What Does Death Curse Do?

[OmikronWarrior]

Omnirizon said:
well, for a cheap, fragile, sacred unit this might be the perfect bless.

flagellant maybe.

You know, there would actually be some nice synergy with flaggelants. The blood bless also adds strength, which with their 2 attacks per round is a very nice addition. I checked LA Marignon's pretender chasis, and the Moloch gets you both fire and blood (F1B2) as a base. The final package might be enough to stop anybody with a SC pretender cold. Not saying its the most efficient way to play Mary, just a thought.

[Sombre]

The strength is ok for flaggies (though not worth the points imo) but death curse is useless for every sacred in basegame. Seriously. Even flaggies are too few in number and cost too much for it to be worth it.

With Ulm Reborn you can get loads of freespawn penitent (which are flaggies without afflictions, basically) and even there death curse does virtually nothing. I mean if their units are slaughtering yours they get cursed, but being cursed doesn't mean a whole lot for regular troops and it is pretty much inevitable for SCs and thugs anyway. The horror marking is very weak but might envetually do something I guess.

Death curse is like a medallion of vengeance. For a strategy that relies on you /losing/, it doesn't do nearly enough to justify.

[Tyrant]

If undead sacreds are working these days it could be somewhat amusing for TC ancestor spirits.

[NTJedi]

Sombre said:
...being cursed doesn't mean a whole lot for regular troops and it is pretty much inevitable for SCs and thugs anyway.

Very true... and many battlefield spells make it possible to curse enemy units.

[Gregstrom]

I like Doom for that, and thought it should couple well with one of the spells that does a slow drip-feed of damage to everyone on the battlefield.