Tips for A newbie Playing as R'lyeh

[Peacekeeper]

Another way to protect your summoning commander is to research the level 2(i think) enchantment spell (returning is in the name somewhere). Have him cast it the first round of combat(since hes getting attacked, that means this gets cast first) and whenever he gets hit he will return safely to your home city...which happens to be where he is anyway. At the cost of 1 astral pearl per combat, you will never lose your commander to being attacked by void summons.

[Endoperez]

Until he becomes feeble-minded and loses his magic, that is.

[Agrajag]

And doesn't he get damaged even if he is "returned" to his home province?
A single blow could kill him.

[shovah]

yes, i generally have a few immobile void summons defending my summoner (what else can they do?). The best idea imo is an SC (astral/ astral+water wyrm is good, air is good too) pretender with not too much magic and good scales (if you get good income you can steamroll anyone with massed ilithids

[Ygorl]

Does Ritual of Returning actually work?
When I played R'lyeh, I tried scripting the spell that doesn't wait for you to get hit but immediately takes you home (Returning?), and the dang Starspawn never cast it.

[Endoperez]

Did you notice that a gem is required to cast it? Other than that - the spellcasting AI works in mysterious ways.

[Vicious Love]

Returning is a battlefield spell which instantaneously returns the caster to the home province. Ritual of Returning is a ritual spell which triggers Returning immediately after the mage is hit. Returning is a perfectly viable means of surviving even the high-end void summons. Ritual of Returning... not so much.

Now, the spell description does state that it won't work if the caster is already in the home province, but I'm pretty sure the game treats the void gate as a separate province, like the arena.

[Vicious Love]

shovah said:
yes, i generally have a few immobile void summons defending my summoner (what else can they do?). The best idea imo is an SC (astral/ astral+water wyrm is good, air is good too) pretender with not too much magic and good scales (if you get good income you can steamroll anyone with massed ilithids

Wouldn't he get feebleminded after two or three tries, at most?

[shovah]

sorry for being unclear (reading it i see my mistake). I meant to say that a good pretender for rlyeh, not summoney (badly worded i know)

[Oversway]

I tried an astral kraken for summoning. I figured hey, recuperation. It didn't work very well, though. Even with a decent summoning skill he was feeble minded too often to be worth it. Would have been better to expand first, maybe then use him for summoning.