Bandar Log

Folket · #1 July 17th, 2007, 03:43 PM

Micah try the sacred tigers. As far as I know it is the only sacred with three high attack, high damage attacks. With any bless they eat any ordinary unit. Also their other sacerd are just heavy infantry. But with a bless they will be heavy infantry with an edge.

Also I think Kissblade is far off on his assessments on BL's troops. Light Bandar warriors and Bandar warriors with iron cudgel should be the mainstay of your army, assuming you do not have a bless. I know what I'm speaking of since I played Patala in "11p very large" and managed to become twice the size of anyone else. Unless I have a bless I would always take prod 3.

Sandman · #2 July 17th, 2007, 04:12 PM

For a 100 gold unit, the tigers have terrible hit-points and protection. In big battles with lots of arrows flying about, they're likely to take heavy losses.

MaxWilson · #3 July 17th, 2007, 06:08 PM

On the other hand... Kailasa does have good access to Earth mages, right? I'm thinking of Iron Warriors and Legions of Steel.

-Max

Micah · #4 July 17th, 2007, 06:24 PM

Bandar log has a 110% one-in-four earth random on their cap-only mages, so no, not really. And once again you can buff an elephant's prot/make it ethereal just as easily and probably get more use out of it.

I'm guessing that the riders would be better against large units that couldn't be trampled, but that's a pretty small niche for them, and certainly doesn't justify dumping points into a bless IMO. The MR boost is the only main difference, but an 11 is still way too low for a 100 gold unit if you're fighting anything that's tossing a lot of MR spells at you.

MaxWilson · #5 July 17th, 2007, 06:55 PM

Oh, my bad. I had Kailasa <-> Bandar Log in my head and was thinking of Yavanas.

-Max

Shovah32 · #6 July 17th, 2007, 08:40 PM

Although your mages CAN summon the mages of both the EA and LA versions of the nation(yavanas/nagas ect) aswell as the astral summons and all of these summons are, of course, sacred and the majority of the summonable commanders are very thuggable.

TwoBits · #7 July 18th, 2007, 12:58 PM

Yeah, the tiger-riders do seem fragile for 100gp. You'd have to be very careful about which situations you use them in.

But it seems they have a few advantages over elephants: Half the upkeep, less a drain on supplies, a high defense (starts at 16), and although not outstanding, their protection is better than a pachyderm's.

Oh, and if the rider dies, you still have the tiger. Sure, it's not a Machakan spider by a long shot, but it's better than nothing.

On another note, anyone have any good ideas for thugging out the 4-armed summons?