sea trolls maintance

[odd_enuf]

i know land trolls have a gold upkeep cost, but do there sea cousins have the same?

odd_enuf

[Arryn]

Originally posted by odd_enuf:
i know land trolls have a gold upkeep cost, but do there sea cousins have the same?<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">According to Zen's SCQR, it's 3g/turn.

[Johan K]

You can find the Ballad of Regeneration here:

http://www.quartertothree.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8984&start=60

It is a little more than halfway down the page and contains much valuable info on troll upkeep.

[LintMan]

Originally posted by Arryn:
According to Zen's SCQR, it's 3g/turn. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Anyone know why trolls/sea trolls/Sea Kings have upkeep, when so many other (seemingly equally or more powerful) summons don't? 45 W suddenly seems like a whole lot for a Sea King's Court, when it's going to cost you 55 upkeep!

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by LintMan:
Anyone know why trolls/sea trolls/Sea Kings have upkeep, when so many other (seemingly equally or more powerful) summons don't? 45 W suddenly seems like a whole lot for a Sea King's Court, when it's going to cost you 55 upkeep! <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Apparently because they have a gold cost, as the units can be recruited normally from sites or certain provinces: As a result, they're assumed to have upkeep because there's a gold cost associated with them.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by LintMan:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by Arryn:
According to Zen's SCQR, it's 3g/turn. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Anyone know why trolls/sea trolls/Sea Kings have upkeep, when so many other (seemingly equally or more powerful) summons don't? 45 W suddenly seems like a whole lot for a Sea King's Court, when it's going to cost you 55 upkeep! </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I guess rocks and sticks (a normal troll diet) are valuable in the world of Dom? Or the money may be weregild for the children the trolls are supposed to be fed (according to the spell description).

[LintMan]

Originally posted by Arryn:
I guess rocks and sticks (a normal troll diet) are valuable in the world of Dom? Or the money may be weregild for the children the trolls are supposed to be fed (according to the spell description). <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Weregild - I like that explanation! (though I'd still prefer no upkeep)

[Norfleet]

Wergild doesn't really apply when all of your population has been killed, as with Ermor. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Wergild doesn't really apply when all of your population has been killed, as with Ermor. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Perhaps the trolls then eat the gold in lieu of being deprived of children? Whoever said that you can't eat gold never met a troll.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
Perhaps the trolls then eat the gold in lieu of being deprived of children? Whoever said that you can't eat gold never met a troll. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I guess that's one way of making sure you get the minerals you need in your diet. Usually I'm recommending something like that for iron, though...

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by Arryn:
Perhaps the trolls then eat the gold in lieu of being deprived of children? Whoever said that you can't eat gold never met a troll. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I guess that's one way of making sure you get the minerals you need in your diet. Usually I'm recommending something like that for iron, though... </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Trolls get plenty of iron from foolish knights. A troll suffering from a gold deficiency displays symptoms of irritability (though it's really hard to tell given their normally cheerful disposition) and an unusual craving for shiny objects of any sort, especially eyeballs.

[Kristoffer O]

Trolls are incredibly greedy. What they do with their stipends is unknown. Tax collectors worldwide dream of solving this mystery. The trolls dream of juicy tax collectors.

Sea troll cost - 50
Troll cost - 60

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
Trolls are incredibly greedy. What they do with their stipends is unknown. Tax collectors worldwide dream of solving this mystery. The trolls dream of juicy tax collectors.

Sea troll cost - 50
Troll cost - 60 <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, I found that out once in a monster World game. "Hey, I've got tons of Water gems, and there are all those pesky Sea provinces to conquer... let's place all Sea Kings on Monthly casting of Sea King's Court for a few turns..." followed, a few turns later, by "Bankrupt? Me?"