Noob's shot at an R'lyeh AAR

[CharonJr]

Taqwus,

thank you for telling me that Communicants will help with priestly magic, too, I have not realised this till now, since I have never tried it in combination with a priest

I have used them to empower my mages fairly often, but tend to only do this when I have advanced my research fairly high.

I think once I reach construction 7 or 8 (forge of the ancients/high level artifacts) I will send some of my star children out to support my mages/priests.

Thank you again for helping me to learn this game

CharonJr

[CharonJr]

Atlanasha's summoning skill is now at 10 which is getting my hopes up about the chances to aquire a Vastness.

Once I get one I will have to start to empower/forge my way to Gift of Reason. I hope, that my gem acquisition program is running with full steam by this time.

Thank you for the information about the gems

CharonJr

[Arryn]

The earliest I've gotten a Vastness is summoning-9. Your chances after about summoning-12 to 14 is virtually nil, so if you don't get one soon you likely never will. Best of luck to you.

[Taqwus]

Another random bit of weirdness you might want to try:
Darkness.
It's not exactly an easy spell for R'lyeh to cast based on its national mages, but if you can get there (with communion, this might be not that hard late-game), but it reduces the precision, attack and defence of every living thing on the battlefield. This matters a little less for illithids than for others, because mindbLasting always hits even if they're *blind* (so Solar Brilliance is also more of an option for R'lyeh than most, incidentally.) R'lyeh is also penalized less by Storms than many, due to lack of fliers or archers and again the prec-100 mindbLasts.
(Storms + Darkness + Stellar Brilliance would be overkill, but might be worth trying once. )

[ioticus]

Charon, I think calling yourself a beginner is a gross misrepresentation.

[CharonJr]

Arryn (sorry ),

I have read before that you can't summon a Vastness past 14 summoning, but IIRC in a game where I got 2 Vastenesses I got one fairly late (first one at 9, haven't checked the other one, but I think about 20+ turns later - but maybe I didn't get many summons during those turns and was still at 14 at this time).

Is there any reason for no more Vastness past 14 summonig ?

Taqwus,

hehe, yup, I did it once before (storm vs. indi archers), but I haven't thought about combining the different effects

Thank you again

CharonJr

[ February 18, 2004, 16:54: Message edited by: CharonJr ]

[CharonJr]

Splooger,

thx (I guess ), but with less than 10 SP games under my belt (non of them played till the end) and no MP-games and with the new things I am learning on these forums every day, calling myself anything but a noob would be crazy.

But I think that playing strategy-games for about 20 years (pc & boardgames) is helping with some basics.

Btw, what are the points which make you consider me anything but a beginner ?

E.g. from what I have read on these forums I consider my rate of expansion to be way to slow to survive in any kind of competetive environment.

CharonJr