Endgame Wish Strategy

[DonCorazon]

Reading the Kingmaker thread discussing the end of Perpetuality got me to thinking - I have yet to get to the point in an MP game where I was capable of using Wishing as an avenue to victory but I'd be curious to hear how this typically plays out.

It sounds like the idea is to keep wishing for gems and then use those gems to kit out more and more SCs? How many gems do you get with a Wish?

What are the other commonly Wished for things? I have seen the long list of possible wishes but am more interested in what people actually/commonly wish for in competitive MP games. Thanks.

[Zeldor]

175 gems from Wish, including 25 astral, so 150 gems for 75S.

People wish for some artifacts [Chalice, Sceptre mostly, also Gate stone as it's cheaper to wish than forge] and SC chassises [mostly Seraphy].

I had 2 wishers in EpikBattel and 90% of the time they wished for gems which were transformed into hordes of SCs [I had about 200-300S gems a turn there with clams and Nexus].

[konming]

I could hardly found uses for gems like F, A, E. What do you use those wished gems in end game?

[Micah]

E gems are always excellent, I don't see your problem there. A can be used for cloud trapeze fuel and F for flames form the sky if needed, but you can always just alchemize them back to S if you've got too many.

[Zeldor]

E for items mostly [you can never have too much], some people also make GoRed Gargoyles as late-game thugs.

F for artillery spells, you can burn even 500 gems in one turn on artillery barrage on 1 domed VP province.

A is like Micah said.

[DonCorazon]

I have many uses for E gems in late game: endgame troops (Mechanical Men / Living Statues), remote assassination (Living Earth), quick sieges (Crumble), and gear (Earth Boots, Hammers, Marble Armor mainly).

F and W mainly for remote attack spells as was mentioned

A mostly for air boosters as I like to be able to have many casters capable of busting out some Fog Warriors. Also Seeking Arrows are quite amusing.

[Nikelaos]

the manual mentions the ability to wish for 'Armageddon' that sounds pretty end gameish although i have never seen it in use, can anyone state the exact effects of Armageddon?

[ano]

Originally Posted by Nikelaos

the manual mentions the ability to wish for 'Armageddon' that sounds pretty end gameish although i have never seen it in use, can anyone state the exact effects of Armageddon?

Look here for the full list of wishable things.

[Nikelaos]

oh i see, 1 third of all units and population die, though it also affects you , i guess you could make an endgame strtegy from it.

[Meglobob]

Wish gems, wish Seraph, repeat until game has been won.

My experience is wishing very, very rarely wins games because by the time you can wish, you or someone else as already won.

Obviously Megagames are an exception to that rule, being so big.