The Quick and The Dead [ Calmon WINS!! ]

[mivayan]

Ironhawk said:
That said: I have never experienced Utterdark before and I have to say that I think it is overpowered. Vastly so! Not only does it effect income, which is understandable. But it also effects Precision. And Attack. And Defense!!!! Its insane. So, not only is your economy destroyed - which would be bad enough - but your ability to mount any defense is also destroyed. I can seriously not think of a "correct" cost for this spell given that it basically just wins the game for you at a stroke (unless it is dispeled). There is no other level 9 spell which even comes close to this level of power.

A D4 mage with every army casting the 4 gem darkness spell would do that too... and that cant be disppelled. That'd be more trouble than normally now of course since ermor is fighting in so many places.

[solo]

Darkness is good, but only for Ermor's land battles, while Utterdark works everywhere and also cuts income almost to zero. In addition, it spawns a number of Indy undead attacks in enemy provinces every turn, too! What more could Ermor ask for from a global enchantment? What other global works as well for other kinds of nations not having death magic?

[Ironhawk]

Yeah the combat Darkness isnt so bad. As solo says it effects only the battle and not the income. Additionally, since its a battlefield-only thing, you can choose to engage or not engage an army that you know is using it - unlike Utterdark.

Only a little while till the turn - I'm anxious to see how I fared Things are always so intense when your capital is on the line.

[KissBlade]

Hmm... very bad news, I'm afraid Ermor put a lot more death gems into that Utterdark than I had thought.

[mivayan]

Pangea decided a while ago that if the superpowers sneeze, we die, so we'll just annihilate our age old enemies (since last week) the Utgard. We sieged their capitol, but through some minor setbacks we were this turn defending our capitol from their attack. But we won, no siege here.

Something odd and fun: A Boar, formely jotun woodsman, with age: 93 (21) has pretty bad age penalties. (Jotun woodsmen have base attack skill 12 and old age at 200).

Base attack skill: 8
experience: +3
old age: -6 (75% of base.... or 50% of the woodsman's base?)
blessed: +2
Darkness: -4
Current attack skill 3