Enlightenment of a SP Addict

[Boron]

Caseus said:
I have had abysmal success killing VQs with Earth Attack. My record is 0 kills for 20+ attempts. I've never seen so many experience stars on a Pretender before....

After checking the manual I will concede that Ghost Riders are pretty damn disgusting. 5 death gems gets you 33 longdead horseman and a FREAKING WRAITH LORD??? Who cares that they're not under your control. For 30 death gems you can have 198 horsemen and 6 wraith lords running amuck in some schmuck's home province.

That VQ sounds pretty terrifying. What's soul vortex?

RP is rainbow pretender. As Gandalf said, they work great on huge maps.

Soul vortex is alteration 6 . Needs death 3 to cast . It is a drain life damage shield . Works very well with Wraith lords too .

Because VQ is etheral trample hits only in 1/4 th of the cases or in 1/8 if the VQ has luck too . VQ has regeneration and not too bad DEF so no wonder that you had no success with earth attack .


With ghost riders it is 2 edged . If the defender has a castle and nobody on patrolling then you only wipe out his PD , the ghost riders disappear and the province converts back to his owner .
Ghost riders is an excellent spell to kill single SCs or smaller armies which attack you . Ghost riders is a reason why you should castle important provinces .

[Caseus]

Oh you're kidding. Wraith Lords can cast a drain life damage shield? That's just disturbing.

My Wraith Lords typically run around with wraith swords, chainmail of displacement, spirit helm, boots of flying, amulet of antimagic and pendant of luck. Their mission is set to Attack Rear. Should I script it cast Soul Vortex, Attack Closest Enemy instead? I could probably eat a whole lot of regular troops that way.

[Vynd]

Soul vortex can drain life from any nearby units, including your own. So be careful how you use it.

Attack rear doesn't work all that well, except with flying units.

[Boron]

Caseus said:
Oh you're kidding. Wraith Lords can cast a drain life damage shield? That's just disturbing.

My Wraith Lords typically run around with wraith swords, chainmail of displacement, spirit helm, boots of flying, amulet of antimagic and pendant of luck. Their mission is set to Attack Rear. Should I script it cast Soul Vortex, Attack Closest Enemy instead? I could probably eat a whole lot of regular troops that way.

With scripting against the Ai i prefer attack archers .
Very often his mages are close his archers so the chances are not so bad to hit the mages too .

One of my favourite Wraith Lord loadouts is :
- Blood thorn
- Lucky coin shield
- Boots of flying
- Jade armor
- Amulet of Antimagic
- Starshine Skullcap ( for +2 MR )
- Either a 100% FR or 100% SR ring depending if you fight an Air or a Fire nation .

Script : Soul vortex , Attack enemy archers or rearmost .

Luckily a Wraith Lord is built in etheral so normal troops don't hit him very often and he is quite save from trampling with this too .
So normally if the enemy can't kill the Wraith Lord in 1 turn he heals himself to full health again via Soul vortex + 2 Blood thorn attacks .

Humans will of course use more unfair means like a Drain life or wither bones or Petrify casting mage brigade or they will attack you with both fire and air magic etc. etc. .
If you die then in friendly dominion you still lost your equipment .

The wraithlord is good in SP but not so good in MP there Banelords are more cost effective and later Tartarians are way better too .