Hidden in Snow - Page 3

SlipperyJim · #21 February 26th, 2007, 05:51 PM

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FrankTrollman said:
In underwater battles, it's all about armies sumo-wrestling each other while Shark Attack does its dirty work. Big piles of Sea Trolls backed up with a water mage who gets his own gems to cast Shark Attack with is actually exactly what the doctor ordered.

That's a ... brilliant ... and evil idea! Thanks muchly, Frank! My current Dom3 game is almost over, and I just preached Oceania out of existence, but that will be an excellent point to remember for a future game.

Ballbarian · #22 February 27th, 2007, 02:00 AM

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Does anyone actually use the 1-gem sea troll summon though?

I do when I have more water gems than I know what to do with, but not enough to blow on more kings without breaking the bank (and idle water mages). I use them just to fill up squads for breaking into the seas. Actually, that was more in Dom2, and not so much now in Dom3.

I usually use the sea trolls to guard the decked out, gem generating kings. The kings just sit back with a water elemental spawning bottle each and cast frozen heart, and/or sharks.

Kalin · #23 February 27th, 2007, 11:00 AM

I generally don't use the 1-gem sea troll summon, mainly because it takes forever to get anything going with it. The problem is that the trolls cost a lot of maintenance, so while you are building up, you're paying a fortune that could be used elsewhere. I'd much rather save the gems for sea king's court, even if it doesn't seem as efficient cost wise at first...

TwoBits · #24 April 25th, 2007, 11:55 AM

Any more experiences to report with this spell (the Unfrozen one, not the Sea Troll one)? Do heat/cold scales and/or season effect it? If so, in which way? Anything else anyone has noticed?

Rytek · #25 April 25th, 2007, 04:45 PM

I remember casting this spell quite a bit in one of my LA Atlantis single player games. Summer time always gave best results.

PvK · #26 April 25th, 2007, 05:11 PM

I haven't tried to see a pattern, but I'm almost always very happy with what I've received, especially when I don't have water-death-earth mages, and/or need a good undead commander. I have cold/magic/luck scales and am casting at an Enchantment site.

UncleYee · #27 April 26th, 2007, 08:34 PM

Maybe I'll try this again, but last time I cast it I swore it off for good. In addition to some undead troops (not the hardest thing to come by), I got exactly 1 mage, and his paths: DD. Thanks to this thread I see that such a crummy return was very unlikely, but it'll still take me some time to get over the sting of being so righteously gyped out of 55 gems.

Baalz · #28 April 27th, 2007, 01:02 PM

Yep, the one time I cast it I got similar results and promptly filed this one into the "completely useless for the price" spells category. Guess I'll have to try it again.