VOTD-Still like it

[Kuritza]

Tifone said:
You are becoming quite belligerant, mmh? Where did you find those words in my post? XD

Tifone said:IMHO? Because this is a game of tactics and counters, sometimes some tactic is somewhat unbalanced, sometimes the counter, if your enemies does a good use of those, you are outplayed, period.

To do a good use of VotD, one should simply cast it. You have no options to defend, you just wait till your SC fails his roll. Maybe you get lucky and resist 49 times as Konming suggested, but most likely, you wont. Thus, you will be outplayed - according to you. Hence my words.

And, Konming, 150 astral pearls and 50 mage turns is theorycraft. In reality, things happen differently. In my case it was God with MR 26 (you forgot to count magic scale +1 that most players take) who was killed by second casting of VotD. Ermor player later claimed it was the first spell that killed my God, but I think he's wrong. So its 6 pearls and two mage turns.

So yes, I do object when people say that fire-and-forget spell is 'just fine'. Mindless units that dont die because they didnt have a commander in the first place is a bad thing.