Vampire elephants

[BillSeurer]

Heh. You can gift any living thing apparently including animals. Somehow, though, a vampire elephant should inspire more dread than they actually did.

"I vant to suck your peanut butter!"

 

[Sarisin]

Yeah, I think the Vampirism gift needs to be examined. I often have Vampire Giant Spiders, Griffons, and Stooges. With the latter you have to shudder when you consider a large creature, a cross between Moe Howard and Christopher Lee bombarding a city with coconut cream pies!

 

[rocklikeafool]

LOL! You gotta love how you can even vamp the giant monkey. "I King Kong! I want bloody bannana!" lol.

 

[Darksaber1]

Yeah, I think the Vampirism gift needs to be examined. I often have Vampire Giant Spiders, Griffons, and Stooges. With the latter you have to shudder when you consider a large creature, a cross between Moe Howard and Christopher Lee bombarding a city with coconut cream pies!

You can get Vampire Wire-Haired Hunting dogs

 

[Fafnir13]

Given that vampirism in this game is more based on using spells to trap and consume souls, it does seem rather odd that animals can gain it. I suppose you can justify it by saying that their are animal handlers taking care of things "behind the scenes." If Alexis' pedia entry is accurate, you would just need to get the animal into the circle and have it be the only conduit for the trapped soul.

Side note:

I had a bloodpet reach level six. Gifted him. Drowned him. Upgraded into a Stygian guard. Upgraded into an Eidolon. Picked up many fun promotions like fear an canibalize along the way. Best vampire I ever made.

 

[Demus]

Side note:

I had a bloodpet reach level six. Gifted him. Drowned him. Upgraded into a Stygian guard. Upgraded into an Eidolon. Picked up many fun promotions like fear an cannibalize along the way. Best vampire I ever made.

ouch... imagine getting an adventurer turned bloodpet, following the same path. The exp just makes it easier, heroic strength & defence a true killer .

On a side note, I reckon vampiric elephants should be allowed to be create, but they shouldn't be allowed to gift themselves. Going back to the earthly vampires, the idea is to inject some vampiric enzyme, without killing the target. Sounds tough to do with fangs twice the size of their normal tusks (on a side note: OUCH).

 

[rocklikeafool]

On a side note, I reckon vampiric elephants should be allowed to be create, but they shouldn't be allowed to gift themselves. Going back to the earthly vampires, the idea is to inject some vampiric enzyme, without killing the target. Sounds tough to do with fangs twice the size of their normal tusks (on a side note: OUCH).

Imagine how that'd go. "Airight, Stumpy, stick em and turn em...eh, Stumpy, you killed him...:sigh: try again..." 2 hours later "STOP F*CKIN KILLIN EM!!!!"

 

[zup]

A war elephant needs more strength. And yeah vampire elephants are sweet.

But think of Drifa in Fall Further. Decius, the conqueror leader of Calabim, gets his hands on an Illian city. He proceeds to do stir from slumber. And then you go the usual way of gifting. With Drifa's strength even that 10% is pretty nice.

 

[deadliver]

LOL I love vamping the stooges.

 

[it-ogo]

No one idea is completely new in this world (Erebus).
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=212252&page=3
n47 from Oct 29, 2007, 04:54 PM

Edit: Actually once I had vamp elephant in real game.

The more time you spend on this forum the more repetitions you detect... Nusuth.

 

[deadliver]

Quick take back the prize $$$!

 

[Fenboy]

Back when War Elephants were a much more powerful unit (on par with War Tortoises & Stoneskin Ogres), Calabim couldn't train them for just this reason.

 

[Dora190]

As a lover of the Calabim, there are times when I feel that things do tend to get a little out of hand. Would it be possible to restrict the promotion to actual vampires. So only vampires can gift Vampirism, and Losha.

I'm pretty sure I read that Vampirism only works with living creatures, but My archmages can still feast once they get the Lich promotion.

On a related note, what happened to Aeron's bounty event? Several times i've been the only person with a very high level assassin but this hasn't triggered (and no, no one else has a high level assassin either)

 

[rocklikeafool]

Not sure the guilds are really workin quite as well as they should. (In other words, they've yet to be revamped.)

 

[slowcar]

Don't forget the good wood elephants from D&D. they had a skillrank of 8 in climb, it was rumored that they hide in trees and jump on their prey. they might be even more dangerous then vampire elephants!

 

[FireBlaze]

Don't forget the good wood elephants from D&D. they had a skillrank of 8 in climb, it was rumored that they hide in trees and jump on their prey. they might be even more dangerous then vampire elephants!

Second only to the dragon elephants, who shoot flame out of their trunks while flying. They are also rumored to be the size of a kurotate city, and smell like one too!

 

[OzzyKP]

Not sure the guilds are really workin quite as well as they should. (In other words, they've yet to be revamped.)

Har, har, har.