Oi! Who's being mean to my elephants?

Norfleet · #1 June 27th, 2004, 09:36 PM

If you're seeing a lot of units missing both eyes, somebody is likely firing a Vision's Foe at you: It's a crossbow that instantly puts out all of the eyes of the target (probably with bolts that fragment before impact) on a hit.

Saxon · #2 June 28th, 2004, 06:29 AM

I do like the line for the spider riders of Machaka when they lose one eye, but are not totally blinded. “Has lost a bunch of eyes.” It is those little touches that make this game so wonderful.

Arralen · #3 June 28th, 2004, 07:57 AM

spiders' eyes
Actually, if the spider loses one eye, the line says "lost an eye". But as they have eight of them, they shurely could "lose of couple of" them before becoming blinded.
The cyclops has only one eye to lose...

blinding elephants
.. it might be pure coincidence, but I'm under the impression the flyers which attack with claws (hawks, harpies) go for the head first and have an increased chance to inflict the "lost an eye" affliction. After all, their overall damage and chance to inflict "critical" damage is rather low, but I think I observed an extraordinarily amount of "picked eyes" with Pangaean harpies.

But it could be wishful thinking as well ..

[ June 29, 2004, 04:32: Message edited by: Arralen ]

Daynarr · #4 June 28th, 2004, 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Arralen:
spiders' eyes
Actually, if the spider loses one eye, the line says "lost an eye". But as they have eight of them, they shurely could "lose of couple of" them before becoming blinded.
The cyclops has only one eye to lose...

If the spider has a rider (look at this, it rimes

) then all afflictions apply to rider - and rider has 2 eyes.
However if spider loses rider (no rime

) all afflictions are his own.

For example, if spider with rider

gets diseased he will slowly lose his hp until the rider dies. After that a spider will remain healthy (and no disease!).

Saxon · #5 June 29th, 2004, 01:29 AM

Hmm, I could be wrong, but I distinctly remember the “one eye missing” wound to give a unique and memorable line to the effect of “a few eyes missing.” The spider in question was busy getting sliced to pieces by my team of dedicated clockwork horrors and had recently lost his rider. I was curious why he was taking so long to die and remember thinking, “hmm, maybe they need to cut off all eight legs as well.” Rest assured, the legs were soon removed and Stinky, the Carrion Dragon, soon ruled all.

Ironhawk · #6 June 29th, 2004, 12:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Arralen:
.. it might be pure coincidence, but I'm under the impression the flyers which attack with claws (hawks, harpies) go for the head first and have an increased chance to inflict the "lost an eye" affliction. After all, they're overall damage and chance to inflict "critical" damage is rather low, I think I observed an extraordinarily amount of "picked eyes" with Pangaean harpies.

But it could be wishful thinking as well ..

I agree with Arrlen. I have no hard evidence but I've been playing Caelum a lot lately and had cause to get my black hawks into the fight with some frequency. Seems like they inflict the "lost an eye" wound more often than I would expect.

[ June 28, 2004, 23:12: Message edited by: Ironhawk ]

Norfleet · #7 June 29th, 2004, 08:04 AM

I think this is a myth. Lost eyes are one of the more common afflictions, regardless of what's inflicting them. Odds are generally pretty good that the first affliction a unit sustains will be "lost an eye".