Simple newbie question

[Anglachel]

[quote]Originally posted by Duncanish:

Starting Spells

Ulm (Black Forest) - Sanguine Heritage (3 Death, 3 Blood)

First off, thanks very much for the list in its entirety. Next thing, I was interested in the above spell so I made a quick Vampire Queen pretender in the Ulm Black Forest theme with 3 blood and 3 death in magic paths. Now if the purpose of the list is to show spells already researched I would not need to research at all to have access to this or other spells right? Are they only tied to priests? The reason I ask is because I couldn't find the above mentioned spell in the ritual list or combat list when I looked. I am still playing Version 2.08 if that makes any difference. I haven't tried any others to see if this seems to be a problem but I can confirm the Mictlan one as working for either a vampire queen pretender or normal priest. Is this a list from Dominions I? Could that be why I don't see Sanguine Heritage anywhere in my above example? Thanks for you answers in advance.

[ April 10, 2004, 13:53: Message edited by: Anglachel ]

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Anglachel:
The reason I ask is because I couldn't find the above mentioned spell in the ritual list or combat list when I looked.

It's a ritual spell, so you should be able to see it in the ritual spell list. Check your units that you can build. If they don't include rangers, wolfherds, and fortune tellers, then you are using either the default theme or iron faith theme for Ulm.

[Anglachel]

Doh! In my rush to check the spell out I didn't put Black Forest as a theme. Thanks Graeme!

[Anglachel]

Ok, here are the stats on what you get for Sanguine Heritage :
Vampire Count
Hit Points:25
Protection:0
Morale:15
Magic Resistance:16
Encumberance:0
Fatigue:0
Strength:14
Attack Skill:12
Defence Skill:12
Precision:12
Move:3/14
Leadership:50
Magiceath-2, Blood-2 Reasearch:7
Special Abilities:Regeneration(3 per turn), Cause Lesser Fear(-3), Cold resistance(100), Undead(duh), Poison resistance(100), No need to eat, Immortal, Ethereal, Flying, and Stealthy.
Weapon:Life Drain

Not too shabby. Has a cool looking icon too. 44 Blood slaves to summon though so it wasn't out until turn 9 with Vampire Queen blood hunting every turn.

Edit:Oh, just noticed that they have the ability to make thralls in a fashion like the Vampire Queen calls Vampires buy sitting around and defending the castle.
Thralls:
Hit Points:10
Protection:0
Morale:17(nice)
Magic Resistance:7(ouch)
Encumberance:4
Fatigue:0
Strength:10
Attack Skill:8
Defense Skill:7
Precision:8
Move:1/12
Special Abilities:None

Basically drooling pincushions.

[ April 10, 2004, 15:51: Message edited by: Anglachel ]