Help!! I'm feeling oppressed

1000yd_stare · #1 February 19th, 2004, 08:03 PM

In our mp game, my peace loving Ashen Empire, which never attacks first, will soon be attacked by jotun, abysia, and maybe mariginon.

Attempts at negotiation have fallen on deaf ears, (or could it be the mere fact that my troops are all muttering "brains.." in the background? nah.), so some advice on who to atta- er, 'defensively advance' on would be appreciated. My limited intel puts abysia and then jotun as the stronger of the 3, with marigion a bit back.

Right now I have the usual massive armies of fodder, and death gem income of about 12 a turn.

Zurai · #2 February 19th, 2004, 08:07 PM

Marignon is baaaaaaaad news for Ermor. Huge amounts of priests with good holy and fire magic = lots and lots (and lots and lots) of freshly re-dead corpses. Take them out as early as humanly possible. Jotunheim should be relatively easy for you to take on (well, as easy as fighting giants with human sized creatures ever is), since they only have 2 priests, neither of which is all that accurate and both of which are semi-expensive. I'm not familiar enouogh with Abyssia to say one way or the other.

Tricon · #3 February 19th, 2004, 08:12 PM

Definately go after marignon as soon as possible. As zurai said they are bad news for undead.

1000yd_stare · #4 February 19th, 2004, 08:14 PM

hmm, point taken. Is there any way I can destroy that Marginion holy site that burns my troops after I take the capital? Or do I just accept the fact that I will be taking casualities just by standing there?

PvK · #5 February 19th, 2004, 08:42 PM

Snuff out Marignon as fast as inhumanly possible! I don't think you can destroy that site, but you can try to stay there as briefly as possible with actual undead.

If you can summon/hire up things that can't be banished, that would be best. Otherwise, do your unholiest to protect the undead you use, but don't count on any undead "survivors." Scatter some undead in front to attract inefficient banish attempts. Race at their priests with undead riders. Get things that fly, to go fly and attack their priests. Kill the priests and take their lands and destroy their temples, quickly. Blitzdeath!

PvK

Taqwus · #6 February 19th, 2004, 08:43 PM

You can't destroy magical sites, ever. You might be able to preach them out, but with Marignon that's usually a bit tricky as well... of course, this all assumes they aren't using Diabolical Faith.

Abysia shares fire, astral and strong holy, but Anathemant Dragons are very expensive and their mages tend to be a bit on the imprecise side, and lack the national access to crossbows (flaming crossbow bolts are not good for undead!).