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[Il Palazzo]

Has anyone of the Alliance made some testing what land-based indie troops are best at killing giants? Barbarians with their 21 damage? Cavalry with the lance bonus? Ichtyds with their nets? None whatsoever?

[BFEL]

Has anyone of the Alliance made some testing what land-based indie troops are best at killing giants? Barbarians with their 21 damage? Cavalry with the lance bonus? Ichtyds with their nets? None whatsoever?

Just use Hoburgs, I'm SURE it'll work out

[IWishIWereSarah]

(Giant nation here)
It kind of depends a bit.
I know I got wrecked by shark tribe tritons in my test game.
They combine high number of attacks (3 tritons * 3 attacks), with berserk to upgrade their damage and prevent them from routing, with a little extra poison.
On lands, I don't know. Mass Divine-name Air-breathing shark tribe tritons ?

[BFEL]

Mass Divine-name Air-breathing shark tribe tritons ?

At that point you may as well just find a way to summon up giants of your own. Probably cheaper.

Also Enigmatic how the crap did you expand that far that fast? I mean jeez, I'm feeling kinda inadequate, here I am with my supergiants and you're out-expanding me

[IWishIWereSarah]

Giants are good, but they cost money.
Part of his expansion didn't cost him money directly

[BFEL]

?

[IWishIWereSarah]

His pretender. I'm talking about his pretender. Aren't you his neighbor ?
Haven't you realized that he had the double of your gold income and will soon get more gems and forts and mages too ?

(not antagonizing at all :-° )

[E. Albright]

Ichtyds with their nets?

#sizeresist (3+4 get a save, 5+6 ignore), so definitely not this,

[IWishIWereSarah]

Most giants don't have helmets. So units who have size + weapon-size at 6 or over can kill them quickly with a headshot (10% of the time as long as you can reach it).
Basically, human with spears ?

[E. Albright]

On the flip side, native prot of pureblood Fomorians is 6, and the berserkers will be adding 3-5 to that, and shield-head-hits still apply shield prot. Also, if you want to cause limb loss you really should be using slashing weapons, so for size 2 units that pretty much limits you to halberds, glaives (both only 50% chance to slash), naginatas, and bardiches.

[IWishIWereSarah]

(New turn message) High throne = "Worst Throne", now ?
Please, I have the throne of pestilence. I get spreading death scales near my capital. I don't have to worry about the end of the game, because if I survive 3 years, my capital population will be halved.

[E. Albright]

...in 4.10, one of the nations had their capital next to the Throne of Winter. They were not a cold-loving nation. There are worse things that can happen to you than being close to even Pestilence...

[Il Palazzo]

Ichtyds with their nets?

#sizeresist (3+4 get a save, 5+6 ignore), so definitely not this,

Grasping for straws here.
Continuing this train of thought, what's better to take down the giants, 3x15 slash damage per square, or 1x30 + 1x15?

[IWishIWereSarah]

Depends on the giants :
Agaisnt high protection, you want 1*30, against high def, you want 2*15. Me thinks.

[Frumple]

... I'd probably wager on whichever combination is most likely to manage a second swing