Could u stop Gorgon?

[TirAsleen]

well, thats rather cool and there are ways to cure him. at leat priestess works on him unlike on some undead pretenders like PoD, the aegis shield still works even if he is blind too

[mivayan]

curse + armies is a lot more likely to cause permanent afflictions on a cyclops too.

[FrankTrollman]

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[TirAsleen]

well against the armies there is that aegis shield,high hp are still high hp, and except for the cripple afflication that reduce AP a lot its not that bad to have afflicitons especially if you can heal them. with some items and healing units affliction do not mean so much. better have all item slots availible and good hp for SC. gorgon for example can die in 1-2 hits if there is not especially high dominion. arther more a psychologic thing those afflication i used to often play with undead and their souless armies....they had afflictions too but hardly stopped them and if you do not have any good items and cyclops lost his only eye and still is alive you can move him back in a lab and let him cast some rituals and do some research. well, its not that i think cyclops is the best god there is, just i would prefere him over gorgon any day as any strong unit with a bit of good magic res can quickly kill her.

[quantum_mechani]

FrankTrollman said:
The Gorgorn is actually pretty easy to stop. In melee she doesn't actually kill skeletons faster than a couple of skele spammers can throw them up. Sure, their low MR makes them die each round when they attack - but the stream of skeletons moves in fast enough that she doesn't make any forward prgress. Occassionally one of them makes a lucky hit and the Gorgon gets a battle affliction. Eventually she runs or dies. She might not kill any real troops.

Seriously, enchantment 3 and some Bakemono Sorcerers or Grand Thaumaturges and the battles is a foregone conclusion.

More importantly, should the gorgon get a battle result of "Mute" or "Feebleminded" she is unlikely to survive the battle against any opponents. A gorgon is a serious roll of the dice t the start of the game that can easily end with a dead gorgon.

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So easy is it to stop or kill a gorgon in fact, that I regard her as a bad goddess for Pangaea. Pangaea has serious problems getting into secondary paths of magic, and a big Earth/Nature goddess doesn't help that at all.

-Frank

Versus a naked gorgon all that is a possibility, once they have equip and buffs (such as the OP references) skelly spamming will do nothing besides time out the battle if you have huge amounts.

[Xietor]

My gorgon never leaves my dominion, and she is pretty good in melee combat, with an aoe damage fire sword, lightning helm.

But the biggest drawback of the gorgon is low hps. But she can fly-and thus pick her fights. If I see a big army that looks to be made to kill my gorgon, expect it to meet another army. loaded with well equipped bane lords, war minotaurs, longbows,
and mechanical men.

And late game in my own dominion, you will face the gorgon in a haunted forest, and unless you have a lot astral gems, gift of health as well. Those dead troops turn into manikins that will aid my gorgon in melee.

Sure there are many good SCers, but how many come with built-in high protection, petrification, fear, flying, poison immunity? Best of all, she heals her own afflictions, unlike most other scers.(we have a "house" rule against using immortal gods, as that is considered super cheese).

By the time she appears after a brief nap,
i usually have 4 construction researched or am close.

With some nature artifacts, like eye shield, ring regeneration, snake bladder stick, silver hauberk(if have air gems) or black steel plate, she can easily take most indies.

Cyclops is one of my least favorite scers, as arrows tend to take out his only eye(:

[mivayan]

If the gorgon is alone in a province, a suicide squad of astral mages teleporting in scripted to cast horror mark x5, might eventually remove the gorgon permanently. Might need a lot of patience for it to work.

Strong fliers can hurt it before buffs are up.

[Wish]

screw suicide squad, have them all cast ritual of returning first.

[Xietor]

Unbuffed she has 26 armor, petrification, luck, regeneration.
She is not defenseless. And in a haunted forest, each dead flier is another target for the remaining flyers to have to kill. And typically the AI targets units before commanders.

Horror mark could be interesting. Would a gorgon lose to a horror? If I thought there was a strong risk I may have to give her some bodyguards, but, of course, that would limit her mobility unless i found some flying bodyguards.

[Teraswaerto]

Bodyguards don't really help against a Horror, as it will always attack the Horror marked pretender first, and usually kill it with the first attack.

It's possible that the gorgon could win with the right items, and scripting Petrify as the first spell should always work though.