Niefelheim - Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?

[Illuminated One]

Originally Posted by AndonSage

I've read several Niefelheim guides, and one of them has the following for countering darkness:

Blindness is different to Darkness.
Blindness = cheap fire spell that targets one unit and can be resisted
Darkness = expensive spell that targets everyone and can't be resistet, but undead can see in the dark.

[AndonSage]

Originally Posted by Illuminated One

Blindness is different to Darkness.

Whoops, you're right. Not sure why I confused the two.

[AndonSage]

Baalz,

I've been reading and re-reading your guide to make sure I understand it, but I still have a few questions.

Protection/Wooden warriors brings these guys up to a 15 protection in human form

The manual says Barkskin (and those two spells are just mass Barkskin) raises Protection to 10, or adds 1 Protection if the unit is already at 10 or higher. Since the Jotun Skinshifter's Protection is 9, how are you getting it to 15?

The ones with a blood random are B3, which means with no need to forge a sanguine rod they can optimally blood hunt in a province using just 2 of them (rather than the 3 blood -1 guys with rods which is typical).

Do you mean 2 Blood - 1 other random guys? Otherwise I don't understand that.

I was wondering what you suggest for a prophet for this strategy? I would normally make a prophet out of a Niefel Jarl.

I'm also wondering why you suggest to research Construction 4 first. It seems to me that you need to take territories, so you can site search them, and the buffs you recommend for the Gygjas begin at Alteration 3 (Protection and Body Ethereal). Luck is Alteration 4. So why not go for Alt 4 first, since if you go with Constr 4 first, you probably won't have many sites searched by that time anyway? You need a gem income to take advantage of item construction, yes?