How to Play the Abysian Race?

[SelfishGene]

Salamanders rock at times. They killed my trample 20+ prot, trample, 34+ regen, Earth Mother in a PBeM. I would have crushed the Abysian army easily had not their large armor piercing attack ripped right into my Pretender and killed her in about two turns of combat.

[ March 13, 2004, 20:46: Message edited by: SelfishGene ]

[tinkthank]

Yes.
Their upkeep is a real issue however. Thanks to Wauthan (praise be to him), I have made a mini-mod with his help which makes Salamanders a bit more expensive but sacred. I think it is a nice balance. Their upkeep is then tolerable, and it makes for a more varied army.

[Zurai]

Problem with using a Staff of Storms as Abyssia is that a storm makes fire magic more fatiguing in combat, which sucks. Still, if you're facing someone like Man with heavy duty, accurate archers, it might be worthwhile.

[PhilD]

Most of the comments seem to revolve around magic; here's one it took me some time to understand...

Abysian troops (Abysian Infantry) require tons of resources. (the mages cost a lot of gold, while the troops, not counting the lava warriors, cost relatively little gold, but a lot of resources)

Consider using a cheaply built fortress, so you can recruit them from more than one place. I try to go with the Wizard's Tower, though the 120 design points hurt a lot.

[Norfleet]

Most of the comments tend to be based around magic because Abysian troops are fairly straightforward. They're burly, mean, and heavily armored. You build them in packs and then go beat stuff up. In many ways, they're not all that different from Ulm, except that they tend to work poorly with other infantries because of their heat auras.

[Yossar]

And a total lack of missile troops.

[Endoperez]

Staff of Storms does not hurt you in any way if you only use it with Warlocks. They will not cast Fire spells, and Storm doesn't hurt your other troops at all. But using SoS with your Salamanders and Dragons would be a bad idea... Maybe not if you would have one casting Fanaticism all the time, as that is not a fire spell, but he would propably cast few attack spells and go unconcious.