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Old June 16th, 2007, 04:03 AM
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> It's a strong unit yet way way over priced and never worth considering in a multiplayer game.

Of course he is! He grows like a sponge! Cover the world in sponges and you will rule th galaxy

Edit: DOn't forget to feed him
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Old June 16th, 2007, 04:11 AM
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> It's a strong unit yet way way over priced and never worth considering in a multiplayer game.

Of course he is! He grows like a sponge! Cover the world in sponges and you will rule th galaxy

Edit: DOn't forget to feed him
Even after being fully stuffed with corpses he has multiple weaknesses for costing 50 astral ! First only one can exist on the map so any opponent wanting to destroy all your hard work just has to summon one of them. Second this creature will go beserk and leave you... possibly return to attack you. For a few more astral gems I can summon a army of ether warriors and an ether lord commander which could slice and dice three eater of the deads in battle.
It's a strong unit, but if you check the multiplayer games... it's never casted.
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Old June 16th, 2007, 04:14 AM
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> First only one can exist on the map

Not after he has broken free.

Of course it is not casted! People like control over things
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Old June 16th, 2007, 04:18 AM
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Of course it is not casted! People like control over things
Well it's more with the cost of the spell... 50 astral gems is a very high price for a single unit which comes from a high research level.
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Its actually a combination of the high cost, rather low survivability (low defense+low protection) and the fact you lose control over it.
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>50 astral gems is a very high price for a single unit

Actually it's a low price for freeing the fettered one and unleash him upon the world. The fact that his physical powers are limited by time, space and the newly dead doesn't make the powers of his fetters less strong.
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A eater of the dead should spawn more eaters of the dead once it grows to a certain size. Attack of the blobs
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Agartha can get a 300+ hitpoint commander, by prophetizing a Marble Oracle which you must admit, is somewhat insane, considering thats more than most pretenders.

I'm hoping to figure out a working astral pretender build, so I can try a Juggernaut with the Golem Cult bonus.
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I had an eater of the dead show up on one of my chaoticised maps. I loved it. As Pangaea I would rush a couple of Pans over there to follow it around. Every time it cleared a province, my hidden pan would toss a couple of maenads and take ownership. Since the pans stayed hidden they were not in danger from the eater.
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Agartha can get a 300+ hitpoint commander, by prophetizing a Marble Oracle which you must admit, is somewhat insane, considering thats more than most pretenders
I have a 500+ hp prophet at the momement, I prophetized a tartarian! 50hp/turn regeneration...

Him and my destroyer of worlds pretender, only 200+ hps make a cool duo...
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