I have never gotten this event in a game, but I've frequently seen the AI get it. Reading the XML shows that mining is a prerequisite, and that there's only a 20% chance per game that it will be active, but other than that, I'm lost. Can anyone tell me more about how this event fires off? Is there a prerequisite building or something?
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It is random. Four out of five games it will never happen; the other one out of five games it could happen to you, or to one of the other AIs, or not at all (the event must still be rolled as a result, which may not happen even if it is active). If playing games with 6 AIs then the event would happen to you in less than one out of every 35 games, and that's a rough average across all FfH2 players. One person might happen to get the event in one out of every 10 games, another might never get the event at all.
If you're asking about this because you want to base a strategy around getting the event, then don't bother. All the "wasted" attempts to get the event will be too frustrating and time wasting to make up for the games you'd get to play in which you got the event.
If you're asking about this because you want to base a strategy around getting the event, then don't bother. All the "wasted" attempts to get the event will be too frustrating and time wasting to make up for the games you'd get to play in which you got the event.
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Once I got it as the Luchuirp. All my Wood Golems had it. Very nice, since they normally can't get promotions. Unfortunately, it was completely pointless. My neighbors, the Sheaim, declared war on me... Fire and wood golems don't mix. I died very quickly.
JonathanStrange
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You'd think that but just as promotions like Formation I (+40% against Mounted units) or Shock I (+40% against Melee) are useful but don't knock out horsemen or melee troops, Cover I doesn't mean doom for Elves.
Wiley Elven leaders don't rely on archery all that much after they've access to other, stronger attacking troops. Archers, when I still have them, are mainly my city defenders and even then I have melee units garrisoned alongside them.
There used to be anti-Elf promotions but I always thought race-specific promos were a little too narrow to use a promo on, but I can't recall seeing the anti-Elf promotion in a long while. It may no longer exist. Good riddance.
I hear people say that a lot, and it's true that that event is very common. But for every time I get that event, I usually get one or more other events that improve plot yields instead. Why is it so badwrong for an event to have a negative effect? Besides which, the entire point of that event (among others) is that it's supposed to be a common filler event to cover the times which the prerequisites for the more rare and special events have not been met yet. If you think that the rare and special events would still be rare and special if they happened every turn, well that's crazy. You might as well just remove the entire event system at that point, since it would serve no purpose other than to give arbitrary random bonuses.
Hear! Hear!
