Lords of Civilization

MaxWilson · #1 May 30th, 2008, 10:16 PM

The healer seems fine to me, but as I said, Hinnom is a bit "meh" in my eyes. Let's wait and see whether it's a problem in MP.

-Max

Lazy_Perfectionist · #2 May 30th, 2008, 10:34 PM

Late Age, dash of Middle Age.
Has anyone tried/formed an opinion on Gath's "Memories of Stone", and "Strange Fire".

Memories of Stone is a really beefed up version of reanimate dead, but isn't super combatant or anything... 17 hitpoint, 22 strength, 25 protection, 15 resist skeletons, 5+ per 10 gems. Banishment may prove difficult, but

Strange Fire seems incredibly difficult to cast with your nation's mages. I'm not sure why its there.

MaxWilson · #3 June 1st, 2008, 03:00 PM

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Lazy_Perfectionist said:
Strange Fire seems incredibly difficult to cast with your nation's mages. I'm not sure why its there.

Ashdod has it too. While the occasional Talmai Elder will be S3F1 and able to cast it naked, it's still kind of an odd spell, like the Wolf Pack spell for Helheim that takes Nature mages to cast (Helheim has no access to nature). It's probably thematic flavoring.

-Max

Lingchih · #4 May 31st, 2008, 01:39 AM

Oh my god. The Rephaite and Nephilim eat everyone in a province. I mean it's bad. Might not be so bad in your cap, with a high Growth, but I'm sieging an enemy castle right now with several of them (one Nephilim hero and several Rephaite commanders), and they are eating 500 people a turn. The province will be empty by the time I get the walls down. And my sieging troops keep starving, cause the Giants are eating all the farmers.

I think there is a big challenge to playing this nation in MP. It will take some good planning and commander deployment, to avoid eating all your peoples. And this in not a death nation... they need people in the provinces.

Playing EA Hinnom, btw, in case you had not guessed. I have found that if you send enough healers into the province you are sieging, they can heal most of the troops of their starving afflictions, and beef up supplies too. Still, tough going.

MaxWilson · #5 May 31st, 2008, 02:42 AM

Heh heh heh. 500 people a turn? That's very thematic.

Aezeal · #6 May 31st, 2008, 08:12 PM

it's almost the strongest healer in teh game.. for a nation with giants...