Best - worse magic paths

[Endoperez]

I think he means that his armies haven't starved (severely) yet.

[PhilD]

Corwin said:
What do you mean - "no longer starve"? I thought I saw the starvation message in Dom3. Do you mean - they no longet get desease from starvation in dom3?

I can testify that armies still starve, and get diseased, and other afflictions as well. What seems to have changed is the effectiveness of the Enormous Cauldron and Endless Bag - or is it just me?

[Agrajag]

Its just that troops are much more common and supplies more plentiful than dom2, so in comparison to dom2 the +supply items aren't that good. That's how I see it anyway

[Cainehill]

PhilD said:
I can testify that armies still starve, and get diseased, and other afflictions as well. What seems to have changed is the effectiveness of the Enormous Cauldron and Endless Bag - or is it just me?

Yeah, seems like they should've been boosted so they'd still seem worthwhile, given the increased supplies available, since one of them might have doubled how many troops you could have in a province in Dom2, and only allows 20% more troops now.

[FrankTrollman]

Cainehill said:

Yeah, seems like they should've been boosted so they'd still seem worthwhile, given the increased supplies available, since one of them might have doubled how many troops you could have in a province in Dom2, and only allows 20% more troops now.

They were. The Bag of Wine produces 50 supply instead of 25. All the supply items are worth double to go with the new larger expected army size.

That means a good marching army no longer needs 8+ Bags of wine, but can instead do it on more like 4 or 5.

-Frank

[Meglobob]

Corwin said:

What do you mean - "no longer starve"? I thought I saw the starvation message in Dom3. Do you mean - they no longet get desease from starvation in dom3?

No, starvation is alot more rare in Dom3, well in Dom2 it was fairly common. In Dom2 when embarking on a war u had to plan yr logistics correctly, equip supply items so yr army avoided starvation and disease. In Dom 3 u can just wing it, I have fought lots of wars across lots of maps now and lack of supply/disease no longer stops yr army in its tracks even when a enemy raises unrest or adopts scorched earth policy.

[dirtywick]

Meglobob said:

No, starvation is alot more rare in Dom3, well in Dom2 it was fairly common. In Dom2 when embarking on a war u had to plan yr logistics correctly, equip supply items so yr army avoided starvation and disease. In Dom 3 u can just wing it, I have fought lots of wars across lots of maps now and lack of supply/disease no longer stops yr army in its tracks even when a enemy raises unrest or adopts scorched earth policy.

I've found it's only a problem in wastelands and swamps, and even then only if you don't have swamp or wasteland survival. Most other provinces have plenty of supplies. It's not as much of an issue at all, but it hurts if you're not prepared.

[NTJedi]

Corwin said:

What do you mean - "no longer starve"? I thought I saw the starvation message in Dom3. Do you mean - they no longet get desease from starvation in dom3?

Units still starve in DOM_3 yet not as often because supplies are in greater number.

[NTJedi]

Corwin said:

Yes, I know what these both seplls are. I was curious about the synergy between them.

I understand your point, and I agree that swarm is a nice delaying spell. But how is this combo (with undead archers) different from using swarm with any other deadly missile attack? Like for example "normal archers with fire arrows"/"swarm" combo?

Because it's not always possible to use normal archers when advancing into enemy lines... disease, gold, morale, food supplies. Also not every nation has access to fire mages which can provide their archers with fire arrows.
On the same note not every nation can acquire the undead archers easily.

[Arameyan]

Talking of lamia queens...

What is their bonus to cast lamias? +1? +2? more?

Some EA pans may have N5...