How do you fight the Niefel giants?

[Lingchih]

Umm, excuse me? If you petrify them, they turn into stone... ergo, they don't regen anymore... they are dead.

Had it done to me in an MP game. Very nasty.

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by Lingchih

Umm, excuse me? If you petrify them, they turn into stone... ergo, they don't regen anymore... they are dead.

Had it done to me in an MP game. Very nasty.

Sorry! Read petrify, thought paralyze.

Petrify could work on anyone - but niefles generally have a solid MR.

[Lingchih]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Sorry! Read petrify, thought paralyze.

Petrify could work on anyone - but niefles generally have a solid MR.

Umm. I'm tired, and this post is tough. Just send about six Petrify mages with gems against Niefel. It's sad for Niefel.

[SlipperyJim]

So I'm playing an SP game on the lovely Faerun Adventure map. Thirteen Mighty AIs versus little old Lanka.

Would you believe that I'd never played Lanka before? Man, I'm enjoying those evil little monkeys.

Anyway, my nearest AI opponent turns out to be Niefelheim. The AI even picked a N9B6 bless, which is pretty decent. (Not perfect, because Niefelheim certainly doesn't need more Strength, but pretty decent.) And I'm playing with the Better Independents mod, so the AI actually did a good job of recruiting Niefel Jarls & Giants.

The Niefel giants were scary at first, but my F9-blessed monkey demons took 'em down. And then I sieged his capital so he couldn't recruit any more of them. The castle-storming battle was pretty funny, because the silly AI put his Green Dragon pretender in the middle of his remaining Niefel giants. Green Dragons are not cold-immune. Needless to say, the pretender cast one spell, shapechanged to dragon form, and then fell unconscious.

My point is: Fire. Niefel giants are vulnerable to fire. Either swarm them with F9-blessed sacreds, or roast them with serious Fire evocations. Melt the big snowmen!

[Trumanator]

Originally Posted by SlipperyJim

So I'm playing an SP game on the lovely Faerun Adventure map. Thirteen Mighty AIs versus little old Lanka.

Anyway, my nearest AI opponent turns out to be Niefelheim.

Creepily enough, this is the situation I found myself in. However, being a n00b I still have the AI set to normal. I find Lanka (or any of the monkey nations for that matter) a challenge, because I tend to use PD as something of a crutch since I tend to freak out when I don't have nice contigous borders. This game has been teaching me that they aren't necessarily important though, and I am slowly but surely winning, having wiped out Niefel and nearly destroyed Yomi and Agartha. I am praying however that Caelum, Ermor, and Ry'leh leave me alone till I am done with Yomi, Agartha, Arco, and Ct's.