Protection and Defense

[Quitti]

Yeah, I think Adons had three misc slots - so e9n6 bless or something similar with 3 bracers and some extra reinvig and it can't really die to normal armies without meaningful mage support.

[chrispedersen]

Well, its tough but it can be done.

Fatigue crits would still get through. So if I had to do it without mages, I would look to net troops to entangle them, and delay them to get the fatigue up.

And then either lances or mauls etc. You could win by timing out as well.

Of course sauromatia would just androphag em to death.

[Calahan]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Of course sauromatia would just androphag em to death.

They'd have to jump to MA first to do that though

[Redeyes]

Originally Posted by Quitti

Yeah, I think Adons had three misc slots - so e9n6 bless or something similar with 3 bracers and some extra reinvig and it can't really die to normal armies without meaningful mage support.

I had someone try that strategy against me when I played Pythium.
Between astral, hydras, independent minotaurs and Ferrus the Iron Mage the Adons were rather trivial to deal with, even when the best of them (on turn 25) had 25 magic resistance, 26 points of regen and 34 protection.

[Graeme Dice]

You'd have a lot of trouble getting their fatigue to shoot up as they have a base 5 encumbrance, and an E9 bless gets rid of all but one of that.

[Quitti]

Shields of accursed are excellent. But if you don't have access to astral+blood (or astral and empower blood) there are a few other candidates - weightless kite shield is a good one on any non-enc0 chassis, and so is black steel tower shields if you can get some reinvig. I remember using EA Vanheim Vanjarl thug/sc's to great effect against niefelheim - equipped them with flame brand, weightless kite, sacred shroud (had d9e6n4w4 bless or something in similar lines) and ring of frost - accompanied with mistform they were quite a match against any giants he threw at me. Might have had girdles of strength on a few for some added damage, but I'm not certain. It was a game with high amount of sites, I think I had somewhere around 50+ air gem income with gale gate and 40+ earth gem income with earth well at the peak so gems weren't really an issue there.