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[Cruxador]

With low protection they tend to lose limbs fast, but whatever, right?

If you have any E access and you've got these guys, you should probably be rushing Alteration for iron warriors/marble warriors/army of foo and give them good protection on top of their other benefits as soon as reasonably possible. Even if you don't, if you have other reasons to go into Alteration it might be worth taking some E on your pretender so you can throw that stuff up on major armies later, especially if you have sacred mages or troops that would like a Ex bless anyway.

[Gigalith]

Anyone want to sub for a (probably doomed) Atlantis in Bay12 Game 25? I'm having to leave due to stress (and, like I said, it's probably doomed) but if anyone wants a shot at it I can sent my latest .trn as a quick preview.

[ThtblovesDF]

Game Name: Bay12GamesRound425
Map: Dawn of Bridges v3
Thread: Bay425

Atlantis is "sorta" ok, with 1 fort lost (out of 4) and the game is in the intresting point where you might not be able to win, but you can certainly influence who will win.

[ThtblovesDF]

Double post, but hey like a week passed.

I did some testing with "Wind of Death" and dear god is it effective - a single caster with 10-ish bodyguards (That start away from the caster to draw arrows) casting it once, then waiting 4 turns before retreating.

- all humans died (max age 50, starting around 20-30 usually)
- Even the pale ones (max age 400 start 150) died, but it was very strange - the all aged 5 years/turn, about 80 total on average, but on the very last tick, when the battle ends - all affected just died. With well up to 180 years left before max age, all of them died in the same turn. That might be a bit of a bug in action there, then again "Death is the only cure" - no wonder it was so effective at stoping the Boar-invasion back then.

Before and After Screenshot

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With actual mag-pen boosters 1 mage vs 450 - 350 dead

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Just for funnyzs I died another test, 2x Earthquake and 1x Rain of Stone and 3 extra casters (plus a small army) - killed about 272 of 484.

Well thankfully it is a high level research goal.

[Kagus]

I need to cast Sea Dogs, GoR one of them, and name it Scuba Duu.

...yes, I have the best tactics.

[AlStar]

I need to cast Sea Dogs, GoR one of them, and name it Scuba Duu.

...yes, I have the best tactics.

I occasionally have similar thoughts about GoR'ing a deer or something equally silly and making it my prophet... just 'cause.

[Frumple]

Think... what, tiniest scorpions are the smallest thing you can get outside battle? That'd be the target. Your entire religion hanging off the words of a bug smaller than your hand.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Think... what, tiniest scorpions are the smallest thing you can get outside battle? That'd be the target. Your entire religion hanging off the words of a bug smaller than your hand.

You can polymorph a mage into a dragonfly.

[Frumple]

That'd work, sure. Just be a bit better if it was something that started tiny. Mage-prophet becoming a dragonfly isn't quite the same as a dragonfly suddenly flapping out of a swamp buzzing about the word of the true god

[E. Albright]

That might be a bit of a bug in action there, then again "Death is the only cure" - no wonder it was so effective at stoping the Boar-invasion back then.

Decay doesn't stop just because the battle stops. It's much the same as how the battle ending can still mean death from poison, bleeding, or burning.

[Jilladilla]

That might be a bit of a bug in action there, then again "Death is the only cure" - no wonder it was so effective at stoping the Boar-invasion back then.

Decay doesn't stop just because the battle stops. It's much the same as how the battle ending can still mean death from poison, bleeding, or burning.

I think he was talking about how the Pale Ones just suddenly keeled over despite having well over a hundred years until old age?
But yeah, Wind of Death can be scarily effective (if slow acting), if you fear for it, turn 1 Antimagic helps a ton (As it is a MR resists easily spell)
(The one time I really used it was against one of Thtbloves swarms of B9D9N9 blessed Great Boars... It was beautiful.)

[Kagus]

Okay, so, we've got the Markata prophet Rhesus Christ, the deer prophet Deer Lord, the sea dog Scuba Duu, just need a good name for the scorpion...

Also, now I need to make a Nyorai pretender named "I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha!". Fuck all of you.

[Frumple]

"NOD the Best" sounds like a good one for the scorpion, if you're going for that sort of theme.

[Shadowlord]

I have pretenders named:
The Wicked Witch of the West (EA Xibalba)
The Ghost of Mr. Burns (EA Xibalba)
The Other Drowned God (EA R'lyeh)
Namwons Eht Ytsorf (MA Caelum - that's Frosty The Snowman, backwards)
Poseidonteven (MA Oceania)
Free Drinks (LA Ulm, a blood fountain)

_{The one I used in the Bay12 EA game where I played EA Xibalba was named "Tora no Kagitsume", which means Tiger's Claw (or claws), and is a disguised reference to the TCS Tiger's Claw in Wing Commander}

[Gigalith]

In the B12 game before the current ones, I went through a number of names for my Demon Macaw (LA Xibalba), including Akumacaw, Macawbre, and Kazooie, before settling on Polly. Polly wants YOUR BLOOD!