Terrorism in Dominions 3

[LDiCesare]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

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Also there is Scouts wearing the Amulet of Explosion (or whatever its called). Unfortunately it doesnt do as much as it could. But that seems pretty close to a terrorist bomber as I can think of.

Phoenix Pyre is probably quite similar, except it can burst several times... I don't know how it combines with immortal...
(I just played with that in a SP game - I was trying to finish a bit faster so I teleported/cloud trapezed 24 mages into a province, without bothering to script them. They had a few bottles of living water and I thought they would do well enough against some PD. Several of them cast Phoenix Pyre. A stray arrow killed one of them. He burst, killing another one, and causing a chain reaction. One of the starets reappeared near the back of the enemies, where he was killed and burst again. Overall, I lots 17 out of 24 mages because they were too near one another and Phoenix Pyre can have a big area of effect.)

[rdonj]

Phoenix Pyre and immortal work together properly. It's only second shapes and immortal that don't interact with each other iirc. Which is unfortunate for Nehekara b/c it means you're better off letting your kings die and become immortal before adding the phoenix pyre buff.

I wonder how the vengeance amulet works with phoenix pyre.

[K]

Multiplay is not so much about killing an opponents units, but breaking their will to fight so they go AI and so be become about three times as weak. In essence, multiplayer Dominions is an exercise in applied terrorism.

Doesn't Volcanic Eruptions destroy temples? Not sure since I haven't played in a while.

[Loren]

Originally Posted by LDiCesare

Phoenix Pyre is probably quite similar, except it can burst several times... I don't know how it combines with immortal...
(I just played with that in a SP game - I was trying to finish a bit faster so I teleported/cloud trapezed 24 mages into a province, without bothering to script them. They had a few bottles of living water and I thought they would do well enough against some PD. Several of them cast Phoenix Pyre. A stray arrow killed one of them. He burst, killing another one, and causing a chain reaction. One of the starets reappeared near the back of the enemies, where he was killed and burst again. Overall, I lots 17 out of 24 mages because they were too near one another and Phoenix Pyre can have a big area of effect.)

Yeah, I lost a whole bunch of casters in a similar fashion. I had scripted some buffs but then left it open as previous attempts had gone astray due to specifying the wrong spell for the range and the AI overriding. Most of them cast Phoenix Pyre after finishing the scripted buffs, this put them very near 100 fatigue. One died. IIRC I got back 1 of about 40.