Beware of Ashdod

[RonD]

I'd say that the one thing most likely to increase the power of an overpowered nation is "no diplomacy".


Meanwhile, as someone playing against Ashdod currently, I'm all ears for ideas. Has any tried massing banefire archers? Or does their long life span save them from decay?

[WraithLord]

Charm, Enslave mind and/or the likewise blood spell?

Frozen heart spam?

Avoid confrontation and use sneak tactics and spells to ruin his economy?

Find friends?

[MaxWilson]

Okay, I checked and F8W9B9 jags do take out E10N6 Ahimans on a gcost basis. I tried 4 Ahimans vs. 24 jags several times, and the jags won each time with something like 25% casualties. I'm not necessarily suggesting that this would be a good bless to take for Mictlan, but you'd probably get almost as good results out of a F9B8 Smoking Mirror bless and you'd have decent scales to boot. Point being that the Str component of a Blood bless is sometimes quite good even though everybody scoffs at the Death Curse effect.

-Max

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by RonD

I'd say that the one thing most likely to increase the power of an overpowered nation is "no diplomacy".


Meanwhile, as someone playing against Ashdod currently, I'm all ears for ideas. Has any tried massing banefire archers? Or does their long life span save them from decay?

What are you facing? Blessed troops or regular Bashanites/Amorites? Bashanites have slightly less attacking power than a square of human-sized troops, and are somewhat more expensive, so you may be able to just slug it out. If he's using blessed troops (i.e. it's a small map) you'll have to bring in mages. Stellar Cascades/Destruction/Iron Bane are the way to go, depending upon your magic paths. By the way, what nation are you playing?

Banefire archers will be marginally effective, as you guessed, because of the combination of long lifespans and good shield parry. Not that they might not be worth using anyway, if you don't have anything else you need death gems for more. (Because it's always worth having more banefire bows in play. )

-Max