Early game use of Succubus

[Shovah32]

I never knew cat charm helped. I know theres the whole more femenine thing but does it actually help?

[Sombre]

Does the MR reduction offered by items even help the succubus attempt?

[Gandalf Parker]

Ive been putting it on Ozeidas or whatever that Arcos unit is. Maybe not the same but Im not sure if anyone has tested it. But I would think that a case could be built succubus atack being magical based.

[lch]

Shovah32 said:
I never knew cat charm helped. I know theres the whole more femenine thing but does it actually help?

I never saw any confirmation on this rumor so I think that it's just a legend. Have a look at this Dom2 thread: http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=271358

This reply by Kristoffer O indicates that it doesn't help a unit to seduce, but only against being seduced:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...648#Post251648

[Nick_K]

When I was splashing out on items I'd equip them with a bottle of living water, wand of the phoenix and boots of quickness, as well as a few defensive items.

[Shovah32]

A subbubus with a lucky coin(safety), skullface(skelespam), bottle of living water and lifelong protection is a very nasty assasin/seductress.

[K]

A Skull Earing is generally good enough to kill just about anything human or humanish, but more serious combatants won't be beaten by anything less than a powerful mage. That means that a big investment of items is generally not worth the time.

On a related note, in a SP game I once came across an indie province with Phantasmal Warriors. Curious, I sent in a seducer and got Boliver Wise, an Air 6 Illusionist!

[Meglobob]

Shovah32 said:
A subbubus with a lucky coin(safety), skullface(skelespam), bottle of living water and lifelong protection is a very nasty assasin/seductress.

Try to get quickness on there as well, so you can skelespam 10 skeles a combat round instead of 5. Reinvig's good as well, if you can get reinvig. 8 over 50 rounds you can skele spam 500 skeletons.

[Tuidjy]

While quickness on a mage worked well in Dominions II, I believe that in
this version of the game, it works a bit differently. It's fine if you
expect to slug it out in hand to hand, but I do not think it speeds up
casting at all.

[MaxWilson]

It does speed up casting through items. A W9 Helkarl with a Staff of Corrosion, for instance, does 3 bolts in 2 rounds.

-Max