Newbie game 2 [Started]

[Potatoman]

Ermor can counter SCs in many ways... Most of them involve battle magic.

MR saving throw spells like Paralyze, soul slay, Enslave Mind and opposition will eventually cause a SC to miss his save... then he's as good as dead.

Against undead SCs Dust to Dust does great damage and is unresistable. Shadow bolt automatically feebleminds people around where it strikes, which can mess SCs up. Another way to fight SCs is via thugs- tough characters geared up for maximum damage rather than survivability.

It might be too late (I don't know what happened in Abysia, no scout coverage there), but it can pay to basicly look through the dominions spell list with a specific purpose in mind (say, countering a King of Elemental Earth) and check which spells (even summons) can work for that goal.

[RamsHead]

Saarud, don't make me smack you! You are not a sucky player, and you didn't ruin the game by any means. I hope you learned that national troops, while good for expanding and the mid-game, are ineffective against a late-game SC. Potatoman already pointed out alot of the things one can do to counter SCs. Also, against large undead armies, astral, fire, and death magic are all useful. Very few, if any, undead are immune to fire, and fire has quite a few spells that damage a large area. Astral has a number of spells that do increased damage to undead. Death has access to dust to dust, a high damage, unresistable spell, and it's bigger, badder brother, wither bones.

Oh, and don't be discouraged about what happened at the capital. Kailasa gave me a good whoopin' after our big battle, as you probably saw. Oh course that was because I was out of gems. Also, I brought the hammer down on you really hard in our battle. Who would have thought that undead mastery, master enslave, antimagic, and will of the fates would be such a great combination.

[Saarud]

Yeah sorry about that... please don't smack me Ramshead. I was just abit angry with myself because it feels that I let Kailasa down. I feel like I am a lousy ally. Ofcourse I have learned alot from this game and will use that in future games, but that doesn't help me now... does it? Both you and Potatoman are very good players...

[Potatoman]

Ow, my *** hurts!

[Shovah32]

Im really not sure if i should ask why...

[Potatoman]

Devas have twice as many hands to spank with...

[RamsHead]

I saw the action in Wynanna or whatever it is called, but I didn't notice any Devas. I assume what you are referring to happened elsewhere?