Affliction record?

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Wendigo:
boots+axe-> when trampling you are not using your weapon, so it's not an optimum combo as you will only use the axe vs critters with equal or bigger size. Thus there might be better options for the hand slot, basically something that gives benefits every combat round, and not ocasionally.

Yes. Specifically, a main gauche. Or else a lucky sword... either one is good. And cheap. A long weapon like a spear (especially a poisoned one) or whip (length 5, with various effects) is good for repels, too.

[Psitticine]

A big Golem needs a big weapon. This kind of job calls for . . .

MIDGET MASHER!!!!

Heh-heh-heh!

[Chris Byler]

Originally posted by Sammual:

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Originally posted by Vger:
This game is so addictive it should probably be illegal.

My wife argees with you.

My record for afflictions is 9, sounds like you are on the way to beating it.

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Hmm, let me see if I still have the replay from when I discovered the Crystal Heart bug... of course, the target in that battle wasn't inanimate, so wasn't eligible for some afflictions such as lost head.

Diseased
Lost one eye
Lost the other eye
Weakened
Chest wound
Never Healing Wound
Mute
Feeble Minded
Lost an arm

...oddly, despite dying hundreds of times he never got Battle Fright. Maybe gods are immune?

Edit: also, he didn't get limp or crippled, probably because he is mounted. So if you really want to see all the possible afflictions, give a crystal heart to an ordinary commander on foot and let him take a province by himself. You might need something to help you kill them faster after becoming blind, one-armed and feebleminded: I suggest a damage aura like rime hauberk. Snake bladder stick + snake ring might work too, I don't know if the poison cloud appears even if you miss.

BTW, is the leadership reduction from Mute cumulative with that from Feeble Minded? The god in the above example had normal leadership 4 (no undead or magic leadership). I don't remember what's normal for a freak lord though.

Cast Gift of Health. Your poor Golum will thank you.

Sammual

It really shouldn't work on inanimate and undead units (and possibly not on demons). Illwinter?

BTW - I hope that when you lose a head, you also lose the eyes and mouth in it (assuming, of course, that inanimate beings still use their eyes to see and their mouths to speak).

[ January 06, 2004, 20:18: Message edited by: Chris Byler ]

[Vger]

Hi,

Thanks for all the replies, y'all.

Saber, my script for Golems is Body Eth, Personal Luck, Twist Fate, then attack closest. Wouldn't he use his weapon?

If he doesn't, then I might take back the boots and give him Boots of Quickness rather than replace the weapon. I want to be sure to have a solution for magic/large/ethereals, etc.

I've come to the conclusion that even the Chalice will not heal Never Healing Wound as I've left it on two different Golems that had that affliction for several turns with no result. I'm working my way up to Fairy Court to see if she can help out.


Erborn is still alive and back in action. Though another Golem has killed far more. Erborn has only killed 259 while Topigog has hacked up 1193. I'm trying to send them in pairs, but it takes so much in resources and time to create their equipment.

I'm getting very serious attacks on all border provinces that I have to carefully manage any expansion so that I don't leave myself vulnerable.

I think I'm going to try bigger summons, one of the Elemental Kings/Queen or Father Illearth. (Illearth will require making some artifacts to pump up a Pan.)

It's such fun watching these HUGE armies get slaughtered by two of my Golems. Great, great game.

Ciao,
V'ger gone

[PvK]

My most afflicted is Popocatepetl the Mictlan Priest, who is up to eleven afflictions, and counting. He also has a horror mark, and a soul contract that is his only reason to live. That contract is providing the backbone of my army, at the expense of poor terrified Popocatepetl, who lurks quivering and blind in my home fortress, dreading the arrival of the almost inevitable day when his afflictions, or a horror, carry his soul away to the underworld.

His story is that he was diseased by miasmatic dominion, shortly after the previous bearer of the soul contract was killed in a surprise attack. Popocatepetl found the soul contract and undersigned it, for which the loyal followers of Gurgelor, my pretender, are enormously indebted and grateful. However, it also necessitated keeping him alive, both for the wages of the soul contract, and for Popocatepetl's sake, to postpone his payment of the ultimate price. The best we have yet been able to do to keep him alive has been to give him a ring of regeneration, which keeps his health stable at 8, but which has slowly been accumulating afflictions for him, which now list as follows:

diseased
lost one eye
lost the other eye as well
weakened
limp
crippled
never healing wound
mute
battle fright
feeble minded
lost an arm

and not technically an affliction, but also, the horror mark.

Edit: spelling errors - "bling" etc.

[ January 29, 2004, 17:45: Message edited by: PvK ]

[Saber Cherry]

My worst was a Blue Dragon pretender. He started the battle with 240 HP in dragon form, then changed to Frost Father form on turn 1 and attacked. Ooops, I think I forgot to change his scripting...

So in Frost Father form, he retained 240 HP but his new max HP was 10, and protection was zero. Thus, virtually every every hit gave him a wound, and he started out with a lost eye anyway. Needless to say, he died in battle with every affliction. That's when it becomes no longer worthwhile to resurrect him...

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by PvK:
diseased
lost one eye
lost the other eye as well
weakened
limp
crippled
never healing wound
mute
battle fright
feeble minded
lost an arm

and not technically an affliction, but also, the horror mark.

Oh, I think I have you beat.

The mean Abyssian Warlord, mean feller, Hall of Fame #1 with over 3000 kills to his name.

battle fright
blind
chest wound
crippled
diseased
feebleminded
limp
lost an arm
lost one eye
lost the other eye as well
mute
never healing wound
weakened

And he was CURSED as well as horror marked! 13 afflictions! Admittedly, some of those afflictions are afflictions I intentionally afflicted him with, like that chest wound there, as this was back in the old crystal heart days.

And the best part? Despite the immense pain he obviously had to be in, he singlehanded "slew" the final enemy pretender to claim the victory prize. He valiantly stumbled across the battlefield as the enemy pretender, himself feebleminded hacked and chopped through my troops as spells exploded from mages of both sides.

Finally, all that was left on the field was the enemy pretender, a pretty sorry wreck himself, and my even sorrier wreck of a warlord....they clashed in the center. Actually, it kept saying my troops were routing, but the warlord was paralyzed and couldn't move. So finally, the enemy pretender collapsed from heat exhaustion and eventually died trying to beat my useless, crippled, paralyzed warlord to death.

Victory was mine.