Tip: Counter to Darkness?

[konming]

Of course you can use items to make it fire immune, cannot you?

[JimMorrison]

Vulnerabilities and resistances are cumulative.

So if a unit is 100% Fire vulnerable, it is in fact -100% Fire resistant, meaning that if you add 100% FR from items, then he is at normal damage.

[konming]

Yes, buring perls+dragon helm+fire plate = 150% FR and only requires const 2 and 15 fire gems (less with hammer). Adding a fire band or a charcoal shield (const 4, 5F5E each) provides the remaining 50% FR. See, it is not that hard to make a Mandaha fire immune.

[konming]

Now Lanka does not have F or E mages, and needs bless for their sacred troops. So forging such gear is quite difficult for Lanka.

[Gregstrom]

As a footnote:

The AI is apparently reluctant to cast Solar Brilliance against Mandaha darkness, even when scripted

I can see a few options:

1 - The AI has a weakness in this area.
2 - Solar Brilliance and Darkness are actually mutually exclusive in the sense that once one has been cast the other cannot ba cast over it.
3 - Mandaha Darkness is special in that (as per the unit flavour text) you specifically cannot cast Solar Brilliance against it.

Any thoughts?

[Jazzepi]

I know for a fact that solar brilliance does indeed cancel out darkness. I've had it cast against me, and seen it work. That said, this darkness was the kind cast by Ermor.

Jazzepi

[AreaOfEffect]

It is possible that the AI didn't consider the opposing army to be a threat. In which case the AI prefers not to use gems in battle. Was the force you were fighting much smaller then the army you brought?

[Psycho]

I know for a fact that 2 is not true. I've been casting solar brilliance over darkness when fighting Ctis as Kailasa. I don't know about mandahas though. You could try forbidden light if that's in your reach - it autocasts solar brilliance. Or you could try to surprise him with skelly spam - forge some skullfaces, boots of quickness and some reinvig. items and give them to commanders (best undead ones, no additional enc.).

[Kristoffer O]

Green lions have unresistable AoE dmg. Might shoot a bit off target during darkness, but should hurt the demons good..
With W/F they are a bit difficult to get, but as TC you should have access to them.

[Ironhawk]

I dont think #3 is valid. I've never seen an instance where a battlefield enchantment was not cast due to the presence of another BE (which was not the exact same enchantment).