Cursed!!

[Epaminondas]

Originally Posted by Edi

The gorgon shield can help him if it gets through the MR 20 of the doom horrors, but just load up the Dom3 DB and take a look at the following guys:

Hunter of Heroes
Maker of Ruins
Eater of Gods (no kidding, especially the two latter forms with true ethereal)
Eater of Dreams
Abomination of Desolation

The Maker of Ruins and the Abomination of Desolation are pretty damned nasty and the other guys aren't exactly what you want to invite for a picnic either. Normal horrors are cute little fluffy-bunnies compared to these fellows.

But how often will my horror-marked Niefel Jarl SC meet those guys? He's already whopped Rarku, the Hunter of Heroes.

So what ought I to do with horror-marked units as a general advice? Do I suicide all but the most powerful SCs?

[Taqwus]

I don't see the point in suiciding them, since death that way isn't guaranteed to be any nicer than death by horror if you're already highly horror-marked. You just need to make sure that they either can cope, or that your plans won't be hampered too much if they find out that they can't. Coping requires high magic resistance to avoid the instant-death attacks, at a very minimum.

Don't forget the Slave to Unreason, either. Interesting fellow, Kurgi.

[Epaminondas]

Originally Posted by Taqwus

I don't see the point in suiciding them, since death that way isn't guaranteed to be any nicer than death by horror if you're already highly horror-marked. You just need to make sure that they either can cope, or that your plans won't be hampered too much if they find out that they can't. Coping requires high magic resistance to avoid the instant-death attacks, at a very minimum.

Don't forget the Slave to Unreason, either. Interesting fellow, Kurgi.

I thought someone said horror marks spread to other units? How do you generally avoid getting horror marked anyways?

[Zeldor]

Edi:

I remember when my Treelord once charmed Abomination of Desolation

[Edi]

Horror marks don't spread. Some specific units can spread diseases to other units, but they have a special icon that tell you that. If you have sites in a province that horrormark units, then you can get random horrormarks.

[Taqwus]

There's also 'Horror Seed', a nasty ritual which causes the victim to be a contagious horror-marker, essentially. And the victims sprout lesser horrors if and when they die in battle, if memory serves. I don't recall if anybody's tested the frequency of horror-marking.

But generally speaking, unless you're sitting around in the Vale of Infinite Horror, carrying horror-marking equipment, facing astral mages who use Horror Mark or Astral Geyser, get hit by a horror sent by somebody else (horrors tend to have Astral Hooks which horror-mark you; also, non-blood forging or rituals during Astral Corruption), or cast spells which horror-mark the caster (Hell Power comes to mind)... they're not spontaneous.

Don't sit in the Vale wielding Magebane, a Robe of the Archmage, the Boots of the Planes, the Forbidden Light and the Gift of Kurgi unless you enjoy making very otherworldly and violent acquaintances.

[JaghataiKhan]

Originally Posted by Taqwus

There's also 'Horror Seed', a nasty ritual which causes the victim to be a contagious horror-marker, essentially. And the victims sprout lesser horrors if and when they die in battle, if memory serves. I don't recall if anybody's tested the frequency of horror-marking.

But generally speaking, unless you're sitting around in the Vale of Infinite Horror, carrying horror-marking equipment, facing astral mages who use Horror Mark or Astral Geyser, get hit by a horror sent by somebody else (horrors tend to have Astral Hooks which horror-mark you; also, non-blood forging or rituals during Astral Corruption), or cast spells which horror-mark the caster (Hell Power comes to mind)... they're not spontaneous.

Don't sit in the Vale wielding Magebane, a Robe of the Archmage, the Boots of the Planes, the Forbidden Light and the Gift of Kurgi unless you enjoy making very otherworldly and violent acquaintances.

What are all these items and places? Can I read the game content in some library, Dominionapedia?

[Edi]

Originally Posted by JaghataiKhan

What are all these items and places? Can I read the game content in some library, Dominionapedia?

There's a Dominions 3 Strategy Wiki but it's very barebones. Basic mechanics of the game and item descriptions etc are in the manual. There are also other reference documents available on the forums, such as the Dom3 DB. No descriptive text in that, just hard data. Otherwise scour the forums. Lots of discussions about many of these things.