Assasins

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Teleolurian:
I've always wanted to make a mageslayer assassin with a Bow of Botulf.

It can certainly be a big help in taking a province. Especially if the mage is leading alot of nasty summons.

[ December 10, 2003, 17:51: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Saxon]

I can see a nice use for assassins if you are playing Ermor in multiplayer. You know your enemies will buy lots of priests, who hurt your undead, but are useless in hand to hand. If you send your assassins in against an army with lots of priests and only a couple of other commanders, the probability is that they will attack priests.

Any assassin will kill a priest, so you likely to get results with no loss. The main (or at least my main) counter to your undead has just been weakened and you have recouped most of the cost of your assassin. One more success and you are costing them more than you are paying. (I think priests cost 50 and assassins 60)

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Saxon:
I can see a nice use for assassins if you are playing Ermor in multiplayer.

Any assassin will kill a priest, so you likely to get results with no loss.

The hard part is getting assassins as Ermor which cant be banished by priests. I havent played Ermor much in Dom2 but Im guessing this is still true.

You can use the heart thing to give assasin skills to any stealth unit. You might use a druid province to create units for that. Hmmm actually I guess in this case just a cheap independent scout would do. Never mind. I guess its not all that hard after all. Good idea.

[Argitoth]

Originally posted by Teraswaerto:
An Empoisoner with a Skull Staff (or something like that, gives +1 death magic) casting raise dead or raise skeletons is IMO the best type of assassin, since it's only one item and C'tis probably has plentiful death gems.

You are wrong. The best way to kill commanders is to script your assassin to cast Swarm. Thats 1 nature gem per dead commander. It works better than a star child or whatever that R'lyeh assassin is called, and it is even better than spending 10 death gems to cast raise skeletons.

The reason is that once swarm is cast, the mage will be dead before he gets to pull off a spell. Any other commanders will also die very quickly.

[ December 11, 2003, 15:48: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

[Teleolurian]

What school is Swarm?

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Argitoth:
The best way to kill commanders is to script your assassin to cast Swarm. Thats 1 nature gem per dead commander.

Clever...=)

[Argitoth]

Thanks, Saber Cherry.

Originally posted by Teleolurian:
What school is Swarm?

Level 4 Alteration. (Requires 1 Nature Magic)

Thats easier to get than Level 4 Construction and Level 2 Enchantment.

[ December 11, 2003, 17:00: Message edited by: Argitoth ]