Going down in style

[Kristoffer O]

Astral Corruption.

After that there is only blood magic in the game. Else you'll be horrified (attacked by horrors). Boost the spell enough not to get it dispelled.

Then send horrors. Under the corruption many of your horrors will be doom-horrors. You can lay waste to huge armies with horrors.

[Norfleet]

A secret to winning any game is to remember that you don't necessarily have to defeat your opponent, you just have to drive him beyond his tolerance for pain and frustration. It worked for the Vietnamese, and it can work for you. A victory by refusal to admit defeat is still a victory, after all.

If you can stubbornly resist being eliminated and dish out a level of frustration and pain out of proportion with your actual strength, you can convince your opponent to give up and either bother somebody else, or fold.

Above all else, quitters never win, and winners never quit. Never give up, never surrender!

[Starfighter08]

Since dispelling spells is discussed in this thread I might as well ask how do you dispell globals here.

[Wauthan]

You dispell global spells by either casting the Astral spell aptly named "Dispell" or by casting the global spell yourself (which creates a little tugowar between your spellpower and the original caster. You don't always manage to win).

[fahdiz]

Originally posted by Starfighter08:
Since dispelling spells is discussed in this thread I might as well ask how do you dispell globals here.

Either with the spell "Dispel" (under the Enchantment tree, I believe), killing the caster, or by casting a spell specifically designed to stop a particular global (for example, there is a fire spell which removes Eyes of God, and burns the eyes out of the caster for good measure ).

[Wauthan]

Good show Fahdiz! Forgot about killing the caster of the spell.

To stop this thread from being hijacked I recommend building tons of constructs and undead. Put the lot in a forward lowsupply province that's sure to meet the Caelums path. Build a fortress. He'll see a huge red square in the fortress and most likely assume that it is your main army, especially if you put some bigshot summons in there. While he's distracted sieging your fortress, which might take a long time since Caelum units eats a whole lot of supplies, take your real army and rampage trough his backyard.

[ March 10, 2004, 21:19: Message edited by: Wauthan ]

[archaeolept]

though killing the caster doesn't seem to work if the caster was a pretender god, which seems to often mess up my trying to get rid of some AI's Burden of Time.