Vengance of the Dead

[Calahan]

VotD is also good for trying to take out any Astral pathed Hall of Famer's, which Mind Hunt has trouble against for obvious reasons.

[Kuritza]

MR is notoriously unreliable. I had mr 25+ penetrated with 1-2 attempts, in several several games, routinely. I have penetrated MR 30 with my first and my only mind hunt, just two weeks ago. Etc, etc.

And no, its not 'VotD vs simple Mind Hunt'. Its 'Mind Hunt vs simple VotD'. Let me remind me that VotD is much lower in the research tree and it has much less restrictions, and its not hard to cast for many already powerful nations. Its just UNGODLY good in certain situations, and the fact that its not worth casting in other situations doesnt make it any better.

[PsiSoldier]

Yeah, there are definitly advantages of VOTD over Mind hunt. For one like thejeff mentioned VOTD targets the commander with the most kills. In another game beside the one I posted here where I routed an Earth king I managed to stick 3 VOTD's all in the same province on the same turn. I killed a High value Air Mage that had been casting Arrow Fend and blasting my troops with thunder strike, Then I took out an Arch devil that would have cast Fire Storm and wiped out all my undead And I got yet another commander as an added bonus. My enemy in that game had tried to break the siege of his fort at the same time and ended up facing my 20 or so Bow of War/visions foe equipped Bane's with no Arrow Fend and No Firestorm to wipe out my troops and thus he died horribly and lost a lot of good high value commanders and artifacts.

If I had simply Mind hunted who knows who it would have killed, but chances are it wouldn't have hit the targets I wanted to hit. And besides that I'm not too fond of risking getting my mage's feeble minded or what not due to some Astral mage I wasnt aware of being in the targeted province.

But to also address the thought that it in no way guarantee's success... If you know what your enemy is going to be casting you may very well be assured of success.. like in the case I stated above, I knew my enemy would be casting Fire Storm.. So he casts fire storm ends up with a ton of fatigue and is unable to defend himself and guess what? He's got no one there to block for him while he regains his endurance so he's dead as hell with pretty much no chance despite his phoenix pyre which doesnt help at all after casting fire storm.