Could u stop Gorgon?

[Xietor]

My gorgon never leaves my dominion, and she is pretty good in melee combat, with an aoe damage fire sword, lightning helm.

But the biggest drawback of the gorgon is low hps. But she can fly-and thus pick her fights. If I see a big army that looks to be made to kill my gorgon, expect it to meet another army. loaded with well equipped bane lords, war minotaurs, longbows,
and mechanical men.

And late game in my own dominion, you will face the gorgon in a haunted forest, and unless you have a lot astral gems, gift of health as well. Those dead troops turn into manikins that will aid my gorgon in melee.

Sure there are many good SCers, but how many come with built-in high protection, petrification, fear, flying, poison immunity? Best of all, she heals her own afflictions, unlike most other scers.(we have a "house" rule against using immortal gods, as that is considered super cheese).

By the time she appears after a brief nap,
i usually have 4 construction researched or am close.

With some nature artifacts, like eye shield, ring regeneration, snake bladder stick, silver hauberk(if have air gems) or black steel plate, she can easily take most indies.

Cyclops is one of my least favorite scers, as arrows tend to take out his only eye(:

[mivayan]

If the gorgon is alone in a province, a suicide squad of astral mages teleporting in scripted to cast horror mark x5, might eventually remove the gorgon permanently. Might need a lot of patience for it to work.

Strong fliers can hurt it before buffs are up.

[Wish]

screw suicide squad, have them all cast ritual of returning first.

[Xietor]

Unbuffed she has 26 armor, petrification, luck, regeneration.
She is not defenseless. And in a haunted forest, each dead flier is another target for the remaining flyers to have to kill. And typically the AI targets units before commanders.

Horror mark could be interesting. Would a gorgon lose to a horror? If I thought there was a strong risk I may have to give her some bodyguards, but, of course, that would limit her mobility unless i found some flying bodyguards.

[Teraswaerto]

Bodyguards don't really help against a Horror, as it will always attack the Horror marked pretender first, and usually kill it with the first attack.

It's possible that the gorgon could win with the right items, and scripting Petrify as the first spell should always work though.

[Wish]

have them "attack flyers", and in haunted forest they will neglect the manikins for the gorgon.

and frankly, regen on something with so little hitpoints isn't really all that hot.

[TirAsleen]

i am the only one that things its cool to play with a freak with only 1 eye? i like he can loose it but i played him not for a long time as i quitted to play SC for a while. without healers he is probably a thorn in your eye but hp tanks are good as SC no matte with just 1 yes or 4 arms or no arms, or no legs etc =P

[Taqwus]

Role-playing a one-eyed pretender might be fun, but... beware the inevitable Firbolg Sniper with Vision's Foe and an Eye of Aiming. Base prec 15, +5 net from the eye if memory serves, and Vision's Foe does 17 AN + eyeloss.

[Xietor]

Who said she has so few hps? In her own dom, she has plenty enough to make regen worthwhile, especially as i have 3 regens that stack on her.

[Xietor]

eye shield does wonders against a cyclops, and they are cheap to make and can get them early.