Happiness in Darkness -An Argatha Ktonian Dead AAR

[Boron]

JaydedOne said:
Wow. Thanks for sharing those two new summons. They rule. But Endo hinted there was something beyond the sepulchrals and the umbrals... Any hints?

Yeah there are some more nation specific summons, but they all are only mediocre, i.e. they are not as powerful as the umbral.

I will show you all the missing new summons for Argatha LE now because i am not going to summon them in the game i think.

Iron Ancestor:
Ench 3, reanimate ancestor, 2e 2d, 5 earthgems


Iron Corpse:
Ench 3, iron corpse reanimation, E D, 3 corspes, 4 earthgems

At ench 6 there is ktonian legion, there you get 17 iron corpses for 20 earthgems, 2e 2d required to cast.

Hm good that you asked, i misremembered the tomb orcale:
Conj 5, awaken tomb oracle, 3D 2E, 30 deathgems.


They seem neat, i think i am summoning some. They should be useable as SCs, especially with my bless. Soul vortex, invulnerability, summon ep, maybe some cheap gear .

[Nerfix]

Goodnes, those Agaratans sure seem to pack a punch, especially TO and Umbrals. Pity about the battle though.

And the iron corpses seem pretty lame. Sepulchrals and Umbrals are cool though.

[DominionsFan]

Yeah the Tomb Oracle will be a very good unit.
The Iron Corpses are not that bad at all imho. Their protection is decent.

[Nerfix]

True, but they are kinda expensive for what they do for, hmmm, 1.25 gems per corpse?

Umbrals are interesting...I wonder if LA Agartha has sneaky commanders. A task force of even 10 Umbrals could be bad new for most provinces defence, especially if led by a stealthy mage.

Sepulchrals look also very good, but I do not know how much they cost. They are propably decent with Water 9 blessing, and Fire 9 will give them a powerful offensive edge. A W9/E4 Olm could be good for Agarta throughout the ages.

[DominionsFan]

Nerfix said:
True, but they are kinda expensive for what they do for, hmmm, 1.25 gems per corpse?

Umbrals are interesting...I wonder if LA Agartha has sneaky commanders. A task force of even 10 Umbrals could be bad new for most provinces defence, especially if led by a stealthy mage.

Sepulchrals look also very good, but I do not know how much they cost. They are propably decent with Water 9 blessing, and Fire 9 will give them a powerful offensive edge. A W9/E4 Olm could be good for Agarta throughout the ages.

Yep they are a bit expensive, however..
1. we gotta wait and see the magic gem income changes in Doms 3.
2. maybe higher luck will grant more summoned units? [example: high luck scale = 20 summoned units, instead of 17]
3. units like these can be handy in certain battles, regardless of their cost.

[Kristoffer O]

Boron, you have forgotten the flame corpses

[Nerfix]

Kristoffer O said:
Boron, you have forgotten the flame corpses

Does this sudden burst of posts mean the demo is done?

[Boron]

Kristoffer O said:
Boron, you have forgotten the flame corpses

I did leave them out on purpose, i'll post why on the beta forum .

[Boron]

Nerfix said:
True, but they are kinda expensive for what they do for, hmmm, 1.25 gems per corpse?

Umbrals are interesting...I wonder if LA Agartha has sneaky commanders. A task force of even 10 Umbrals could be bad new for most provinces defence, especially if led by a stealthy mage.

Sepulchrals look also very good, but I do not know how much they cost. They are propably decent with Water 9 blessing, and Fire 9 will give them a powerful offensive edge. A W9/E4 Olm could be good for Agarta throughout the ages.

The sepulchrals cost 4 deathgems.

Dominionsfan is correct i think, the iron corpses have a niche. But eventually they will get replaced by mechanical men. But since you need enchantment 3 for skelspam anyways, so in times of need in a blitz e.g. you could use them.
But they are very niche imho, the earth could also be invested in items e.g., like dwarfen hammers .

[Boron]

"Late winter in the year 3 of the ascension wars"

A rather uneventful turn.

Caelum did only attack the castle province where we expected them to attack and sieges it now with ca. 100 troops.
Noteworthy though is the 400 troop strong ermor army that showed up this turn on our border there.
Time for a "strategische Frontbegradigung". We have to give up that border province with Ermor since we cannot hold it with our insignificant border guard army there.
But fortunately the castle that is besieged by caelum currently is the only access for ermor from this route to our territory. Unfortunately this also means that we have to protect this castle at all costs because it is in a strategically so important chokepoint. These forces will be missed in offensive operations vs. caelum .


Old age starts to take it's toll btw. Our mages start getting afflictions. Only 1 of the loremasters got the diseased affliction, the others have only stuff like crippled,lost an arm and the like, so nothing lethal .

Kristoffer once said that death mages are less likely to get disease from old age, good that my necros all have death magic .

I lost my patience, no S2 mage has showed up. I will empower a necro with S1 now. We have almost researched thaumaturgy 6 for wither bones.
Now we aim for conjuration 7 for earth kings as next target.

"Early spring in the year 4 of the ascension wars"


Not much happened. Ermor did attack as expected, but the bulk of their force there are only ghuls+soulless.
My break seige attempt succeeded, and i am besieging a caelum castle. I decide to counterattack ermor on the other front a bit, the key of this minor attack is to reach the chokepoint mountains there and then dig in there (=build a castle and defend ^^). I use my last reserves on the caelum front for another army group, ca. 5 necros, 100 x-bows and 50 blindfighters.
Because caelum has castled every province on their border with me my progress there will be slow and painful, like medieval siege wars.

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/7958/4kz9.jpg
Army size report looks not too bad. We are ranked ca. as 5th place. 10% of those troops should be our umbrals though and 40% our ichtyids, which are only useful for underwater conquest and minor coast raiding, but for land warfare they have imho too bad stats. On land they are at best MI.
So all in all we are not as powerful as this graph suggests.
But we are in a comfortable position nontheless since we lead in provinces (unfortunately ).
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/6584/5cg8.jpg

I am only in this comfortable position though because i was so lucky to find the ichtyids in a province with many resources and my corner starting position. At least 33% of my empire are sea provinces!
So normally i would be in a very challenging game by now, but because of my huge luck it seems a bit too easy currently. If i would generate this game 10 times i think i would at maximum be as lucky as i am till now in this game in 1 of the 10 games.