MP: Game,HoC - House of Chains. Corinthian wins!

[Executor]

The Dwarven Kingdom is in business of selling nature gems, we will accept any other gem type in exchange, except stinking death gems of course.

[Corinthian]

Lo and behold! On the 25'th month of our lords holy ascension quest, Ermor has finally gotten its first Good Random Event! If I had known this would have happened then I would have gone all the way down to misfortune 3 and spent the additional 80 points elsewhere.

In other news, two huge battles was won by the brave zombies fighting for Ermor. The enemy, Yheetie monstrosities with company were defeated with only some 250 friendly casualties. Thats almost nothing!

One of the greatest artists in Ermor (Who did not see the battle) have already created an epic painting to immortalize the battle between brown clad heroes and evil!

[Amhazair]

Originally Posted by Corinthian

A fanciful picture

Somehow, this doesn't look quite right to me.

That turn would also have gone better if I had gotten home in time to rectify a couple of mistakes I had realised about while at work. At least the battle at my capital would have been a more or less easy win then.

Sorry about the stale, New-year activities turned out a bit more... extensive than I had expected. Now to go see how much damage it caused.

[Corinthian]

Hmm. That was a lot more ogres hiding out in that hole than what I thought it would be. It is a good thing that I am so reckless and attacked blind. If I had sent a scout in to that fort and seen that I might have hesitated to attack.

I also did not consider the spell "Hell Power". That could have killed me if I had managed to charm the caster and he had survived the horrors. It could have ended with both of us routing, leaving an empty castle, haha. Fortunately it is hard to make skeletons rout and the horrors cant heal themselves by eating lifeless people.

Good Game Amhazair. Oh and were did your pretender disappear to? I never saw him die anywhere and I was sure he was in your capitol.

[Corinthian]

Hmm. 3 people missing still with 40min left on the timer. Wraith Lord If you are reading this then an extension would be most prudent.

[Amhazair]

Yeah, well played to you too. The entire war was very well executed on your part. Gonna have to keep an eye on you in the future I think.

My pretender got killed by your Strands of Arcane Power unfortunately. Too bad, with his reasearch I would have had access to Harm otherwise. Now, I never really got to use that spell in battle before, but I'm thinking that harm cast by 7B casters can cause some serious pain. Together with the 3 Slaughtermasters your strands feebleminded that was a serious weakening of my Sabbath. Wouldn't have been enough to win, mind you, but would have caused some more damage.

In other news, that's twice now out of the five games I played after returning from burn-out-sabatical that I get eliminated early. That never happened to me before and I have to say I do NOT like the experience. Will need to step up my game.

[Corinthian]

Originally Posted by Amhazair

Yeah, well played to you too. The entire war was very well executed on your part. Gonna have to keep an eye on you in the future I think.

My pretender got killed by your Strands of Arcane Power unfortunately. Too bad, with his reasearch I would have had access to Harm otherwise. Now, I never really got to use that spell in battle before, but I'm thinking that harm cast by 7B casters can cause some serious pain. Together with the 3 Slaughtermasters your strands feebleminded that was a serious weakening of my Sabbath. Wouldn't have been enough to win, mind you, but would have caused some more damage.

Huh? Strands killed your pretender and feebleminded the blood mages? But strands is supposed to magic duel astral mages and mindburn other mages? Does it actually midburn astral mages if they have other magic paths? And does it have chance to feeblemind normal mages or is it just a quality of midburn that it cause feblemindedness to the survivors? Even so, if the wiki is correct then your pretender would have had to fail two MR checks in a row and suffered enough damage from mindburn to die. The chance of that happening to one mage among 20 is pretty decent. But it seem a pretty negligible chance vs an MR 16 pretender. Maybe it gets one check to fail twice for every path the mage got?

I have never seen anyone cast strands in MP before actually. I mainly cast it so that it would sitesearch for me, but I might have accidentally something really good!

As for harm, I intentionally mixed my undead and human forces so that spells that kills undead would hit the humans and things that only affect the living, like Harm, would hit the undead. It might have killed my mercs real good though.

[Executor]

Originally Posted by Corinthian

It might have killed my mercs real good though.

His mercs he says, pah!

[Amhazair]

Hmm... Have to say that I didn't doublecheck the Wiki, and most certainly don't know the mechanics by heart. I assumed the Strands killed him, as the description mentions a magical duel, so I thought the loser died as per the spell Magic Duel. Wiki does indeed say otherwise.

What I can say for sure is that I got the message that "1 target died and 5 were affected", and my pretender was gone afterwards. (I was confused for a while myself, wondering where he'd gone, until I found that message again.)

As for the feebleminds, they're probably caused by the mind burn damage as normal battle afflictions. After the above message where there were 5 affected targets for example, I went through my mages and 2 were feebleminded, while no one else was affected. (that turn.)

[starcryst]

I'm considering selling The Chalice. PM me with offers if you are interested. Looking for gems, not cash.