Wishlist LA Ulm - Undead Commander

Jazzepi · #1 September 26th, 2008, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Endoperez

LA Ulm starts with Death income. If you take pretender with Death, the earliest cheap undead commander is Ench 2, Mound King.

The earliest available commander, of course, would be the Vampire Count. A bit expensive for moving the undead around, but he can also be used as a thug, especially for defense when the fights mostly take place within flying distance from the capital.

Boo-hiss. I understand he's around, but you only get death off of fortune tellers 1/4 of the time and I'm not sure that's the mage you want to be recruiting from your cap for the first 6-7 turns of the game just so that you can get a single death random.

Jazzepi

Edi · #2 September 26th, 2008, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Jazzepi

Quote:

Originally Posted by Endoperez

LA Ulm starts with Death income. If you take pretender with Death, the earliest cheap undead commander is Ench 2, Mound King.

The earliest available commander, of course, would be the Vampire Count. A bit expensive for moving the undead around, but he can also be used as a thug, especially for defense when the fights mostly take place within flying distance from the capital.

Boo-hiss. I understand he's around, but you only get death off of fortune tellers 1/4 of the time and I'm not sure that's the mage you want to be recruiting from your cap for the first 6-7 turns of the game just so that you can get a single death random.

Jazzepi

Fortune tellers are precisely what you want to recruit, as the bonus is additive, i.e. two fortune tellers have 2x the chance of preventing a bad event of just one fortune teller. Once the sum of fortune tellinggoes past 100, no bad events can occur.

Black priests can be recruited later when you have enough fortune tellers.

Xietor · #3 September 26th, 2008, 08:36 AM

I raised this issue with ko when i took a look at LA Ulm as one of the unpicked races in Kingmaker.

Though my memory may be off, I believe he said it was not an intentional thing, that the Bane of Heresy guys were added sort of near the end. But I do not recall him saying he was going to fix it either.

OmikronWarrior · #4 September 29th, 2008, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Edi

Fortune tellers are precisely what you want to recruit, as the bonus is additive, i.e. two fortune tellers have 2x the chance of preventing a bad event of just one fortune teller. Once the sum of fortune tellinggoes past 100, no bad events can occur.

Black priests can be recruited later when you have enough fortune tellers.

Are you sure about this? I thought that multiple fortune tellers only added multiple checks, not adding their bonuses together for one big check: i.e. two fortune tellers with 5% have a 9.75% (1-.95^2) of stopping the bad event, not 10%.