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Old March 19th, 2007, 08:33 PM

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Default Could u stop Gorgon?

I have played 2 friends that are fairly experienced DOM players, and they have had no answer for my 5e 4n 3 a gorgon.

I keep her with items that make her immune to wrath of god, arrows, flame bolts, and cold. And if i see armies of casters, she casts as well, and does not fly into smite, soul slay or other spells range.

She is harder than most sc because petrification reduces even the undead to rubble. And with mistform, mirror image, 3 forms of regeneration, 26 armor class, air shield, immune to fire, poison, lightning, and cold(with items and elemental fortitude, good reinvigoration, she is a tough out.

Though my friends have never tried it, I am thinking an attack of eyeless tramplers could work, such as a ton of earth elementals. The gorgon is size 4, so would be somewhat vulnerable to being trampled by size 6 eyeless tramplers.
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Old March 19th, 2007, 08:42 PM
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Default Re: Could u stop Gorgon?

No SC is invincible.

The standard anti-SC battlespells would work for example.

Drain life, Soul Slay, Banefire, Gifts from Heaven and the like.

But your friends would have to moveguess correctly and if you use your gorgon together with a strong army it will be even harder.
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Old March 19th, 2007, 09:20 PM
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yeah earth ele's eat up petrifyers. (especially since they can be sent from casters at a capitol via earth attack.)

really all they need is a really high MR SC to go in with perhaps an armor negating or at least armor piercing weapon.
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Default Re: Could u stop Gorgon?

How about Mind hunt from distance would that work? My S9 pretender with eye of the void, spell focus and rune smasher kills 1 enemy commander per turn.
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Default Re: Could u stop Gorgon?

Aside from the obvious spells and the like a counter SC kitted out properly should be able to take her down fairly easily.

High MR takes care of the petrification, and beyond that a gorgon isn't going to be able to go head-to-head with any decent SC chassis. Mistform goes down first shot due to a magic weapon, 26 prot goes down to 13 against an AP weapon (elf bane?), and then you're left without any offensive punch against an SC nearly immune to your big gun. Once the mirror image breaks you're pretty much toast...maybe in home dominion with enough hp/regen yor gorgon would live long enough to get a lucky petrification roll, but things look pretty bleak.

Cyclops with E4/N2/W2 costs the same amount of pretender points. Outfit him with a lead shield, amulet of antimagic and armor/helm/weapon/boots/other trinket as needed for resistances or more MR, plus the mandatory reinvig. Without needing resistances I'd go Elf bane, rainbow armor, starshine skullcap, messenger boots and pendant of luck.

Script summon earthpower, elemental fortitude (if needed), personal regen, quicken self, iron will, attack and watch the carnage. That's a minimum of 30 MR, so if the petrification works it's just bad luck. 35 MR with skullcap/rainbow armor.
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Default Re: Could u stop Gorgon?

Pretenders are immune to mind hunt, i believe.
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Pretenders are immune to mind hunt, i believe.
They are not. The only thing they are immune to is mind control spells.
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Default Re: Could u stop Gorgon?

Drain Life does armor-negating 100-prec unresistable damage from a distance. Boots of Quickness + Standard of the Damned = 2x life drain per round. Leech also works.

Petrify is remote, always-hits, and causes paralysis even if it's resisted.

A flying Bane Lord with a nasty weapon like Gate Cleaver, boots of quickness, and an antimagic talisman can do wonders against anybody who's relying on time to cast buffs.

Massed Faeries (massive stun damage from the elf shots) and Mandragoras / Mannikin (sleep vines get 3att each or so, making swarms dangerous) can also be ugly.
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Default Re: Could u stop Gorgon?

easy to stop, i did some tests.....magic res19 alone is enough maybe lower works too.

but things with magic res udner 10 have no chance at all. usually gorgon is good to expand early on, but against other tough commanders with high magic res or just unique monsters she is pretty dead. high cost magic paths, too. there are far bette pretenders, like talking cyclops with high earth and fire and forging some good weapons for him. and you can have aegis shield too that is the same effect as what gorgon has. thing is you get that special way later, but with buffs most other SC pretender can kill weak indies anyways, i usually play indie strenght 8.
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Default Re: Could u stop Gorgon?

Cyclops is a dangerous pretender to use as an SC. He has an alarming tendency to get his single eye poked out.
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