horror mark on pretender

[SalsaDoom]

Well, I seem to attract horror marks personally. I never actually -see- my fellas get horror marked, they just one day magically get one. This has happened to many of my pretenders over the years, and I've yet to see how it actually happens.

No one is getting close to them, they never go into battle without a pretty huge army to absorb spells and damage... I don't use any magic items that would get you horror marked... So I've no real knowledge of how my pretenders get the damn things in the first place. Unless there is some way of giving someone a horror mark from another province outside of battle (like seeking arrow, but with a horror mark). Beats me ;P Part of the reason I hate that damn thing so much.

Horror mark would be very powerful if it went away after you died from it, a near-guarantee that a pretender gets kacked is powerful, and I'm not sure why people seem to think otherwise. Any commander (I'm not sure what happens to regular units... I've never seen one of my regular units get munched by a horror before) that gets it is as good as dead -- certainly no non-pretender cmdr would make even to the end of the first turn against one, not against something like an Eater of the Gods or Hunter of Heroes. Now, a normal cmdr is out of the game once he is dead. But your pretender gets to be killed again and again and again. Its just lame. I'd be happy if I could at least mod it so horror mark goes away with death, for my own games at least.

--SD

[Breschau]

SalsaDoom said:
Well, I seem to attract horror marks personally. I never actually -see- my fellas get horror marked, they just one day magically get one. This has happened to many of my pretenders over the years, and I've yet to see how it actually happens.

No one is getting close to them, they never go into battle without a pretty huge army to absorb spells and damage... I don't use any magic items that would get you horror marked... So I've no real knowledge of how my pretenders get the damn things in the first place. Unless there is some way of giving someone a horror mark from another province outside of battle (like seeking arrow, but with a horror mark). Beats me ;P Part of the reason I hate that damn thing so much.

Maybe due to a magic item s/he was using? There's a few magic items that have a "small chance" of giving the wearer a horror mark, but not all of them mention it (explicitely or otherwise) in the in-game item description. I unwittingly got half my battery of researchers horror marked because I didn't realise lightless lanterns did that now (for lanterns it's mentioned in the manual, but doesn't even hint at it in the in-game text).

Though fwiw, I did have one non-pretender commander do nicely against horrors. A decked out golem SC (built mainly for fighting mass armies, oddly enough) who tore his way through three individual Hunter of Heroes, and one regular horror that summoned two more during the battle. I'm not sure if he lucked out against that insta-kill attack the Hunters get, or if being inanimate made it ineffective against him.

But yeah, for an effect as nasty, and most importantly permanent as that, it should maybe be a little trickier to research or cast.. or at least disappear on death.

[Folket]

SalsaDoom, Do you have summons that are as large or larger then your pretender when you go to battle?

Perhaps your pretender is singled out as a large creature and horror marked. If I remember corretly horror mark has range 100 so there is no goood way to hide from it and there is a blood 9 spell to horror mark armies from a distance.

I would still like to see the stats of the horror.

[Endoperez]

Okay. Haven't done this in a while...

See attachment for the horror. Spoilers! Beware!




Blood Vengeance is +2. Fear is +15. His weapons are all considered magical:
Code:

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Consume Soul

  dam: death, MR negates

Astral Fetters

  dam: special

Astral Hooks (x2)

  dam: -5 (but str added),

  three attacks, Horror Mark

Life Drain (x2)

  dam: 0 (str added), armor-piercing life-drain

Curse Luck:

  dam: special, MR negates

  AoE: 1

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[Nerfix]

Okay, now *that* is a horror. D:

[Meglobob]

Beware the S2 mage, who strides Dominions3 like death himself, killer of gods, hunter of the mighty, slayer of the powerful. All bow before the humble S2 mage, the most powerful creature in Dom3.

Lets hope balance is restored in the next patch/upgrade...

[Nerfix]

The meek and the Onmyo-Ji shall inherit the earth after Umor has eaten everything else.