Wind of Death useful?

jutetrea · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 April 10th, 2007, 03:23 PM

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

Shovah32 · #4 April 10th, 2007, 03:26 PM

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

Loren · #5 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.

Wish · #6 April 10th, 2007, 03:59 PM

probably the 100 or so units with enough mr to not worry about wind of death

vfb · #7 April 10th, 2007, 09:38 PM

The manual says that if you give the order to Break Siege, but then retreat, your units die instead of being returned to the fortress (p69).

Loren, was your pretender attacking from outside the castle, or was he inside doing a "break siege"? It would be useful to know if the manual was wrong about this.