PsiSoldier
April 27th, 2009, 06:18 AM
Ok I just had a thought and dont have time to run through a test with it but does anyone know off hand how it works if a communion Master is casting Drain Life?
Will it give equal health and (I guess it gives fatigue recovery) to all of the communion slaves as well as the master?
The Fatigue Recovery or "Endurance" as the spell description says is the effect I am really after here. If all the slaves receive the same amount of fatigue recovery that the master does than my thought is that only a few masters casting Drain Life could very effectively keep all the slaves fatigue down with no problem. I don't have that much experience using Drain Life though so I'm not sure about how much it does. Or if it actually would affect the slaves as it does the master. Can anyone help me out here that knows? I intend to try it out over the next few turns of a game I'm in anyways but it would be nice to know ahead of time.
I just took over a position where the previous player was using a massive group of commanders capable of doing a large communion for his expansion. They were not set to use communion but they could do it very effectively. In order to balance it out to my liking I would use 20 slaves and about 16 masters. Which is likely overkill for the number of slaves needed and if Drain Life could refill the slaves fatigue than I'd forgo the last 4 slaves and make it 16 as anything over that wouldn't have an effect on the communion strength anyways. And set the 4 that I switch from slave to master to casting Drain Life instead. Which ultimately might have a larger effect on keeping the slaves fatigue down than simply having four more slaves.
Will it give equal health and (I guess it gives fatigue recovery) to all of the communion slaves as well as the master?
The Fatigue Recovery or "Endurance" as the spell description says is the effect I am really after here. If all the slaves receive the same amount of fatigue recovery that the master does than my thought is that only a few masters casting Drain Life could very effectively keep all the slaves fatigue down with no problem. I don't have that much experience using Drain Life though so I'm not sure about how much it does. Or if it actually would affect the slaves as it does the master. Can anyone help me out here that knows? I intend to try it out over the next few turns of a game I'm in anyways but it would be nice to know ahead of time.
I just took over a position where the previous player was using a massive group of commanders capable of doing a large communion for his expansion. They were not set to use communion but they could do it very effectively. In order to balance it out to my liking I would use 20 slaves and about 16 masters. Which is likely overkill for the number of slaves needed and if Drain Life could refill the slaves fatigue than I'd forgo the last 4 slaves and make it 16 as anything over that wouldn't have an effect on the communion strength anyways. And set the 4 that I switch from slave to master to casting Drain Life instead. Which ultimately might have a larger effect on keeping the slaves fatigue down than simply having four more slaves.