Your experiences with "Stygian Pathes", please ...

[NTJedi]

Upon reading the description of the spell it sounds like actual battles can occur with nasty independents... unfortunately it appears to just kill X amount of units. And from all my experiences it's buggy and kills most if not all those using the spell.

Would be very interesting if nasty independents actually did fight your traveling army. Maybe we'll see this in Dominions_3.

[odd_enuf]

The times I've used Stygian paths it worked fine. Of course, I had a vampire lord leading an army of vampires, which has the advantage of being stealthy, which does help, and immortal, so even if the entire army is killed all I lose is the skull staff.

odd_enuf

[PrinzMegaherz]

odd_enuf said:
The times I've used Stygian paths it worked fine. Of course, I had a vampire lord leading an army of vampires, which has the advantage of being stealthy, which does help, and immortal, so even if the entire army is killed all I lose is the skull staff.

odd_enuf

Are you sure that immortality works in that case?

[NTJedi]

very true... does the spell use the current province domain where the spell is casted or the province the units are moving towards ??
and what about the other traveling spells (nature & astral) ??

In any case it's way too risky from the testing I've done.

[Vicious Love]

NTJedi said:
very true... does the spell use the current province domain where the spell is casted or the province the units are moving towards ??
and what about the other traveling spells (nature & astral) ??

In any case it's way too risky from the testing I've done.

Erm... the other spells don't kill off travelling troops, so that question verges on being a zen koan. The actual ensuing battle, if any, uses the target province's dominion(with HP retention from the previous round in the case of prophets and pretenders).

[Graeme Dice]

PrinzMegaherz said:
Are you sure that immortality works in that case?

It doesn't.