Q. about The Ark

[Crazy]

Description says it blinds and diseases non-holy troops.

Is this only in combat? Can I put it on a priest and have him travel with it to increase dominion? If it hurt non-holy troops when not in combat I will not bother.

I am playing Abysia and do not use holy troops(too expensive).

[Vicious Love]

Only in combat, and your high-MR non-sacred troops are relatively safe, particularly in short battles.

[Cainehill]

But the Ark will disease / blind your pretender if he goes into a battle with the Ark present, as will non-sacred prophets, neither of which makes sense to me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Vicious Love]

Well, your pretender is a false god. The Ark can sense that sort of thing. At least your followers are sincere in their false religion. Still awfully silly, if you ask me.

[Edi]

Cainehill, does the non-sacred prophets part refer to Ermorian prophets and DT C'tis unholy priests?

Edi

[Endoperez]

If the Ark only checks Sacred stat, being Blessed wouldn't help at all. If being a Prophet only makes you Blessed, like the Shroud of the Saint...

[Edi]

Wait, prophetizing a unit does not set it as sacred if it wasn't already? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

Then again, that does make sense from the program mechanics perspective, even if it doesn't from the game perspective. And I suppose it checks the intrinsic sacred flag, instead of whether the unit has holy magic or is a prophet.

Edi

[Endoperez]

It should be easy to check for the Prophet and Pretender flags, though.

[Oversway]

Even if its weird, it makes it more interesting to not check http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Nerfix]

Yeah, it gives a whole new "Pantokrator is whipping you all heretics down" perspective to the item. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif