Patch 3.23

[Jarkko]

Originally Posted by lch

I don't know what a "reverse communion" is

One example of reverse communion I've seen used quite early in a game (needs Evocation 5 and Blood 2 IIRC). Totally destroyed my SC pretender and elites + prophet he had along.

You need access to cheap blood and astral mages. Take four S1 mages and a B1 mage, the B1 mage need to cast his spell after the astral mages (ie to be lowest in the selection screen).

Script the blood mage to Sabbath Master, Hell Power, Reinvigoration x 3. Script the astral mage to Communion Slave, Twist Fate, Astral Geysir x 3.

You'll have each turn a chance a horror spawns. Actually, it seemed to be pretty guaranteed at least one spawned, as there were five hell-power buffed mages present. However, your mages only have 1st level horror mark, while there are *loads* of 2nd level horror marked opponents... And even if the horror would attack your mage, he has twist fate to negate the first attack. All the while Reinvigoration keeps your fatigue at zero for all your mages.

My Pretender survived that battle. But he didn't live long, as he had about umpteenth level horror mark on him (not only from the geysir, but also from the horros attacking him many times ), and the doom horror was lurking behind the corner... It was evil.

[Gregstrom]

Matrix does the same communion effect as the spell, so there's no reason a reverse communion wouldn't work with it.

[archaeolept]

it's not controversial, there's just no reason to think the spell will stack w/ PotS, and reason to think that it wouldn't. As such, there is no reason to wait to prophetize some onmyoji; i'd either recruit a shugenja first turn, or just do the usual and prophetize the starting ninja.

[Zeldor]

Smiting assassins are great.

[Fate]

Verified. My prophet/onmyo-ji cast power of the spheres, then refused to cast the teach sign.

[Endoperez]

Ouch, nasty trick.

Reverse communion is pretty easy to use. The only thing you have to remember is to keep the master from casting spells before slaves. The master can be last in order, or can retreat, or you can give him a bow and script him for Fire after he's buffed the slaves.
I used it to make a host of my C'tis Shamans receive Power of the Spheres, and I also cast Light of the Northern Star. The Soul Slays didn't do as much as I had hoped, but they were just my researchers.

[Sombre]

Hence the great utility of Slann communion masters who can go dormant in battle, a state in which they can no longer cast spells.

[eastsnow]

Now we can't cast the spell "Connect Yama-no-Kami" in moutain terrain.A bug?

[archaeolept]

eastsnow, are you sure that it is mountain terrain and not "border mountains", which have the mountain graphic but really function more like plains?

[eastsnow]

Archaeolept,you are right.But in this random map all the mountains are border mountains,