Artificial stupidity

[shovah]

Atlantian kings are great thugs, add on some decent equipment and they can all do nice buffs: all can do quickness+BoW, earth can do summon earthpower+invunerability, nature gets regen, fire gets fireshield, air gets mistform and mirror image, astral gets quite alot,death causes extra fear and i guess blood could cast blood vengance although ive never seen a blood king)

[Wish]

I have seen blood kings.

[shovah]

I thought they existed, just a sort of myth for me.

For equipping kings give non earth kings decent armour (i suggest either dragonscale for 18 prot and only a small defence reduction) or marble armour for alot of prot), a wraithsword(or hellsword if you must), preferably a horror helm or some other helm (maybe starshine), lucky pendant and then any extras you want like reinvig boots/regen ring or something. In non cb give then a bloodthorn and a charcoal/vine/accursed shield, this will give them fireshield/very easy to hit enemies/super high defence.

The best thugs imo are earth and astral kings, all they need is a wraithsword/blood thorn+shield, some reasonable armour for the astral and maybe a horror helm and they can run through small/medium sized armies. When fully tooled they can do great things (quickness+BoW+30 prot/astral and luck along with good equipment is amazing) and make great (and recruitable!) thugs until you get golems (i suggest you empower an earth king to summon them) and tartarians (i always have a d6 pretender where possible then just give him a skull staff and let him mass produce them while he/a vine king GoR's them)

[quantum_mechani]

shovah said:
I thought they existed, just a sort of myth for me.

There is exactly one blood king (unless you count all the various demon lords), a corrupted earth king.

It is pretty easy to avoid breath of winter casualties if you spread out your mages and set them to cast spells at the end of their script, which are good ideas to do anyway.

[shovah]

I meant an king of the deep (atlantis) with a blood random, i know about father illearth.

[Wish]

I have had such a king of the deep, but then I've tooled around with very long atlantean games.

[quantum_mechani]

shovah said:
I meant an king of the deep (atlantis) with a blood random, i know about father illearth.

My mistake- what I get for skimming the thread.

[Valandil]

"I thought they existed, just a sort of myth for me. "

are you saying that:

a) randoms aren't very random, i.e. that blood is less likely than others, or

b) you havn't built very many kings, or

c) you have been (un)lucky

I suspect c, but helps to check.