Gorgon as aSC?

[Wish]

plus, 10 jade maidens a turn (sauromatia gets a gorgon)

[mathusalem]

alteration 3 is research a lot ? lol !

and an unit strike by Awe is not petrified

[Graeme Dice]

mathusalem said:
alteration 3 is research a lot ?

It's at least 8 turns in, so you might be dead or have your capital under siege by time you research it.

and an unit strike by Awe is not petrified

Completely incorrect. Awe has absolutely no effect on petfirication.

[mathusalem]

Graeme Dice said:

Completely incorrect. Awe has absolutely no effect on petfirication.

Petrification occured when someone strike (even if he miss) but awe prevent someone to strike

someone awed can try to strike another turn

So
1°) Awe
2°) Strike
3°) Petrification

[Graeme Dice]

mathusalem said:
Petrification occured when someone strike (even if he miss) but awe prevent someone to strike

Except that it doesn't work that way in the game. Units will attack, flash brightly indicating that they failed their awe check, then take 999 damage and die. What you are seeing is the result of the MR check. The unit will only die about 50-55% of the time with a MR of 10.

[Nick_K]

Does Awe function like this with other damage shields or just petrification? Is this WAD?

[mivayan]

Nick_K said:
Does Awe function like this with other damage shields or just petrification? Is this WAD?

Fire shield only hurts a unit after it attacks. So an awe check means no fire damage. iirc in dom1 the attack didn't happen if the fireshield killed the unit, but that was changed in dom2.

WAD=working as designed. It surprised me, but themtically either check just requires looking closely at the gorgon.

[Shovah32]

mathusalem said:
alteration 3 is research a lot ? lol !

and an unit strike by Awe is not petrified

Alteration 3 and whatever construction level you need. The astral magic is expensive, gives vunerability to magic duel and costs a fair amount of points and, with that many points put into an SC/expansion pretender like a gorgon you would probably want to use it before you would be able to with your plan.

I personally like e9n4 Gorgon, nice bless, great prot and gets really tough when you cast personal regen(too bad you cant get a gorgon for niefelheim )

Ive also experimented with an e9w9n4 gorgon for pangaea. It wasnt worth the cost imo but my sacreds were incredibly tough and the actual pretender... Amazing(great prot and defence, full slots, natural pertrification, ability to buff with regen, quickness, protection and reinvig, fear and just general kickassery)