MP Guide to LA Ermor - The Ashen Empire - Page 5

WraithLord · #1 December 18th, 2009, 06:50 PM

That makes sense Sombre, though I lack personal experience to verify that.

It seems as though rigor mortis + skelli spam is indeed a tough shell to crack unless you design specifically a counter from what you have available.

Seve82 · #2 December 18th, 2009, 08:14 PM

Well I think solar brilliance is mostly just anoyance as yer undead armies will mostly have 10+ mr after blessing thus casualties will be acceptable from it. Ye must think as russian in ww2 general regarding yer undead thousands... thousands there thousands here we got thousands to spare they don't

I would be much more scared if enemy spammed those fire/ice mass army kill spells. In my last game I seemed to lose tons of troops with ma ermor to that frost version... armies were mostly undead.

What la ermor must be most afraid is multiple front wars... they will kill him no matter what but those who fight ermor will fall with it.

Tolkien · #3 December 18th, 2009, 08:18 PM

That's why you make sure your communion master casting Solar Brilliance is laden with penetration items; eye of the void, rune smasher, etc.

Seve82 · #4 December 18th, 2009, 08:31 PM

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That's why you make sure your communion master casting Solar Brilliance is laden with penetration items; eye of the void, rune smasher, etc.

Ah one of em blind vs blind war mongers eh?

I find it quite sad that solar brilliance cant be coutered with darkness cast after it is cast...

vfb · #5 December 18th, 2009, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Tolkien

That's why you make sure your communion master casting Solar Brilliance is laden with penetration items; eye of the void, rune smasher, etc.

I'm pretty sure penetration items don't help with MR BEs.

I checked the debug log, and there does not appear to be a bonus.

Seve82 · #6 December 18th, 2009, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Tolkien

That's why you make sure your communion master casting Solar Brilliance is laden with penetration items; eye of the void, rune smasher, etc.

I'm pretty sure penetration items don't help with MR BEs.

I checked the debug log, and there does not appear to be a bonus.

Hmmm now I learn new things... I dreamed of gettin my pretender in ma ermor game to p0wn enemy army with master enslave with all mr negate items... he had s9

Tho if extra paths and mr negation worked on be spells it would be kinda kill'em'all.

Btw in that game I was holding off 2 other humans machaka and rleyh... after got 3rd (atlantis or oceania) I was just delaying inevitable. It would have been impossible if I hadn't ma ermor as I was able to spawn hundreds of replacements for my immence casualties.

- much editing too drunk to get it right on first try

Tolkien · #7 December 18th, 2009, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by vfb

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Originally Posted by Tolkien

That's why you make sure your communion master casting Solar Brilliance is laden with penetration items; eye of the void, rune smasher, etc.

I'm pretty sure penetration items don't help with MR BEs.

I checked the debug log, and there does not appear to be a bonus.

Well then, disregard that suggestion then.

vfb · #8 December 18th, 2009, 08:27 PM

I used Solar Brilliance in one game when fighting MA Ermor. IIRC I took about 30% blindness casualties each battle, with MR13 army units. It would probably have been better to use it in conjunction with a few higher-MR thugs. If I hadn't had the chalice to cure blindness, it wouldn't have been worth it.

As for its effectiveness, it was pretty meh. I got the same amount of disappointment as from using the Ark.

Viajero · #9 December 22nd, 2009, 03:37 AM

By the way. Is there any way to get other Archbishops (other than the prophet) to sacred level 4? Power of the sepulchre is too good to be only able to cast it with 1 mage

Sombre · #10 December 18th, 2009, 08:55 PM

Master enslave is a BF - those do use mr bonus.