Hilarious R'lyeh Dreamlands moment (SPOILER)

VanderVecken · #1 October 6th, 2006, 01:16 AM

Hehehe, I can just see it.

"Thats a Prophet? Ya know .. I wanna be one too !"
... from the dreams of a R'lyeh Commander.

Taqwus · #2 October 6th, 2006, 04:36 AM

This does, incidentally, make R'lyeh Dreamlands quite dangerous to AE Ermor; all those not completely sane H1 cultists have a tendency to prophetize to H3 gibbering cultists.

So not only is there the usual mindblasting against the commanders (mitigated by using ghouls and generic living militia), but there's yet more banishment spamming...

Void Spectre is, so far, the only non-Pretender, non-Gift-of-Reasoned void commander I've found so far. Nasty pieces of work, them.

That national dream-hunting spell... is not in the manual. Looks to be a far safer version of Mind Hunt, 'tho, in that you can still nail astral nations with it, and you can equip your mage accordingly (hm: can he enslave and bring him back?).

Nerfix · #3 October 6th, 2006, 05:12 AM

I'd spam Horror Mark in Dreams of R'lyeh, but that's just me. Sweet, sweet HORRORS.

freykin · #4 October 7th, 2006, 12:03 AM

In my game last night as Dreamlands my starspawn managed to summon this:

He came already as a commander, no gift of reason needed

Was summoned by Cthugul, the hero Stargazer, with a summoning skill of around 12-13 at the time.

Endoperez · #5 October 7th, 2006, 07:10 AM

The Visitor is summoned! I thought it was a hero!

Daynarr · #6 October 7th, 2006, 07:15 AM

Nasty thing I say.

Wouldn't want to meet him in battle.

Nerfix · #7 October 7th, 2006, 08:26 AM

Cool!

B0rsuk · #8 October 14th, 2006, 02:59 PM

Quote:

freykin said:
In my game last night as Dreamlands my starspawn managed to summon this:

He came already as a commander, no gift of reason needed

No heroic ability ! BoOoo !

curtadams · #9 October 14th, 2006, 05:20 PM

I tried R'lyeh for my first game and was SHOCKED how strong it is. I took a Dominion/Bless strategy and I had units coming out my ears. I was having serious trouble building enough leaders to command them all, and basically stopped building troops after a while. There was one small island with two provinces and in 15 turns it generated about 200 freespawn. It felt like playing Ermor with the AI unable to recruit priests - I had that much. I had about as many troops as 5 AI's put together.

My biggest problem was what to do with all the freespawned triton dreamers. I had a stack of about 150 wandering around - I was trying to get them killed off but they beat a Kracken/Sea Troll independents. I was maneuvering them to the last ocean independent and if that failed I guess I'd just have an ever-growing stack of them chewing up supplies (do they have upkeep). I couldn't figure any way to kill them.

Has anybody checked Gateway for functionality? I had a Starspawn put on a Crown of Command and try to gate all those island freespawns over. He went over but they stayed. No way to check the prior turn to make sure I'd cast "Gateway" but I'd swear that's what his icon said.

Nerfix · #10 October 14th, 2006, 05:31 PM

Gateway style spells are broken at the moment.

Late R'lyeh is powerful and the pop death doesn't seem to be that bad to me. I also had leadership problems, and then freespawns would stack on huge piles and starve.