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It won't get so much longer, they are easily boared....
Running into an interesting situation, and I'm not sure what to make of it.
I am playing as Ljosalfar, with the Svartalfar between me and the western edge of the map. Not too surprisingly, we are not getting along and have been warring.
Well, the Sheaim in the far east called Hyborem, and the Svartalfar called Basium -- and the Basium-Svartalfar alliance promptly declared war on both the Sheaim and on me.
Joining the Sheaim-Hyborem side is out of the question -- they are furious at me anyway. Given my druthers, I'd probably ally with the Svartalfar, or at least offer them aid in their fight. But I am at war with them, and, in truth must either damage them promptly (at the moment, I would clearly have the upper hand) or take the chance that with time Basium's power could could become unstoppable.
But if I deliver a serious blow to them, then Hyborem-Sheim could become unstoppable.
Just finished (ok, quit) my first whole game as the Vampires and thought I might post my thoughts.
- My planned strategy (armageddon) never came to fruition. Though I was evil, founded the Veil, gated in the Infernals, etc., I could never build Elegy of the Sheaim. Why is this? I tried raising the counter through conquest, but there just weren't enough cities on the map.
- This is the first game I didn't shoot for archmages with meteors and decided to give the other spheres a chance. I have to say, death magic is really, really INCREDIBLY powerful.
Late in the game I had about 8 mages grouped together with a military escort. 8 simultaneous 'contagion' spells will 100% depopulate any city so a skeleton can conquer it. Magic resistance didn't matter. Actually nothing stood against it, not even level 13 heroes.
- Ditto for Priests of the veil and their ring of fire. This is a unit available early in the game who can get Fire II as its first promotion, making them able to cast ring of fire immediately.
Rings of fire are dangerous to the user, can start accidetntal wars (oops,) and don't do that much damage by themselves. Stack a bunch of veil priests up though and they're unstoppable. My 6-7 priests wasted a stack of 20 units, the toughest of which was a high level heavy crossbowman, in a single round.
- The broken lands. When this began to spread there were a lot of resources on burning sands tiles, making them unworkable. I was able to work this out myself by using 'spring' to put out the fire before moving a worker/adept in. The AI never figured it out.
- When I sent my stack of heroes/mages/priests/skeletons into enemy territory, the enemy responded by sending assassins. Did they attack my liches, archmages, or my patriarch? Nope, they wanted to assassinate the skeletons. Go fig. That descision cost that AI player (Auric) the game.
- Though I was the vampires, I never got a unit high enough level to make Vampire lord. That made me very sad.
- I was playing Prince level, but the only AI spells I saw were a couple low-level conjurer spells. When do the AI actually use their magic? These guys were supposedly more powerful than me.
- The Infernals didn't die this time, but they didn't do much either.
If you didnt get high enough to make vampire lords you just werent using them right. There is a way.![]()
It's feasting, isn't it. Dammit, why didn't I think of that before??
I u want countless levelups, u should have played on higher difficulty, so AI would make zounds of troops for u to slayThough I was the vampires, I never got a unit high enough level to make Vampire lord. That made me very sad.
- I was playing Prince level
Hehe... seems u figured that one out just a little too late (but hey, that only means u get to play ANOTHER vampire game!) May I recommend following the veil and choosing sacrifice the weak together with agricultural civics... then u will get some major cities in no time.
LET THE FEASTING BEGIN!![]()
Use cheats if you really fear that you are in danger, I do It most of the time to aid me partially on tactics.
It's feasting, isn't it. Dammit, why didn't I think of that before??
Edit:
So you're saying it won't be possible to kill with spells anymore? That's too bad, killing things with spells is fun. And realistic.
I just thought maybe you could make it possible to build magical countermeasures, like maybe a ring of warding style structure that adds magic resistance or reduces damage.
No.
Thank God -The Ai