Battlefield Tactics cheese

[Endoperez]

Eventually Abysia will research Evocation 8 and have access to range 100 Pillar of Fire, so that they can use the same trick against anyone who isn't fire-immune yet.

If Caelum has Storm up (negating fliers, which Abysia shouldn't have too much trouble getting), having fast-moving troops, probably some kind of cavalry, would help.

The rules for retreating could also cause trouble for Caelum. In either Dom2 or Dom3, all-bodyguard forces run away much sooner than normal armies, but I don't remember the details.

[Meglobob]

Originally Posted by Endoperez

Eventually Abysia will research Evocation 8 and have access to range 100 Pillar of Fire, so that they can use the same trick against anyone who isn't fire-immune yet.

Except pillar of fire virtually misses everytime or seems to when I cast it! Good spell on paper, rubbish in actual use.

[Endoperez]

Originally Posted by Meglobob

Except pillar of fire virtually misses everytime or seems to when I cast it! Good spell on paper, rubbish in actual use.

Is it just with Abysia, or with everyone?
Thunder Strike and the mages who cast it both have a good precision, so Pillar of Fire won't come near that, but I don't see why Pillar of Fire would be that bad. I really should play few MP games, so that I'd actually find out these things.

[Meglobob]

Originally Posted by Endoperez

Is it just with Abysia, or with everyone?
Thunder Strike and the mages who cast it both have a good precision, so Pillar of Fire won't come near that, but I don't see why Pillar of Fire would be that bad. I really should play few MP games, so that I'd actually find out these things.

With everyone really, its a fairly high level spell so could do with its prec being raised from the current 0 to perhaps 5 - 10 or so. Its very frustrating when you have 10 mages cast it and every single one misses its target by miles, so even the AOE it has does not effect the enemy. The prec increase would just about make it useful from useless as it is now.

[rdonj]

Spells that attack the entire battlefield would also work, for example firestorm which abysia's units are immune to.