Soulstone = continuous wolves?

tinkthank · #1 February 23rd, 2005, 03:24 PM

I was pretty sure that the Soulstone gave you a free Howl x1 at the start of battle. I had this on an assassin a few times and I thought it went like that.
Currently, my Soulstone is giving me continuous wolves, 1 howl per combat round, which is a heck of a lot of wolves.
Is that right?

Endoperez · #2 February 23rd, 2005, 03:39 PM

There is another artifact, Fenris Coat IIRC, that has similar theme. I don't know if that only works once or not, but I confused them the first time I saw that new item.

Wolves are not very powerful in non-assasinations, so I don't think its too powerful with wolves every round.

It might also be because you are now in a forest/mountain province. Wolves might be ready to asnwer to the call of their Soulstone, but that does not mean a lot in a swamp with maybe 5 wolves around...

Taqwus · #3 February 23rd, 2005, 10:42 PM

Yep, the Soulstone casts Howl every single turn. It's quite amusing during storming battles when they appear inside the castle walls... and they can distract enemy units, which is handy. There's a slight downside that your own casters might spend a lot of time casting buffing spells on wolves.

One could do some strange things based on this, such as casting large-scale boosters such as Marble Warriors or Battle Fortune to help 'em out, and letting them turn into Mandragoras via Haunted Forest.