Huh ? Horror Mark targetting ?

[Ragnarok-X]

Im kinda puzzled here. Huge fortress battle, i got 200 size 2 guys and a mother of nature god.
Defender has a bunch of lizards and a half a douzen abyssian demonbreds. Breds are apparently scripted to 5x Horror Mark.
Now, i would except the Breds to randomly hand out horror marks. Instead, what happens is that for 5 rounds, all demonbreds horrormark the mother of nature ?
wtf ?

[thejeff]

Most single target spells prefer to target the largest (size & hp) enemy.

Probably good strategy, in this case. Horror marking won't win the battle, unless you're also spamming horrors. A bunch of single horror marked troops aren't really a big deal. A single heavily marked god is probably permanently dead very shortly.

[Bwaha]

Just gotta love horror mark followed by Hell Power...



It's just so wrong...

[don_Pablo]

There were no demonbreds, just lizard-shamans and some mercenaries.
Shaman's script: slave, horror mark x 4

Most spells with AoE 1 person tend to hit the largest creature (your pretender). And heavily horror-marked pretender is doomed to meet Doom-horrors.

I have a game where my God is constantly duelling Eater of Heroes.

[Knai]

Originally Posted by don_Pablo

I have a game where my God is constantly duelling Eater of Heroes.

Are you implying that your god usually wins these duels? Because that is impressive.

[don_Pablo]

Originally Posted by Knai

Are you implying that your god usually wins these duels? Because that is impressive.

Proper equipment helps.

* Gloves of Gladiators
* boots of quickness
* astral serpent

+ friendly dominion
+ inherent flight
+ some other items

All the horrors I have seen don't have PR.
So they are paralised and killed.

[NTJedi]

Originally Posted by Ragnarok-X

Im kinda puzzled here. Huge fortress battle, i got 200 size 2 guys and a mother of nature god.
Defender has a bunch of lizards and a half a douzen abyssian demonbreds. Breds are apparently scripted to 5x Horror Mark.
Now, i would except the Breds to randomly hand out horror marks. Instead, what happens is that for 5 rounds, all demonbreds horrormark the mother of nature ?
wtf ?

Largest size creatures are always targeted on the battlefield. If you want to help protect her from horrormarks then walk into battle with LOTS of size6 creatures... like elephants.

[Ragnarok-X]

Apparently its no big deal. I cant see how many of those markings actually hit her, but after 3 turns i got not a single horror attack, which leads me to believe that despite 25 attacks only 1 or 2 got through ?

[Shardphoenix]

Every single one got through. It`s just that chance of attack is like 1% per mark.

[Ragnarok-X]

How would you know how many pierced the mothers MR ?