How to counter illithids in early game ?

Eressil3 · #1 April 20th, 2007, 07:28 AM

Mind blast is really powerfull. Rushing in the early turns with illithids can be very effective.

How to counter them ?
- hordes of chaff ?
- awaken SC ?
- does drain 3 help ?
- does an astral bless help ?
- ???

johnarryn · #2 April 20th, 2007, 09:16 AM

Yes, hordes of chaff help. As do fast-moving cavalry who can flank the Illithids... the spell anti-magic is also useful, as are effective archers such as longbows or crossbows.

Manuk · #3 April 20th, 2007, 09:48 AM

Theres not much need to a special strategy. They cost a lot of gold.
Everything you posted help. except for a SC that can get paralyzed.

Teraswaerto · #4 April 20th, 2007, 09:55 AM

Yeah, I've found illithids to be underpowered if anything. 50 gold is a lot, and it usually takes several mind blasts to paralyze a basic mr 10 human.

Morkilus · #5 April 20th, 2007, 01:05 PM

They used to be alot better in Dom2, where large armies were pretty rare outside of AE Ermor. And then, you would just kill the mage

I would say yes, large armies of chaff. Find your cheapest-resource guys and throw them at 'em, as long as they aren't mindless (I don't think there are any mindless commanders with leadership?)

Xietor · #6 April 20th, 2007, 01:14 PM

As Pangaea, R'lyeh is a pain soley because Pangaea cannot enter the water after them. High mr and high hps, plus flying, ranged, and fast troops available at low resource cost, make Pangaea one race the R'lyeh should avoid.

In the MA, I can think of no other land based race better suited to fight mind blasters.