i got a noob question for you smart guys

[Kindjal]

Hey guys, ive never posted here before but ive been reading the forms here for a while now. Most of you guys are super helpfull and i got a question for ya. My friend and I have been playing each other for a couple of months now and he has been using the fairy queen who summons sprites. and it seems to me that thoses stinkn little guys woop the stuff outa me every time. thoes elf shots put huge chuncks of my army to sleep just to get slaughterd later. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] is there a good counter to this?!? thanks for you help!

-Kindjal

[Pickles]

They cause fatigue IIRC & the spell "Relief" will remove lots of fatigue - it is N3 and Enchantment 6 or 7.
Reinvigoration items might help on your leaders along with life draining effects as these restore HP & reduce fatigue. I am not sure if they do it fast enough though. The effect is MR negates & the spell Antimagic (enchantment 4 S3) boosts MR plus several items do so too.

O fatigue units (most undead & constructs) are immune to spells that cause fatigue & I think this applies to other effects.

The fairy queen is quite high level - attacking soonest would mean she is not yet around.

Pickles

[Wuppin]

Hmm, this is an extremely tough question! Being a noob myself, I can only offer ideas that may or may not work. I had not thought of the relief spell, that may indeed be effective. Also, constructs are an awsome idea!

1) High MR helps to negate the effect, although enough sprites will put you to sleep eventually anyway.

2) Ranged attacks do not figure defense skill when hitting so they might be able to deal some damage to sprites. Maybe command archers to target "flying units"?

3) They do only have 2 hitpoints so area of effect things might work really well, AKA falling fires and the like. Getting these spells to target sprites would be impossible though.

4) A spell that is really high level reseach but targets the whole battle field for some damages like "bone grinding" or the fire or water spells that have area of effect around 25 or so.

5) Use storm, darkness, or mist to get their accuracy down to crap.

I don't feel any of my ideas will *stop* sprites, just reduce their total butt wupping domination of your poor troops. A combination of counters would obviously work best... I would *really* like to hear some more ideas on this subject.