I hate horrors

[mivayan]

Tuidjy said:
I also remember having to protect an empowered Arch Theurg, whom I was
using for forging. I gave him the ring that let him have ten oversized
bodyguards, and a bunch of blood slaves. This gave him at least two
spell casts, and he was a high earth mage... :-)

Quickness, the horror gets close and eats three slaves, and then the four
petrifies always do the trick. Hell, usually the first one did.

Cant see why that wouldn't work even now. Need more magic resistance now though, what with some horrors having blood vengeance +7.

[lch]

It has already has been said over and over: If you don't want to lose your units some time later on, then avoid getting them horror marked. You don't have to use those items that leave horror marks. Sure they are good, but that's why they leave horror marks - it's like a deal with the devil.

The only thing that seems to frustrate people alot here is that Horrors are exponentially more powerful than their units and have no trouble at all to kill them on turn one or two.

Olive said:
Just got it now. I was searching the word Kurgi because he seems buggy - unpossible to move him in spite oh his 10 move.

He doesn't need to move, he has an attack rating of 0. He only needs to sit around since all his attacks are ranged and the blood vengeance alone should be enough to work for him.

[Nick_K]

I've heard somewhere that Kurgi won't move on the strategic map, and spreads madness in the province you have him in. Does he have insanity(100) perchance?

[Olive]

Nick_K said:
I've heard somewhere that Kurgi won't move on the strategic map, and spreads madness in the province you have him in. Does he have insanity(100) perchance?

Yes, I was meaning he can't move on the strategic map. He had no madness, it turned to 10 when I equipped him with his gift.

Bur I think it's just for fun in SP, horrors are too unreliable to play with in MP imho.

Has someone already mind enslaved the Eater of Gods ? I always miserably failed.

[Ranger]

[quote]
It has already has been said over and over: If you don't want to lose your units some time later on, then avoid getting them horror marked. /quote]

That's not the issue, you can't stop from being attacked, so you can't stop from being unlucky and getting a horror mark!

So why should horror marks end the game? Because it does if your pretenter get's horror marked, it's game over.

[lch]

Ranger said:

That's not the issue, you can't stop from being attacked, so you can't stop from being unlucky and getting a horror mark!

Yeah, that's why horror marks are bad. Exactly.

So why should horror marks end the game? Because it does if your pretenter get's horror marked, it's game over.

Why do you always repeat this even if it isn't true? When your pretender dies then he is dead, nothing else, you don't actually lose the game at all - you can still win it. He even comes back by himself, but the horror marks on him will stay, so you better make sure that you didn't give him any of those in the first place.

[SlipperyJim]

The main source of horror marks is certain items. Don't give any of these items to your pretender. Problem solved!

Oh, wait ... you can also get horror-marked by a handful of spells (or a very rare magic item) in combat. Okay, so don't take your pretender into combat. Honestly, a pretender who stays in the lab -- researching/forging/casting -- will not get a horror mark unless you equip a Very Evil item.

However, you might want to take your pretender into combat. Fair enough. Demigods on the battlefield can be pretty cool. Actually, combat isn't very dangerous when it comes to horror marks. As stated earlier, horror marks in combat are only inflicted by a couple of rare spells and magical items. Frankly, taking your pretender into combat is much more likely to get a curse, an affliction, or just-plain-dead. To further minimize the chances of getting horror-marked, choose your opponents carefully.

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Summary: Yes, getting horror-marked is No Fun. However, it's also very avoidable. Learn what causes horror marks, then avoid those things. Once you get the hang of it, your pretender will be safe from those nasty horrors!

Of course, other bad things can (and will) happen. The world of Dominions 3 is not Disneyland.

[Taqwus]

There's also at least one way of remotely inflicting horror marks on people -- Horror Seed -- although the odds of nailing a pretender with that are probably fairly low assuming a decent escort, and this can be made more difficult via dome spells.

Stumbling onto and getting unlucky with a Vale of Infinite Horror, or getting unlucky after killing somebody who's B9-blessed, might also be problematic.

But yes, if you're in battle, being smacked by a dozen Seithkonas casting Nether Darts or fending off F9W9 Helhirdings might be a more serious concern...

[SlipperyJim]

Stupid Lizard Shamans always Curse my pretender....