Fools Lament II - Ended - Mictlan wins!!!

[baboune]

Mind hunt would be a start... I would like to understand both...

[Soapyfrog]

Mind Hunt: You cast it on a distant province, your mage casts mind burn or soul slay on a randomly selected, non-hidden commander. Spell is resisted as normal (i.e. base + penetration + d6oe vs target MR).

If there is an astral mage in the target province, then I think it is nearly guaranteed your mind hunting mage will be feebleminded... i.e. the astral mage detects your mind hunting mage's silver cord and severs it, resulting in feeblemind.

Mage Duel: Or Mind Duel? I forget. Basically you can cast this on the battlefield, a random astral mage on the other side is targetted, you do a contest of astral skill and the loser dies, both mages die in event of a tie (basically both sides roll d6 + astral).

[baboune]

So, you use communion to increase your skills then mind duel, right?

[Soapyfrog]

Er, possibly, to be honest I have never used either communion OR mind duel...

[deccan]

baboune said:
So, you use communion to increase your skills then mind duel, right?

You only want to use Mind Duel if you know there is an enemy astral mage you want to kill. In my case, sages are cheap, and a fully equipped Archdevil is expensive, so gambling on mind duel was a good deal.

It's astral skill + 1d6 for each, and both mages die if they get the same result.

I don't know if anyone specifically communions just for mind duel. Most likely, if they can communion, they probably have more destructive spells to cast.

[deccan]

Wow, I get to live another turn!!!

Here is a picture of Mictlan's invading army:



Notice how many blood uniques he had in that battle?

[deccan]

Here is my defending army:

[deccan]

And here are the battle results. I believe that the only Mictlan commander to have survived was Ethanim the Archdevil. I know I won't survive another beating, but there is ever a good time to gang up on Mictlan, this is probably it.