Life after Death Blessing oddities

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by Treebeard:
As I've posted in the bug thread, life after death just doesn't work for the holy serpents. It's a pity, if they transformed into tomb wyrms that would make the 200 point desert tomb theme a viable option.

If holy serpents transformed into tombwyrms Deser tombs would become overpowered, the same goes for units turning into Lictors when they die. Sure the Life after death effect is not awe inspiring for many holy units, but this is also true for many other lvl 9 bless effects, such as the ones for blood or astral.

Licker, the lvl 9 bless effect is not useless for C'tis. If you are Desert tombs it will increse the fear of the tombwyrms by +5 , increasing both the area and making the fear effect more difficult to resist.

I do not hink that desert tombs is one of the weaker national themes.

[ November 06, 2003, 18:15: Message edited by: johan osterman ]

[Nerfix]

I could say something about the usefullnes of Blood 9 blesssing if would know what "Death Curse" does, but extra Mr and Auto Twist Fate for Astral 9 isn't shabby at all...

[Treebeard]

IIRC, if a unit kills a unit with death curse, it becomes cursed.

I'll run some tests, but my gut feeling is that allowing HS to turn into TWs wouldn't turn C'tis into a powerhouse. Neither unit is very strong to begin with, and the huge price paid by the desert tomb theme is certainly a problem.

Originally posted by Nerfix:
I could say something about the usefullnes of Blood 9 blesssing if would know what "Death Curse" does, but extra Mr and Auto Twist Fate for Astral 9 isn't shabby at all...

[johan osterman]

Death curse is quite simply a chance that anyone killing the blessed unit is cursed, MR roll.

[HJ]

Originally posted by johan osterman:
If you are Desert tombs it will increse the fear of the tombwyrms by +5 , increasing both the area and making the fear effect more difficult to resist.

So the fear value also increases the area of effect for fear? Didn't know that, thanks.

edit: I guess the minor fear value has the same effect of increasing the area of effect as well?

[ November 06, 2003, 18:30: Message edited by: HJ ]

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by Treebeard:
IIRC, if a unit kills a unit with death curse, it becomes cursed.

I'll run some tests, but my gut feeling is that allowing HS to turn into TWs wouldn't turn C'tis into a powerhouse. Neither unit is very strong to begin with, and the huge price paid by the desert tomb theme is certainly a problem.

Actually your suggestion would make it less and not more desirable to be desert tombs, since it would mean that a magic score of 9 would give ordinary Ctis access to tombwyrms as well.

I have played Desert Tombs in MP betas and have not felt that they were underpowered.

[Nerfix]

How about Tombwyrms from 9 Death Sacred Serpents for DT C'tis and "just" dead Sacred Serpents for C'tis?