I hate horrors

[Aleph]

Nick - It seems to be like getting lost in the void - they just pop out wherever. Certainly a bunch have shown up in places I've never cast any spells from. If they show up over a fort of yours they will start sieging it - the first time it happened to me I was like "what paratroopers could have eaten through my PD" and was stunned to see that Kurgi was sieging a fort of mine.

Baalz - I've used Horror Seed a bit but, as an SP player, I don't get feedback on how it works - and, like you, I'm using it in conjunction with Astral Corruption, so I don't know where all the horror marks on my enemies are coming from. The only thing I've noticed is that sometimes after using it extensively I'll be fighting a big enemy army and sometimes after I kill someone a Horror will pop out. Whoops! Seems much less effective than a nice mix of Infernal Disease and Send Horror, overall, and it's usually only my pretender who can cast it, so it's a low priority for me compared to the other nastiness he can be throwing around.

I've also noticed what I believe you refer to in your second paragraph - I'm pretty sure I've cast massive 100+ gem spells and only been attacked by a regular Horror, which would imply that the Doom Horrors are all busy elsewhere. If so, you're weakening your hold on the world through the Claws/Prison combo, but it's still a small price to pay to be able to continue normal spellcasting and forging. Even a regular Horror is good enough to wipe out most commanders (as the OP is so stricken by).

Does anyone know the timing on Astral Corruption? That is, if you throw a Dispel at it, will you be attacked by a horror if the Corruption is dispelled? Not that there's much chance of any blood spell being dispelled unless you're in a large MP game and people gang up to dispel it, given the prevalence of blood slaves compared to most other gem types.

[Taqwus]

Off-hand, I'm not entirely sure that you -want- to enslave Kurgi, anyway. An experiment some time ago with a preplaced, player-owned Kurgi suggested that he is not responsive to commands, and has a tendency to adversely affect the minds of those in the province where he's stubbornly parked himself.

[Wish]

both true

luckily kurgi doesn't hang out long.

[Taqwus]

Of course, my really twisted sense of humor suggests that if Kurgi sticks around somewhere for a while, you should at least try to horror-mark it just to see whether horrors get attacked by horrors.

Interesting that he appeared. Without Astral Corruption -- I've seen only the Eater of Gods and the Hunter of Heroes, -maybe- the Eater of Dreams but I can't recall. Never saw Kurgi or Scabiel appear in 'ordinary' play.

[Maltrease]

It would be fun to return Kurgi's gift if you take control of him.

Perhaps it will be like eating anti-pasta before your spaghetti... and wondering why you still feel hungry after dinner.

[Aleph]

Taqwus - Actually, I'd definitely want to enslave Kurgi, just to do it. That province be damned - I've got me some Kurgi!

But then, it's these experiments that keep me entertained on the large maps once I've effectively won, which for Mictlan is usually when I have Construction 4, Blood 9. At this point, you can go bombing through the other research ranks tossing out valuable globals as you go with your commanders protected by your banishment spells, while other nation's mages are dying hand over fist just trying summon vine men.

[Olive]

Maltrease said:
It would be fun to return Kurgi's gift if you take control of him.

Like that ?



Just got it now. I was searching the word Kurgi because he seems buggy - unpossible to move him in spite oh his 10 move.