Summoned Units II - Negative Opinions

OG_Gleep · #1 April 11th, 2006, 03:23 PM

Caelum in one of my MP games is using corpse men a lot. Whats so bad about them? Low Protection/banishable is not great, but their tunder fist packs a punch. No worse then clockwork horrors and at 5 per gem ...thats not a bad deal.

I have always avoided them to this point, so had never used them or faced them. But my raiders accidentily ran into caleums pure corspe man force...my vans were outnumbered 3-1 which normally isn't a problem. They were killed after getting one attack off, which always is.

Oversway · #2 April 11th, 2006, 03:43 PM

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hes great if he can be controlled or if you only expect to use him short term

What is so great? 0 enc trampler but you can get that with abominations much earlier on (much cheaper, and you don't have to worry about having to reclaim them later). Prot is too low so even with regen they do not do well in a fight. With only the 2 misc slots, not much help from items. CB mod buffed them and maybe lowered the cost so they might be slightly better.

The same for corpse constructs, cb buffed them.

OG_Gleep · #3 April 11th, 2006, 04:11 PM

Ah were the comments to corpse constructions for base game? I only play CB mod, I always forget that not everyone uses it.

Morkilus · #4 April 11th, 2006, 07:19 PM

Corpse men got boosted big time in the CB mod. Just FYI

Endoperez · #5 April 11th, 2006, 08:14 PM

Conceptual balance, perhaps?

As far as I remember, Corpse Men are just tougher soulless in the base game.

Cainehill · #6 April 11th, 2006, 10:28 PM

That's why these ... polls / questions are kinda pointless these days. A significant portion of the community never plays without some version of the conceptual balance mods, while another significant portion never plays with mods period.

OG_Gleep · #7 April 12th, 2006, 11:44 PM

All the polls I have done have been from the my perspective and had the CB mod in mind. But a lot of the changes in the CB mod were minor tweaks, so can still be compared to base game. Your right that it is harder. But since there is a lot of activity on the forums, there aren't a lot of new threads, particularly game related threads, so I still think its a good idea to try.

Morkilus · #8 April 13th, 2006, 12:16 AM

I was wondering if anyone was using Will o' Wisps and/or Lesser Elementals in their games after the CB 5.4 change. I've seen that my Troll Kings have better things to do with their time once they've discovered Blade Wind, for example. Eh, maybe we should discuss this sort of thing in the CB thread, it probably needs a bump by now