Fools Lament II - Ended - Mictlan wins!!!

Yossar · #1 December 1st, 2004, 04:08 PM

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Nappa said:
Yossar what did you use to defeat Mans large vine ogre/Bane lord armies?

I think I had two tactics for that. If the bane lords were alone, a whole bunch of ghost riders will kill a couple and then they'll all rout. I don't know if I ever managed it (I tried), but if you can capture all the neighboring provinces with ghost riders/call of the winds then the routing bane lords all die.

Otherwise, any decent lightning-immune army (I used a bunch of mechanical men) with a staff of storms, wrathful skies, and a few support mages casting evocations could handle bane lords and vine ogres. You really don't even need to be immune to lightning if you have a good amount of mages bLasting them.

I also had my own squad of bane lords with herald lances to counter enemy bane lords, but never got to use them.

Soapyfrog · #2 December 1st, 2004, 04:21 PM

The ghost riders dont work against the flying bane lord masses... the bane lords fly into melee and at that point the ghost riders will rarely get damaging hits on them. I did actually cast 3 ghost riders at a group of perhaps 24 bane lords, and they failed to kill any.

Yossar · #3 December 2nd, 2004, 03:03 AM

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Soapyfrog said:
The ghost riders dont work against the flying bane lord masses... the bane lords fly into melee and at that point the ghost riders will rarely get damaging hits on them. I did actually cast 3 ghost riders at a group of perhaps 24 bane lords, and they failed to kill any.

You just need to use more. 3 wouldn't be nearly enough. Sometimes it does take a while to kill one. Without a magic bonus site, it's probably an inefficient spell to use against mass bane lords, though. Unless you're pretty sure you can capture all the neighboring provinces and kill them when they rout. Otherwise you'll just kill one or two and they all rout. 30+ death gems probably isn't worth it to kill one bane lord with at most 40 gems worth of equipment.

Edit: Something else that works well is teleporting in a bunch of mages with water boots, ring of tamed lightning, and 1 staff of storms, then spamming false horrors, air elementals, and soul slay/enslave mind. I got about 4 bane lords in one fight. They lose their commander status but they're still decent troops.

Jarkko · #4 December 1st, 2004, 04:27 PM

An awesome game you seem to have had! Downloaded the turnfiles and unzipped them. Now could somebody give me a hint on how I can check the turns to see the battles? Thank's in advance

Soapyfrog · #5 December 1st, 2004, 05:19 PM

Unzip them into a new directory in your dom2 folder... then start dom2 and go to "play existing game". The game should appear on the list with the name of the folder you put it in.

Jarkko · #6 December 1st, 2004, 05:55 PM

For some reason I don't get to choose a nation from the list (I get the "Select nation" with only Exit as only choice). If I set up a MP server with the save I can then join the game, but get the you-don't-have-a-pretender-for-this-nation -message. Obviously I am doing something wrong, but as I am too stupid to figure out what, I would like to have some more hints

Should I possibly have some other file first available, or a mod or something?

Soapyfrog · #7 December 1st, 2004, 06:03 PM

Each "turn" is a seperate game, does that help? You should be able to put all the files from one turn in one directory in your dom2 folder, and then play that game...

Anyone else having problems?

Yossar · #8 December 2nd, 2004, 02:58 AM

The first turn on the website is missing the fatherland file and a few turns. I know the Last two turns work so try those.

Jarkko · #9 December 2nd, 2004, 05:34 AM

Thank's, that worked. Too bad I didn't get to see the massive battle between Mictlan and Machaka, I would really have wanted to see that too