Is it hopeless to continue this game ?

[Shovah32]

Adding it as i type?

[David3]

ps - If I wasn't playing a sea nation I'll be obliterated many turns ago ...

[Shovah32]

OK, if i were you i would focus on raiding ulms lightly/undefended provinces and setting taxes to 200% to cause unrest and get you some income. Secondly i would take your research off enchantment and aim for conjuration8 evocation 9(in the order conj6, evo7, conj7, evo9, conj8).
This will let you get monster fish, asp turtles and water queens(and earth kings if you teleport your pretender above ground) and will give you access to magma eruption, acid storm, ice strike, murdering winter, maelstrum and eventually niefel flames(although ulms cold resistance will reduce the effectiveness of murdering winter and niefel flames, making magma equption and ice strike attractive).

If i was you I would also make some thug basalt kings, they can buff with quickness, prot, reinvig and fireshield and have full slots
I would probably give them lucky pendant, robe of shadows, ring of regen, charcoal shield(fireshield cast by them is weak), sword of swiftness, boots of the messenger and a blacksteel helm. Script them with invunerability, summon earthpower, quickness, attack X, they would be lucky, ethereal, regenerating, untiring, fear causing, high prot, fast, 4 attack per turn kings

[Endoperez]

Check out Magma Eruption. It would be the more powerful AOE damage spell you're looking for.

[Shovah32]

As i said Ice strike(evo8) is also quite nice and not cold damage afaik.

[David3]

With what spell do I telleport the Monolith ?

"4 attack per turn kings" - you mean melee attack only or that they can cast 4 spells each turn ?

and .. by the time I do all you say, ulm will have 4000 - 5000 troops ... do you think I really have a chance if I do what you said ?



and thanks for your answer , I thought it was over and I didn't know what to do .. but I see that there allways a way out ..

it's like a chess game - a though chess game ...

ps. the setting for the computer is normal .

[David3]

What do you think about the idea for posting saved games ?
It's like a puzzle that you are been given and need to solve (for you) and something to learn from (for me - when I see your 1000 armies with your 30 greater mages and your 50 greater Items .. - that I only will be able to do in easy settings or in 6 months when I become more skilled player ..).
And just for fun to see what other players stratgies and so ..

[Shovah32]

You dont have to do everything i said, with a combination of your pretender, shamans and mages, with a little bit of alchemy you could be making one of the thug/SCs i mentioned per turn, if you could research magma eruption it would be a double bonus, with a script of invunerability, summon earthpower, quicken self, magma eruption, magma eruption, attack X. A group of 2 or 3 of those magma equption casters i can see killing a good bit over 200 men per battle (6 magma equptions and then 12 attacks per turn from a group of 3) and with support from an army... they could do wonderful things for you.

[Shovah32]

Posting saved games is good, it happens occasionally but what i would really like to see is the host of a MP game saving the turns and presenting them afterwards.

edit: to teleport the monolith use the spell teleport(2 astral pearls) and attached (hopefully) is a picture of a buffed, equiped king that i would like you to make(made in a single turn in your game)

[David3]

Thank you very much for your the help.

What is Attack X ?