Corlindale and Sphener

[Skiamach]

Playing the Elohim, I was able to remain at peace indefinitely sacrificing Corlindale then resurrecting him with Sphener (though I suppose any unit with resurrect would do) and repeating. The peace from the sacrifice would always be longer than the 7 turns it took to resurrect Corlindale again. It won me the game (altar victory), but it seemed too powerful. It also made the Elohim world spell obsolete.

By the way, I think I could have won the wars, I mainly used this tactic to avoid Curse the Land. I thought curse the land was really nasty, but maybe it was because I didn't have the patience to let my largest cities starve for 15+ turns while I tried to appease the divinity.

 

[[to_xp]Gekko]

well this sounds like an exploit indeed

 

[zup]

Yay for uber synergies.

 

[Vehem]

well this sounds like an exploit indeed

I think it's more of an issue in the changes made to resurrect a few of the main mod versions ago - that's definitely an extreme example, but there are other equally cheeky things that can be done with that spell.

 

[orangelex44]

It works in the original FFH, too - I think I mentioned using the tactic somewhere in the strategy threads. Heck, I think I mentioned it in the FFH Manual thread, in my writeup for the Elohim....

It makes the Order Elohim much more appealing, doesn't it?

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Why does Sphenor have Life magic anyway? I know he's had it for a long time, but wouldn't it make a lot more sense to change this to Law?

 

[Pike the Hands]

An even more asinine exploit: give Corlindale Life 3 and Death 3, then lich him. This qualifies as a 'death', so you can build the Shrine of the Champion and have the lich resurrect Corlindale. Rinse and repeat until you have 4 hero liches and a vanilla Corlindale.

 

[[to_xp]Gekko]

Why does Sphenor have Life magic anyway? I know he's had it for a long time, but wouldn't it make a lot more sense to change this to Law?

I guess I agree with this one..

 

[MaxAstro]

An even more asinine exploit: give Corlindale Life 3 and Death 3, then lich him. This qualifies as a 'death', so you can build the Shrine of the Champion and have the lich resurrect Corlindale. Rinse and repeat until you have 4 hero liches and a vanilla Corlindale.

Good lord. I assume Govannon can do the same thing? That's ridiculous...

 

[Vehem]

Good lord. I assume Govannon can do the same thing? That's ridiculous...

Aye - I'm waiting to see what Kael has in the 034 changelog, but will be changing Life3 if he hasn't already.