Eater of the Dead

[spirokeat]

Does this summon have some kind of critical mass in terms of corpses it can eat before it goes beserk or something ?

I have it in a fortress that Im holding and being attacked every turn so hes gaining corpses...

Any advice, welcome.

Spiro

[Norfleet]

Yes, and every so often, when it eats enough, you'll get a warning that it has eaten too many corpses and has grown larger. It'll then change form to a slightly more corpsey form, until it becomes an Unfettered and goes berserk. If you're at a fort, it'll then park itself in front of said fort and start devouring anyone who tries to come in or out.

[En Forcer]

There have been some great ideas about stuff you can do with one of these guys...

I like casting gift of reason on one, equipping with a couple of powerful artifacts and maybe for the hell of it, make him your prophet.

A big sloppy butt kicking machine!

[Taqwus]

For the heck of it, I once empowered an Eater of the Dead until it could cast mistform, summon earthpower, and invulnerability, and then cloud trapezed it onto a hapless AI capital.
Sadly, it threw away the script once it became the Unfettered.

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by En Forcer:
I like casting gift of reason on one, equipping with a couple of powerful artifacts and maybe for the hell of it, make him your prophet.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Usually after reaching a certain size they leave your command and go independent.
Will your suggestion stop him from going beserk and ditching your army?

[Taqwus]

A GoR'd Eater of the Dead will still become a neutral Unfettered when it grows too big.

You can enslave/hellbind/charm an Unfettered; at that point, should you GoR it again (if you enslaved it) perhaps it'll stay yours?

[Molog]

When I wished for an unfettered it turned on me the second it got a corpse to eat.

[lol76]

ive never use an eater of the dead, but wouldnt a slave collar work? or is that just me

[Nagot Gick Fel]

An interesting twist is if you make the Eater of the Dead your pretender, it will eventually turns against you too. That's the only way I've found so far to create a true independent pretender (I mean, with the 'pretender' flag). But I've not pushed the experiment far enough to see if this kind of pretender exsudes its own dominion, or is affected by yours, etc.

'Revolutions' is an MP game idea I'm toying with, where every nation would be given an EotD pretender you'd use for early expansion and abandon in a place where it'd hinder your enemies more than yourself.

Oh, BTW, don't try to control a pretender EotD turned independent (Charm, Control the Dead, etc.), it doesn't work. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif