to figure out how to use things effectively are bugged and useless.

Just kidding!

Blindness is quite a potent effect. And there are ways to deploy an army so that the battle will take longer to reach a climax. That would make any slow-acting spells or tactics more effective than if you just charge straight into action. 5-6 turns is really pretty short, compared to how long a battle can go on for, even without a huge number of units.

PvK

[ June 09, 2004, 22:26: Message edited by: PvK ]

[Huntsman]

I recently stormed a castle where the defenders had both the Forbidden Light and the Ark. I don't know how either of them work, but I can tell you they definitely *do* work as plenty of my troops were blinded throughout the battle. Ouch!

I'm going to replay right now to see if I can figure out if it happens all at once or a bit at a time....

[Tuidjy]

I have never cast Solar Brilliance in battle, but I have used the Forbidden Light
quite a bit. It certainly works, and as Teraswaerto said, the longer the battle
goes on, the more troops go blind. A few times, by mistake, I had troops in
battles that the Forbidden Light's carrier won, and about 50% of the troops went
blind. It harder to tell what it did to the enemy, as they did not survive to
be counted :-)

As far as I am concerned, the spell is not worth using, unless your own troops
are blind to start with. As for the Forbidden Light, it is a great artifact that
I always try to stick on a SC.