Auric Ascended

[Seventh Child]

So I was messing around with the Illians last night/this morning. Trying to learn to use them well, since I like them despite their lack of power.

I was lucky enough to have Letum Frigus not too far from me, all I had to do was tear it out of Charadon's hands. Samhain+Stasis fixed that problem, and knocked out another civilization before I ever met them. It was a pretty easy game after that, though a little long. Balseraphs DoWed me, so I stomped them into oblivion.

Near the end of the game it was just myself, the Amurites (How fitting) and the Clan. Neither were of any threat, so I just went stomping around on their faces every so often for gold and slaves. I'd pretty much won by this point but I wanted to Ascend Auric and see what it was like.

I survived a bugged Blight (I had my stack of death roaming around which easily defended my cities until their health came back) and after much patience, finally completed the Ascension ritual. I had a bit of fun killing Barbarians and Acheron, then decided I'd squash the Clan on my way towards the Illian's most hated enemy. It was pretty late at night so I was basically just right-clicking wherever enemies were and casting his super-powered Snowfall.

The Clan were down to one city when it happened. I right clicked with Auric and...he died. To a single goblin archer. I just kind of blinked in disbelief then moused over the goblin archer to see why he'd won.

+1000% vs Avatar. Well that's nice. He also refused to budge to the rest of my stack despite not actually being all that powerful. He also didn't take damage from Snowfall. About then I just quit. I was a little disappointed with how quickly he died considering how much time it takes to get him.

I'm not sure what promotion it was, anybody know how this Goblin Archer got it and what it was?

 

[Senethro]

Haha, you got God Slay'd. Its a backup plan of all the gods to get rid of invading deities cheating on the Compact. Kylorin will have appeared to your biggest opponent and handed them the God Slayer sword when Auric ascends.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Yes, the Godslayer not only provides a 1000% bonus vs Avatars, Magic Immunity, and +3 strength, but Auric Ascended's <PythonPostCombatWon>postCombatAuricAscendedWon(pCaster,pOpponent) function means that even if Auric manages to kill the wielder of the Godslayer that the god dies too.

def postCombatAuricAscendedWon(pCaster, pOpponent):
	if pOpponent.isHasPromotion(gc.getInfoTypeForString('PROMOTION_GODSLAYER')):
		iPlayer = pCaster.getOwner()
		pPlayer = gc.getPlayer(iPlayer)
		for iTrait in range(gc.getNumTraitInfos()):
			if pPlayer.hasTrait(iTrait):
				pPlayer.setHasTrait(iTrait, False)
		pCaster.kill(True, pOpponent.getOwner())
		pOppPlayer = gc.getPlayer(pOpponent.getOwner())
		if pOppPlayer.isHuman():
			t = "TROPHY_FEAT_GODSLAYER"
			if not CyGame().isHasTrophy(t):
				CyGame().changeTrophyValue(t, 1)

The Ascension ritual triggers an event to give one of your rivals the Godslayer at the same time that Auric Ascended enters the world.

		if iProjectType == gc.getInfoTypeForString('PROJECT_ASCENSION'):
			pPlayer.initUnit(gc.getInfoTypeForString('UNIT_AURIC_ASCENDED'), pCity.getX(), pCity.getY(), UnitAITypes.NO_UNITAI, DirectionTypes.DIRECTION_SOUTH)
			if pPlayer.isHuman():
				t = "TROPHY_FEAT_ASCENSION"
				if not CyGame().isHasTrophy(t):
					CyGame().changeTrophyValue(t, 1)
			if not CyGame().getWBMapScript():
				iBestPlayer = -1
				iBestValue = 0
				for iLoopPlayer in range(gc.getMAX_PLAYERS()):
					pLoopPlayer = gc.getPlayer(iLoopPlayer)
					if pLoopPlayer.isAlive():
						if not pLoopPlayer.isBarbarian():
							if pLoopPlayer.getTeam() != pPlayer.getTeam():
								iValue = CyGame().getSorenRandNum(500, "Ascension")
								if pLoopPlayer.isHuman():
									iValue += 2000
								iValue += (20 - CyGame().getPlayerRank(iLoopPlayer)) * 50
								if iValue > iBestValue:
									iBestValue = iValue
									iBestPlayer = iLoopPlayer
				if iBestPlayer != -1:
					pBestPlayer = gc.getPlayer(iBestPlayer)
					pBestCity = pBestPlayer.getCapitalCity()
					if pBestPlayer.isHuman():
						iEvent = CvUtil.findInfoTypeNum(gc.getEventTriggerInfo, gc.getNumEventTriggerInfos(),'EVENTTRIGGER_GODSLAYER')
						triggerData = gc.getPlayer(iBestPlayer).initTriggeredData(iEvent, true, -1, pBestCity.getX(), pBestCity.getY(), iBestPlayer, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1)
					else:
						pBestPlayer.initUnit(gc.getInfoTypeForString('EQUIPMENT_GODSLAYER'), pBestCity.getX(), pBestCity.getY(), UnitAITypes.NO_UNITAI, DirectionTypes.DIRECTION_SOUTH)

 

[Seventh Child]

Aw man, it's like Age of Ice all over again haha. Thanks for the info guys.

 

[apenpaap]

Wow, I'll have to look out for that, as I'm trying to ascend Auric in my current game.

 

[Onionsoilder]

Just send if hordes of normal units, kill the one wielding Godslayer, then give Godslayer to Auric =P

 

[Rasta69]

xD the look on your face would have been hilarious. Probably akin to mine when I unleashed drifa to chew on my enemies (first time playing illians). Unfortunatly it was the grigori. How was i supposed to know bout the sharra farr dragon slayers. Flew her right over a mountain singing a little song, only to have her die to the first unit she attacked....

 

[Worm4life]

Against human opponents, I'd be way too paranoid to ever send Auric into combat. Far too easy for them to form an alliance and maneuver the godslayer into position. I'd probably just have to blitz around enemy territory casting snowfall around cities and starving them to death.

 

[ZeroRange]

I Moved Auric up to a mountain top in enemy territory and took a city nearby so he would have hordes of units to kill with his blizzard I thought the god slayer blade would wonder near but it hasn't after like 500 turns (I'm playing the most turns possible) At least I'm bleeding the enemy dry of units. I suppose Auric belongs on a mountain he's a god.

On a side note I got peace with some of my enemies with a random event.

 

[readercolin]

You can get peace with your enemies through a random event or through hitting the 7 pines (or the elohim's hero casting peace). If you go to war after that, it works just like normal, except of course that you have a - diplomacy modifier for declaring war the first time. Unless you get peace through one of these methods though, it is impossible to declare peace as all your opponents will be "to furious to talk". Note - I'm not sure how vassals fit into this equation.

-Colin

 

[TC01]

Vassals and permanent allies don't declare war on you.

So in my Auric game I summoned Basium and vassalized the Ljosalfar, so I had a pretty large empire with multiple allies to defend myself from everyone. I could have permanent-allied another civ if I had thought to do so but never got around to doing it before I used the Draw.

 

[Onionsoilder]

Against human opponents, I'd be way too paranoid to ever send Auric into combat. Far too easy for them to form an alliance and maneuver the godslayer into position. I'd probably just have to blitz around enemy territory casting snowfall around cities and starving them to death.

If human players let you summon Auric, you're either powerful enough to squash them anyway or they're completely clueless. That, or they WANT to see him ascend.