Uses for Skratti?

[Actuarian]

Nick_K said:
If the skratti's magic isn't affected, why not use the wolf form all the time?

A werewolf can call wolves as an action. It's not a ritual spell. The Skratti werewolf form starts out with no magic paths, at least mine never have.

[FAJ]

From what i have seen, the Skratti werewolf has 1 water one blood. the wolf form has no paths.

The werewolf cannot call wolves, or I at least cant find how.

This is for LA (Utgard)

[Nick_K]

Regular werewolves can use the 'summon allies' command to call wolves. I don't know if the giant werewolves have the same ability. If you haven't been able to do it, they probably don't.

Calling werewolves with a skratti seems a bit wasteful anyway... there must be loads of better things to do

[Aleph]

Such as...

[Blitz]

Aleph said:
Such as...

Blood hunt, research, search for magic sites, take a province...

[Huzurdaddi]

I blood hunt with enough of them to get a decent blood economy going, this means a decent sized map maybe 6 to 8.

After that I use them entirely as thugs. I use them, generally in the following configuration:



I find them to be excellent thugs. I find that their strengths are:

- excellent mobility on the battlefield
- great damage
- decent skills
- cold resistance
- regen
- can cast quicken self

their only weak point seems to be
- terrible MR, which is fixed by Armor of Souls.

Overall I think that they are excellent for 250 gold, and recruitable everywhere.

The Eye shield is a little pricey. However it really does complete the package and makes it unlikely that the unit will get crushed by hoards of chaff ( of course it will eventually succumb due to it's non-zero encumberance ( the boots help but they are not enough, other items are difficult and/or pricey for Jot to get ).

[Graeme Dice]

Have you tried a vine shield instead of an eye shield? It wouldn't boost survivability quite as much, but would greatly aid the Skratti in killing high defense troops. I might also use the antimagic amulet or starshine skullcap instead of the armour of souls for MR, but that would mostly depend on my astral gem income relative to blood slaves.

[Actuarian]

Actuarian said:
A werewolf can call wolves as an action. It's not a ritual spell. The Skratti werewolf form starts out with no magic paths, at least mine never have.

I'm sorry about the bad information. That's what I get for posting both from memory of a November game and from work. I'll try to do better next time.