equipment configurations for supercombatants (SCs)

Vicious Love said:My favorite combo is more stylish than effective: Two daggers(Or Swords of Swiftness, if ambidextrous enough), Chi Boots, an Astral Serpent

Does an Astral Serpent really strike one more time for *every* other attack ? So a single werewolf (CoW) using the base claw/claw/bite routine could make 3 more poison attacks, making 6 armor negating damage and 9 poison damage every round ? A perfect counter against super-heavy units, or even against some SC (if you can bypass def) like Cyclops, Red Dragons, Manticores, etc. And the poison is cumulative, so even 1 hit will cause 30 pts damage in 10 turns (death poison) but 2 hits will cause 60 pts etc...
Does it work only in close combat or even for ranged attacks ? And for hooves (one more attack for cavalry) ?
TIA

[Boron]

Sunray_be said:

Does an Astral Serpent really strike one more time for *every* other attack ? So a single werewolf (CoW) using the base claw/claw/bite routine could make 3 more poison attacks, making 6 armor negating damage and 9 poison damage every round ? A perfect counter against super-heavy units, or even against some SC (if you can bypass def) like Cyclops, Red Dragons, Manticores, etc. And the poison is cumulative, so even 1 hit will cause 30 pts damage in 10 turns (death poison) but 2 hits will cause 60 pts etc...
Does it work only in close combat or even for ranged attacks ? And for hooves (one more attack for cavalry) ?
TIA

hm doesn't poison resistence negate this anyway ?
i personally think the misc spot is more important for e.g. burning pearl for +att + fire resistence and the amulet of antimagic .

my favourite quite cheap allrounder equipment is :
blood thorn + lucky coin , starshine skullcap , copper plate , boots of quickness , burning pearl + amulet of antimagic .

for nonflying units with water magic i replace the boots of quickness with flying boots like with icedevils / nievel jarls .

all in all those scs which have already flying + either fire or lighning resistence are extremely good like the arch devils and the airqueens or pretenders like virtue .
unfortunately airqueens have no footslot .
really hard though to find a favourite
i like airqueens , the arch demons , tartarians , the ice devils and the arch devils especially as highend scs
but i have no real favourite

Boron said:
hm doesn't poison resistence negate this anyway ?

Ooops I forgot about the Manticore, but some SC do not have poison resistance : think of Dragon, Cyclops, Devils etc...
A Red Dragon has only 11 def for exemple, so a puny werewolf with an astral serpent could perfectly make 3 hits in the first round, making 6 base damage... + 90 poison damage in the next 10 rounds (of course, the werewolf will probably not survive long, but he could kill a god !). Okay, I know, regeneration and poison protection is quite common for SC, but still, I had never realized how useful this item could be... in a given situation.
Cheers

[Graeme Dice]

Sunray_be said:
Does an Astral Serpent really strike one more time for *every* other attack ?

No. It strikes once a turn, or twice if the unit has quickness.