abysia strategies

[Peter Ebbesen]

Kristoffer O said:
200 devils ??? Why isn't the game over ???

At a guess? There are at least three strong parties remaining, all hunkering down rather than being the first to launch a major attack which carries the significant risk of losing to the third party. Each player raiding and building up forces to hopefully gain an advantage - or waiting for the opposition to make the first misstep.

Another possibility would be that 200 devils quickly become 50 devils if they face a Staff of Storms + Wrathful Skies without sufficient protection.

Still, fortress mentality and the "let the other guy commit first and overextend" line of thinking probably counts for a lot.

[Soapyfrog]

I have had 180 devils (and 2 arch-devils) slaughtered by a single Golem (high prot, wielding 2 blood thorns) and a Harbinger who cast wrathful and fled.

On the other hand, with soul contracts, you can recover from that loss startlingly quickly. In that particular game I was on the counter-offensive 5 turns later.