fleeing sc?

[Teraswaerto]

Depends on definition of "easy". If you have the research, the gems, and a mage that can cast it, sure it's easy. Not always the case though.

[FaceLess]

That is true, I didn't say that the casting was easy. But fielding the described (or differently equipped) wrath lords is a similar investment regarding research, gems and mages. Although death gems are probably easier to come by

[Nick_K]

I haven't used them too much in Dom3, but in dom2 a well-designed SC can hold a province against any size of AI army pretty much forever. I think that they are more effective than 'flames from the sky' in that respect

[lch]

Immortal units fighting in positive dominion, which flee because of the turn rule and have no place to retreat to because the province is surrounded by enemy provinces will really die without coming back, is that right?

[jutetrea]

What does woundflame actually do? Never crafted it, and its on hitlage...which means what? A contagious disease? Will it affect the wielder? Undead wielder?

For my banelords/wraithlords I usually use the setup Nick_K proposes. Although I found shield of gleaming gold to be more effective with the wraiths cuz they already have vortex. And I always use boots of flying (unless water) and chain of displacement.

So standard build:
vortex, attack rear
flame brand
shield of gleaming gold (charcoal for banelords)
spirit helm (wraith for banelords)
chain of displace
boots of flying
ring of regen
lucky charm

with changes as needed, MR, quickness, etc

[MaxWilson]

Plague is a death spell (Thaum-6?) which does IIRC 1-2 hit points and 1-4 fatigue damage per combat round to a unit which is infected. It also spreads (check MR) to any units adjacent to an infected unit. I think once you catch the plague you automatically die even if you rout or win the battle, so if you can manage to infect one unit with plague it will often spread to the rest of the whole army in big puffing black clouds of plague. My problem with trying to use Woundflame to spread plague is that when a Wraith Lord hits somebody with Woundflame they usually die immediately and thus have no chance to catch the plague. Very sad.

-Max

[Micah]

Don't give a wraith lord marble armor if you might come up against undrainable/lifeless enemies. It'll make him kill himself with his own chill aura since stoneskin lowers cold resistance. Not a problem if you've got soul vortex up and running, but if he gets hung up in skeleton-spam chaff for 10 turns it's bad news.

[jutetrea]

re: woundflame

Does it affect the wielder? Are undead affected? Or because it says Diseased, On hit: Plague Does that mean the wielder automatically gets diseased? Can this disease be healed via chalice, etc?

Isn't there a pretender chassis that comes with a plague bow... is that the same effect?