"MoD+Retreat" defeated w/o killing caster

[JimMorrison]

In the other thread there have to be at least 3 seperate places where K directly stated "the easiest way to counter MoD+retreat is just to kill the caster".

Phrasing varied, of course, but I am only referring to places where the statement was that it was not hard to do if you are a "skilled" player.

But it doesn't matter, as I've been asked to just let the whole thing die, and I agree that since we have an official stance on the subject, and agreement is nearly unanimous that exploiting a bug is unacceptable, then I don't care about the rest, people make wild claims every day.

[chrispedersen]

Jim,
I suck at things.. but if you get a moment, could you test an army with a bunch of phantasm poppers?

these would be something like shambler units, with chi shoes, and void eyes... perhps 5-6 in an army. Void Eyes are supposed to destroy phantasms in range, and blinking around the battlefied.perhaps will get you enough in range.

By the way - I tried a couple of games where wrathful skies cast on the same side as MoD - killed all the phantasms themselves...

[JimMorrison]

Chi shoes? The ones that give Kick? The Sandals of the Crane blink but they're an Artifact. I'd assume you just meant Winged Shoes, I wonder how effective that would be.

I wonder if a high movement cavalry unit with Stymphalian Wings would do better, getting more hops/turn so you need less of them?

I don't know though, it seems like a bit of a stretch. I mean, talking about not only a sizable investment of gems into a totally nonstandard tactic that you'd never use for anything but warding off MoD, but these guys actually have no other use at all.

[chrispedersen]

well, you could you make them mages, and just cast blink.

[Zeldor]

Just looks at progress page.

Enchantment now finish when caster leaves battlefield.

[Micah]

Aw, sadness, I liked that trick. Well, outside of MoD...

[llamabeast]

Well thank goodness for that.

[Foodstamp]

Micah said:
Aw, sadness, I liked that trick. Well, outside of MoD...

It's just a minor step towards making the game more conventional. There is still plenty of quirks to make the game stand apart from other strategy games... for now .