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[Gregstrom]

Try the Dom3 database - it's in the sig on any of Edi's posts. That has full Seraph stats.

And as Zeldor says, it's vulnerable to the standard range of SC kill spells. More so than Tartarians in many cases
(I don't know where you got this idea that lots of my SCs and mages survived. Not the combat replays, that's for sure).

I lost the island mainly due to my quaint belief that stacking multiple Air Domes was too close to an exploit for my taste. It did afford me some satisfaction that even after sucking down ~200 gems worth of attack spells (650 casualties from Flames From the Sky castings alone!), I fought off twice my my numbers in Machakan troops.

I only took the Isle in the first place because I was in a trailing third position overall and didn't see any great chance of capturing it if another player took it. I'm quite happy to have got to more or less second place in the graphs after that.


I think that the game would have been a bit more interesting with a 2 VP win condition. I'd likely have been pushed off the Isle 12 turns ago, and wouldn't now be in a position where there's likely to be ~40 turns of game to go before a VP win can be completed.

[moderation]

Does anyone know of someone honest who can act as a temporary sub for me for 1-2 weeks? I would really appreciate this. Thanks in advance.

[Zeldor]

Gregstorm:

But you didn't even put 1 of a kind.

Fires from the Sky killed a bit less, I think. They do 15AN damage and I don't think it sums up from several castings. But yeah, it should have killed like 60-80% of your mages, but no harm to angels, tartarians, etc. And you still have a lot of mages that you can teleport

And no, Tartarians are much much easier to kill than Seraph [Seraphs biggest vulnerability is Magic Duel though].

[Gregstrom]

I didn't have enough domes, true.

Damage from Flames From the Sky does stack, like any artillery spell damage. And 4 getting through is more like a 90% kill rate, on average. I'm a little annoyed that the Astral dome stopped only one of the 20+ spells that came in, to be honest. Not really a 50% stop rate.

Tarts aren't too much easier to kill than Seraphs, I think. There are nice anti-undead spells for dealing with them, but their extra hp over Seraphs makes a difference against the regular stuff. Save or die spells wouldn't be an effective option against the ones Machaka have been fielding, for example.

[Zeldor]

But you didn't have the astral dome turn before, so you cast it. And it got into randomiser and I guess it was cast as one of the last spells.

And seraphs is strong because of self-buffs, awe, flying and couple other thins. HP is not so really important factor for SC as long it is not very low of course.

[Gregstrom]

I can't entirely agree over HP. Any SC worth the name has enough MR to avoid save or die spells. Irresistible damage is one of the more reliable ways to kill them, and Tarts have an advantage there in that they can take more than 2 hits from Life for a Life, and some can stand up to a Gifts from Heaven.

[Zeldor]

There is never enough MR to save from save or die spells. Never. Lost 29MR Water Queen recently to disintegrate that had like 0,0001% chance of getting through.

[Bananadine]

I've been fighting since crazy old R'lyeh first attacked me I don't know how long ago, so I'm still entertained, no matter how pointless it may be for the one monkey on the one giant's shoulder to knock the other monkey off the other giant's shoulder, or how futile it may be for Abysians to try to wage war underwater. Plus interesting stuff is happening at the portal near me.

[DonCorazon]

I'd like to retire or go AI, probably wouldn't even have much impact if I did.

[otthegreat]

Me too. Since DonC is my teammate I'd be in bad shape if he goes AI. I've thrown all I have against Pythium but its not enough. I've learned a lot and had fun but I'm ready to move on, especially since it looks like the game could continue for a while.