Evermore - MegaGame - Winner: AdmiralZhao!

[Hadrian_II]

BigandScary said:
I do understand, and I see how a SC would have kept me alive long enough to be effectivly but I had more chance of survival against the monkeydemons than the shadow vestals. I've beaten them before, but never early game blessed vestals, without aformentioned SC.

I dont see how some principes would be able to beat palankashas, principes tire as fast as palankashar regenerate their wounds.

[archaeolept]

well, hopefully he'd have more principes than lanka would have palankashas...

[Hadrian_II]

principes need lots of ressources, so the ratio would be somewhere between 1:2 and 1:3 what would not pose any real trouble for the palankashas.

[DrPraetorious]

Pankasha do not have a very high magic resistance.

A communion, spamming Banishment (or destroy demon!) can, if not win, at the least do horrendous damage to a Lankan army.

My Shadow Vestals are MR 18.

[BigandScary]

as I said, they are really hard to beat.

[Hadrian_II]

DrPraetorious said:A communion, spamming Banishment (or destroy demon!) can, if not win, at the least do horrendous damage to a Lankan army.

Banish is aoe 4 and 5AN damage, am i correct that the aoe increases by one per additional priest level, but how high would the damage increase?

[DrPraetorious]

Banish does 3 + 2 /level, area 2 + 2 / level.

Thus, archtheurgs spamming banish with four commuion slaves do:
holy 5 -> avg 11 pts each, at +2 penetration.

Against an MR 13 unit like a typical rakshasa, 38% under the template get hit each turn. Alternatively, they can smite a single demon for 25 pts.

Against an astral-bless vestal, you only hit 11% of the vestals under the template - and each shadow vestal *still* gets to negate the first hit. That's a lot better than nothing but it's not going to save you.

Now, if you're smart and only use the blackfaces instead of the demons, Pythium is in a lot of trouble. But even those guys you can't recruit 10+/turn like I can with shadow vestals. I still think he would've been screwed.

[Xietor]

Palankashas have mr 12, 30 hps, AND should regenerate as one of their double 9 blesses.

If you rely on banish you are doomed. Lanka is a beast early.
That is why any race that can neutralize them is doing the world public service and should be richly rewarded by the other nations.