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Old June 29th, 2009, 04:54 PM
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Confused three noobie questions

Noobie questions

I thank you in advance for answers…I’ve found in this endless forum and into manuals without results….

1) I get “The Ancient Master” (site) …I read : “enter for combat training” ….what do it means?
2) In ( Bogarus game) “Conjuration” 2nd level I see a spell: SUMMON SIMARGL in blue color (blue color ?!)and I didn’ found in spell index. Why?...but in Marignon game in same school and same level this spell don’t exist. Why?
3) Spell “Call of the wind” (A2) has number of effects 20 : What do it means “number of effects” ?

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Old June 29th, 2009, 05:03 PM

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Default Re: three noobie questions

The site will give you bonus XP. It is pretty much horrible and should generally be ignored.

Blue spells are nation-specific, and at this point a lot of the nation-specific spells have been added via patches (including whole new nations with spells) and hence are not in the rulebook.

Number of effects on a summoning spell is how many summons you get. In this case you get 20 birds. Some summon spells come with extra effects that are not included, such as the great hawk leader for CotW, or the devil from Horde From Hell. Stuff like this is easiest to figure out just by casting the spells though, not waiting on forum posts. =)
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Old June 29th, 2009, 05:04 PM

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Hello Kaffa and welcome to the game.

I'll answer your questions in proper order:

(1)This means that you can have a commander in the same province as the ancient master enter the site. You do that on the same menu you find all other commander actions, it is reached by pressing "space".

There are many different effects from entering sites, in this case it gives some experience points. Other sites can give you a number of monsters per month (like Devils, or different kind of Undead). Others give you a chance to adventure, getting you magical items and other interesting things.

(2) The blue spells are nation-specific spells. This means (perhaps you guessed it now) that only Bogarus can cast Summon Simargl. There are some blue spells that are shared by a few nations, like T'ien C'hi having mostly the same spells in all ages.

(3)This means that the spell will summon 20 eagles for you, as call of the wind is a summoning spell. Number of effects means different things for different spells, with an attack spell it might mean the amount of attacks you get.

You could get all these answers from the manual and more, try reading it and you'll find plenty of helpful advice and ideas.

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1. The ancient master gives experience to whoever enters the site. In case you don't know, units gain experience by existing and taking part in battles in dominions, and the more experience a unit has the higher its stats become.
2. Spells in blue like that are national spells. These are spells that can only be cast by that particular nation, or a small number of nations. You didn't find it in your manual because bogarus was created after the release of the game.
3. Number of effects in that case is the number of units it creates. Call of the wind summons a commander bird and 20 lesser birds to any province you wish.
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Old June 29th, 2009, 05:04 PM
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1) I get “The Ancient Master” (site) …I read : “enter for combat training” ….what do it means?
8 XP points per turn.

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2) In ( Bogarus game) “Conjuration” 2nd level I see a spell: SUMMON SIMARGL in blue color (blue color ?!)and I didn’ found in spell index. Why?...but in Marignon game in same school and same level this spell don’t exist. Why?
It's a national spell. Bogarus didn't exist when the Manual was written, that's why it isn't there.

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3) Spell “Call of the wind” (A2) has number of effects 20 : What do it means “number of effects” ?
It summons Black Hawks. 20 of them.

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Old June 29th, 2009, 05:06 PM

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1) A commander in that province should have access to the "Enter Site" order. If he does so, he will get experience. It's not really very useful. Maybe if you had a non-mage commander sitting around with nothing useful to do until the next war started...

2) It's a national spell for Bogarus. It's not in the manual since Bogarus was added in a patch. Marignon has national angelic summons at a higher level.

3) For Call of the Wind: 20 birds. In general "number of effects" is exactly that: the number of creatures summoned or the number of lightning bolts or meteors or whatever that strike the battlefield.
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Old June 29th, 2009, 05:09 PM

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Default Re: three noobie questions

It sucks how slow people are to answer questions on this forum.
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I wonder how many points micah gets for a quadruple ninja.
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Old June 29th, 2009, 05:15 PM

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My post was both the longest and had the most adjectives, my junior high teach would be so proud of me :^)

Now, to plan my revenge against Micah...
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I wonder how many points micah gets for a quadruple ninja.
Well 16 seems logical.
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