Wind of Death useful?

MaxWilson · #1 April 10th, 2007, 05:53 AM

Hmmm, perhaps I'll have to reevaluate my opinion of decay (and of that Corpse Candle shield). I ran a quick test with Wind of Death against 30 or so Marverni and as far as I could tell affected none of them, but that might have been a fluke. You say it makes them retreat? Does it force a morale check, as if decay were a wound? That might make it worth loading up on the penetration items for.

-Max

Shovah32 · #2 April 10th, 2007, 09:42 AM

Im not sure about retreats but decay isnt exactly a weak effect. If they retreat thats great but, in the case of regular troops, it would be better if they DONT retreat. They gain 5 years of age every battle turn they are decayed meaning that provided the battle goes on for long enough all the affected units(who dont have some crazily high old age requirement) will be crippled beyond belief.

jutetrea · #3 April 10th, 2007, 11:14 AM

Would the effects of Wind of Death stack with a D-9 bless? There was an earlier post about affliction chance, etc and this may be good synergy or just a waste, unsure.

MaxWilson · #4 April 10th, 2007, 12:51 PM

I'll check it later on, but I don't see how it could stack if Wind of Death doesn't do hit-point damage. 450% of zero is still zero. It would be really wicked if it did stack, though.

-Max

Wish · #5 April 10th, 2007, 03:23 PM

i've played with it some, and it definitely causes a morale check every time they age.

Shovah32 · #6 April 10th, 2007, 03:26 PM

in that case: Wind of death+wailing winds=fun

Loren · #7 April 10th, 2007, 03:58 PM

A while back I used this spell to considerable effect. I was playing against the AI and decided to try something. I was being seiged by an army of about 1100 units. I had enough food from kettles and they couldn't hurt my walls but I probably would have lost in open combat.

My pretender could throw the spell with ease. I put Armor of Virtue on him, put him at the back of the battlefield and scripted him to cast it a couple of times and then retreat. I repeated this attack more than once. The armor got me out a couple of times and a couple more times I retreated. I whittled that army down to a couple of hundred units but for some reason I couldn't do anything more to them.