Use of Wish ...

Cohen · #1 March 30th, 2004, 01:57 PM

How does this works?
I cast Wish, and open a text window, but I cannot write inside this ...

Someone can explain please?

Wyatt Hebert · #2 March 30th, 2004, 03:28 PM

I have a separate question about wish.

If you wish for Pretender units (like, say, a Daughter of the Land) and then GoR them, do they get their special abilities (gem production et. al.)?

I haven't seen this anywhere, and I thought I'd ask.

Wyatt

mivayan · #3 March 30th, 2004, 04:40 PM

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If you wish for Pretender units (like, say, a Daughter of the Land) and then GoR them, do they get their special abilities (gem production et. al.)?

I played with wish and GoR in an old almost-won game. Daughther of the land get gems. The son of niefel get ghost wolves (cold scale related summon). The moloch gets imps in battle. The ghost king does not get any ghosts (dominion related summon). They have their default magic levels.

It seems that everything works except dominion related summons which makes sense.

edit: after a few more turns the ghost king got some ghosts. strange.

[ March 30, 2004, 14:51: Message edited by: mivayan ]

Kristoffer O · #4 March 30th, 2004, 07:16 PM

Getting allies is a special ability of the unit. It is not god-related.

PvK · #5 March 31st, 2004, 12:03 AM

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Originally posted by mivayan:
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edit: after a few more turns the ghost king got some ghosts. strange.

Why strange? It depends on Dominion and only seems to happen about 1/3 of the turns even in a strong dominion.

PvK

mivayan · #6 March 31st, 2004, 01:57 AM

I was expecting it every turn, and when I suddenly got 6 ghosts at once I got surprised.

Tuna-Fish · #7 March 31st, 2004, 02:11 AM

yes you can, the text just isn't visible. that was a bug, and was fixed in one of the patches. Dl 2.08 from Illwinter.com and try again.

Zapmeister · #8 March 31st, 2004, 04:21 AM

I've never seen a Doom Horror, but I've heard they're stupendously tough. If so, is there ever a reason to wish for anything else ?

velk · #9 March 31st, 2004, 04:29 AM

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Originally posted by Zapmeister:
I've never seen a Doom Horror, but I've heard they're stupendously tough. If so, is there ever a reason to wish for anything else ?

Yes. Doom Horrors are extremely powerful against traditional living units, but they do have weaknesses, mostly against things which can't be lifedrained or soul slayed.

Gateway103 · #10 March 31st, 2004, 07:13 AM

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Originally posted by Zapmeister:
I've never seen a Doom Horror, but I've heard they're stupendously tough. If so, is there ever a reason to wish for anything else ?

They can also be brought down by paralysing/stun/fatigue attacks. I should know, I lost quite a number of them to AI dispossessed spirits packs when fielding them solo or in pairs. But then I was wishing 1 per turn, so I didn't care that much.

Also, perhaps just me, but the DH seemed to have strange behaviours in combat. They would attack on first turn, then sometimes sit idle for a turn or more, then attack, then sit idle for a while, then attack. They weren't fatigued (0 Enc), nor paralysed... just like to sit around a bit I guess. A few battles were lost because they didn't feel like engaging the enemies...

Anyway, one side-effect of Doom Horros, at least in 2.06, is that they tend to trigger bad events wherever they are located. Ever seen 10+ bad events of varying degrees happening to a single province on the same turn? Well, with enough DH parked there, you'll see it ^_^

-Gateway103