Horror Stories

Rytek · #1 June 11th, 2007, 04:37 PM

I was playing EA Arco one game wih an awake prince of death with death 9/dominion9. I had just researched construction 4 and flew him back to the capitol to equip him. i took misfortue 3 and needed to kill a few barbarian uprisings that had occured within the realm. This guy was totally decked out with blackseel plate, flame brand, eye shield, luck pendant, horned helm, boots of strength, ring of regen.

He routed the barbarians easy enough, so i decided to sight search. The next turn the ancient prescence showed up and mopped the floor with my Pretender!! Those sleep vines are murder!!!

Taqwus · #2 June 11th, 2007, 04:54 PM

...watching the Hunter of Heroes systematically eat anybody who made the Hall of Fame without caring about horror marks or the lack thereof, was pretty horrifying.

Shovah32 · #3 June 11th, 2007, 05:30 PM

Yea, all those horror attacks were pretty bad

Olive · #4 June 14th, 2007, 03:21 PM

Talking about horrors, is horror seed supposed to be usefull ? I successfully implanted 2 units, hosted about 50 turns (test game) and... nothing seems to happen. Did I miss something ? Was I unlucky ?

Olive · #5 June 15th, 2007, 08:17 AM

Does someone use this spell ?

I thought that lots of horrors should attack the target provinces, but I saw none during the ~50 test turns. There were a lot of commanders in the "victim's" provinces and nobody moved during the 50 test turns. I just noticed a few commanders cursed. I'll give it another try.

Has someone already seen horrors with that spell ?

Kristoffer O · #6 June 15th, 2007, 10:11 AM

Horrors leave after battle. If an infested commander gave birth to a horror it would most likely kill a commander and then leave. A scout would proabably not see the battle as it is an assassination. Attack the province and see if there are any commanders left, or if the troops or commanders are horror marked. I don't remember exactly how the spell works.

It is generally a spell thet works behind the scenes, so it is probably difficult to say if it works as it should.

jutetrea · #7 June 15th, 2007, 10:59 AM

I was having problems getting viewable results as well in an SP game where i had tons of resources. Getting attacked by armies of 800 or so I was looking for any advantage.

I finally fought one of the 800 armies that I'd seeded a few times and had 4 or 5 horrors pop up during the battle. I'm not sure how the seeds themselves work/mature/spawn but I think i killed the seeded units and had em pop out horrors. Kind of neat, but without a way to track how it works its a bit underwhelming. It'd be nice if there was a message "xxx lost a commander/10 guys to one of your generated horrors".