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Teraswaerto · #1 October 7th, 2006, 04:46 AM

How is horror mark a counter against SCs? In Dominions 2 at least horror attacks were really rare even if you were marked.

Boron · #2 October 7th, 2006, 04:55 AM

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Teraswaerto said:
How is horror mark a counter against SCs? In Dominions 3 at least horror attacks were really rare even if you were marked.

They stack now in Dom3. And you might also be attacked by some of the unique horrors.

Within 10 turns if decently horror marked the enemy pretender should at least be once attacked by a horror.

It is not 100% reliable of course, but usually it works imho well enough.

Teraswaerto · #3 October 7th, 2006, 04:59 AM

Didn't know that.

Cool.

Nerfix · #4 October 7th, 2006, 05:06 AM

What's a "decent" amount of Horror Mark?

Boron · #5 October 7th, 2006, 06:12 AM

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What's a "decent" amount of Horror Mark?

That is the problem, i do not have yet have the manual and i have no info how it exactly works.

But in blitz with QM we each other horror marked our pretenders, iirc we both used only 1 astral mage for that who casted 5x horror mark, and within 5 game turns after that both our pretenders got killed by the slayer of gods horror

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And in the turn i called my god back he got again killed by the slayer of gods.

But that was with Dom version 2.8x iirc, so it might have changed.
Are there details in the manual?

Horror mark is an incredible fun SC counter, but you need luck

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It is very possible that within the next 3 turns the horror marked enemy SC gets killed by a unique horror, but it can also happen that he only gets one lesser horror attack in the next 20 turns which doesn't kill him.

But given how little research it needs it is surely a good spell to suicide 1 of your astral mages for horror marking the enemy SC pretender

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Arralen · #6 October 7th, 2006, 07:55 AM

If you think a bit more about this, you'll find it isn't fun, it sucks!

Basically, a spell that can spell sure doom on a pretender should only be castable by mages which have been 'power-upped' and equipped with all the nicest gear possible, or by other pretenders.

Either that, or magic resistance should easily negate... as it does with lots of other spells which are much weaker and more costly.

Endoperez · #7 October 7th, 2006, 08:18 AM

I thought Horror Mark from the spell wasn't the killer, but the Horror Mark from the Horrors' Astral Hooks. After one Horror attack, the pretender will get attacked more and more often.

DominionsFan · #8 October 7th, 2006, 06:07 AM

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Boron said:

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Teraswaerto said:
How is horror mark a counter against SCs? In Dominions 3 at least horror attacks were really rare even if you were marked.

They stack now in Dom3. And you might also be attacked by some of the unique horrors.

Within 10 turns if decently horror marked the enemy pretender should at least be once attacked by a horror.

It is not 100% reliable of course, but usually it works imho well enough.

Yep, that is what happened to my friend's first SC yesterday. He was rather unhappy.

This is definitely a good thing, that horror marks can be stacked now.