[HJ]

Originally posted by Ironhawk:
But bad in that it also did the same thing to my priest, who was promptly poisoned and killed

Serpent priests immune to poison, who were you using to lead them? And hydras have a morale of 15, which is very very good even without berserking. I usually have an army of them commanded by my serpent priest prophet with fanaticisms, just in case. Or, if they're not sacred, give them to an archtheurg with poison ring for the same effect. To make large Groups, recruit around 2/3 hatchlings for numbers and 1/3 big ones for the punch. It worked quite well for me. They don't mix well with any other troops unless other troops are undead, which is not unthinkable, but not too easy to do with Pythium. In one of my Serpent Cult games, I used PoD pretender for this very purpose, and as C'tis you can easily do the same with your mages - e.g. mix them with behemoths. Just remember that C'tis slingers will in fact poison themselves with their shots, as they have short range and will advance into the clouds, but you have lvl4 priests again to counter that. In regular C'tis, you can use the dancers in combination as well.

Cheers,

[ June 11, 2004, 20:31: Message edited by: HJ ]