Enlightenment of a SP Addict

[Boron]

Caseus said:
I thought Ghost Riders attacked a province. If so, a SC inside a castle or protected by a decent army is likely safe. Earth Attack avoids the army issue entirely.

I haven't seen a lot of commanders that can withstand multiple Earth Attacks. I saw one Pretender, may have been Ctis, with Ritual of Returning and some spell that turns him into a wight when he dies. I cast 6 earth attacks that turn, and he died on the 5th. All it takes is a couple of hits per elemental.


Caseus

Yeah ghost riders only attacks the province .
But if there is no castle in the province or the SC is sieging a castle of yours etc. he can only escape via magical movement on his own .

Your earth elemental kills of course Ai pretenders etc. but on a human SC you can cast a lot cause they have only an attack rating of 9 so they won't hit often and with trampling this works not very well against high def and against etheral SCs it is almost useless .
A Vq e.g. is even unequipped almost impossible to kill by the earth elemental .

Normally ghost riders do more damage and they are lifeless too .
And most important with most nations Death 5 casters are easier to get than Earth 4 casters for earth attack :
Just a demilich with a skull staff with the sidebenefit that the demilich is a formidable unit on it's own too


For ultimate SP fun try the following VQ : Air 2 , Water 2 , Fire 2 , Death 3 , Earth 3 .
You can cast then Invulnerability , quickness , mistform , cloud trapeze for magic travel , mirror image , soul vortex , fire shield , phönix pyre .
For the ai this VQ is very hard to kill .





What is a RP ? Rainbow pretender ?