Poison Golems, Harvesters, and Bane Venom Q's.

Uh-Nu-Buh · #1 December 31st, 2006, 08:58 AM

Shovah32:

pop dge--gotchya. Have you tried doing a Harvester Bane Venom combo to double the effects? I just wonder if it works. I also wonder how much of the enemy army I am killing in addition to his population....

poison golem--he rocks, but he doesn't heal, so he dies. As a thug he is severely limited. As a pop killer, he only damages your own population, so I prefer the Harvester or any stealthy unit with a bane venom charm.

Shovah32 · #2 December 31st, 2006, 12:29 PM

Just make the golem raid provinces you wont keep

ive never noticed him not healing but i dont remember him beings hurt so...

Taqwus · #3 December 31st, 2006, 03:37 PM

Astral Window gives you population estimates. Useful to know where to send Black Deaths, Volcanic Eruptions, Tidal Waves and Harvesters if you're the sort of evil chap who's inclined to do that.

Haven't tried both Harvester and BVC -- my usual BVC holders have been cheap Black Servants, when I'm not sadistically "gifting" them to an AI through messages.

Uh-Nu-Buh · #4 December 31st, 2006, 04:47 PM

Thanks Taqwus.

I still would like any tips anybody has for the Poison Golem. How to heal it would be nice (labs don't seem to work). Expensive unit, powerful unit, but seemingly very awkward....

Uh-Nu-Buh · #5 January 1st, 2007, 10:09 AM

Tip for anyone finding this thread via search sometime in the vasty future:

Poison Golems might be good for Ermor and other undead nations since they kill your own population so you can recruit more corpses.

HoneyBadger · #6 January 2nd, 2007, 01:26 AM

Uh-Nu-Buh, I think you mentioned a Harvester mod you had made? or possibly Hive. I can't find it whatever it is. Anyway, why not mod the poison golem a bit? Possibly give him soul-vortex style lifedrain and make him stealthy. You could raise the gem price somewhat to compensate or if it's possible, move him into level 10 (not sure we can access higher than level 9 spells for modding purposes though-I've heard mention of spell slots 10-15 being possible, but this may be a confusion over empowerment levels. I do hope we can add such in the near-future.) I'd also make him go "rogue" as per the Eater of the Dead to help with balance.

Shovah32 · #7 January 2nd, 2007, 01:14 PM

I really dont think he should be stealthy but a soul vortex might work.