how to play Carrion Woods ?

[Pocus]

ah ok, yes its the magic combo nature/death which is of interest with him...


and sorry for the messed english sentence.

Carrion Dragon has the following benefits:

Counts as a Manakin for purposes of Carrion Wood theme (is affected by the Carrion Woods Unholy special spells, notably, Mend the Dead and Regrowth)

Has a huge amount of hp. It's not uncommon to see him breaking the 400+ barrier in dragon form in positivie dominion.

Has a crazy amount of attacks with Sleep Vines and etc.

Has Recuperation.

Base form has stealth, so you can stealth into an initial province, your dominion is raised by being a pretender, and attack a province. This is how CW expands early for me.

His negatives:

Counts as a magical creature.

Counts as undead.

Can't fly (Obvious I know, but the first time I used him I changed form to fly somewhere and forgot he was a dead dragon


I like him with Astral/Earth.

[cihset]

Also to be taken into consideration is that the Carrion Dragon currently subtracts 2 from the starting magical paths when deciding if you will get a certain bless bonus.

I.e. if you buy 9 death and 9 nature, the game will belive you only bought 7 death and 7 nature.

This is because the default shape for a carrion dragon is the dragon form, not the humanoid form. Hence the -2 in paths.

[Pillin]

Oh, thats bad. Should be looked at imho.

[Pocus]

thanks Zen.

This level penalty is a bug I suppose (and I hope, I would not like a feature like this one!)

[Psitticine]

The Carrion Dragon's bless effects have been fixed. Barring unexpected complication, the next patch will be out very soon and spruce Ol' Viney right up.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Psitticine:
Barring unexpected complication, the next patch will be out very soon and spruce Ol' Viney right up.

What exactly do you mean by "very soon"? Is it more like "this week" very soon, or "next week" very soon, or more like "Very Soon(tm) from the makers of Real Soon Now(tm)"?

[ February 09, 2004, 06:13: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

[Pocus]

I would guess that very soon means within the next 141 hours, 32 mn & 17 seconds delta +- 1000 %

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

quote:

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Originally posted by Psitticine:
Barring unexpected complication, the next patch will be out very soon and spruce Ol' Viney right up.

What exactly do you mean by "very soon"? Is it more like "this week" very soon, or "next week" very soon, or more like "Very Soon(tm) from the makers of Real Soon Now(tm)"?

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That would be a programmers very soon. You've seen the devs post some of their formulas here. Its probably a long formula involving at least half a dozen variables and some open-ended dice rolls.

[IKerensky]

Probably a TSR kind of very soon , i.e:

Roll a D6 that the unit now roll a D4 on the following table:

1- days
2- weeks
3- months
4- years.