Best Province targeting ritual?

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
[QB]Heavy rains happens just as much, if not more, with Luck. Luck has absolutely no effect on preventing it.

This particular claim is utter bull****.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
This particular claim is utter bull****.

You can say that, and go ahead and take Luck 3. Then I'm going to laugh at you when you wasted all those points to have your provinces rained out anyway. Luck-3 will do nothing to stop this.

I hear constantly about this happening to people who take Luck...oddly, it rarely happens to me, and I'm getting the points for Misfortune. I have to conclude that Luck does absolutely nothing to help here.

When you then consider that you must *PAY* for Luck, and that it is antisynergistic with the required Order, you have to wonder if it's worthwhile.

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Cohen:
But what about when you lose an entire army cause someone cast for 25 gems 165 Longdead Horsemen and 5 Wraith mounted commanter unleashing this sudden strike on you?

Sudden strike? Your army can't be touched if it's inside of your castle.

If you're in front of an ENEMY castle, you should have expected this! It's not sudden when you expected it to happen and braced for impact.

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The point being made is that their isn't always a castle to hide your troops in. As a result large armies can be seriously hurt by these fast undead units. I've seen several cases where the single wraith lord could not be stopped forcing the enemy to retreat.

When comparing total damage done per gem spent against the other summoned attack spells such as army of the dead or phantasmal attack... ghost riders is almost always the best choice.

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I believe the ghost rider spell would be more balanced if the Wraith Lord was removed or the price of gems increased.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
[QB]You can say that, and go ahead and take Luck 3. Then I'm going to laugh at you when you wasted all those points to have your provinces rained out anyway. Luck-3 will do nothing to stop this.

Which, as I've already stated is complete and utter bull****. Why don't you go learn how the game mechanics work instead of spreading misinformation and lies while patronizing the new players.

I hear constantly about this happening to people who take Luck...oddly, it rarely happens to me, and I'm getting the points for Misfortune. I have to conclude that Luck does absolutely nothing to help here.

Thanks for admitting that you have absolutely no evidence to back up your assertion that the luck scale does not affect the frequency of rain events.

[Vicious Love]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Generally, attempting to specifically kill population is a counterproductive exercise in the long run:

Not if some poor schmoe forgets to dome his home province, it isn't. Being unable to profit from the province once you conquer it may be pretty disadvantageous in the long run, but not nearly as much as taking said economic losses along with a production hit in the only province that can produce Knights of the Chalice, spider warriors, lava warriors, etc.

[Cohen]

Well, brace for impact didn't do anything.

Against that undead horde (6 time casted 33 Longdead horsemen and 1 Wraith Lord) against

4 Friars
1 Inquisitor
3 quickened Demilich casting whiter bones
1 Demilich casting whiter bones

about 50 flagellants F9S9 blessed.

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all this for 30 Death Gems ...
and there's not only to consider the cost of lost units, but the income of the province, the magic sites inside and so on.

[Ice_Sickle]

I'm still a newbie but getting conjuration 9 and 6 level 4 death mages is quite an accomplishement. BTW, how do you get 6 4D mages?


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