Horror Stories

[Olive]

Talking about horrors, is horror seed supposed to be usefull ? I successfully implanted 2 units, hosted about 50 turns (test game) and... nothing seems to happen. Did I miss something ? Was I unlucky ?

[Olive]

Does someone use this spell ?

I thought that lots of horrors should attack the target provinces, but I saw none during the ~50 test turns. There were a lot of commanders in the "victim's" provinces and nobody moved during the 50 test turns. I just noticed a few commanders cursed. I'll give it another try.

Has someone already seen horrors with that spell ?

[Kristoffer O]

Horrors leave after battle. If an infested commander gave birth to a horror it would most likely kill a commander and then leave. A scout would proabably not see the battle as it is an assassination. Attack the province and see if there are any commanders left, or if the troops or commanders are horror marked. I don't remember exactly how the spell works.

It is generally a spell thet works behind the scenes, so it is probably difficult to say if it works as it should.

[jutetrea]

I was having problems getting viewable results as well in an SP game where i had tons of resources. Getting attacked by armies of 800 or so I was looking for any advantage.

I finally fought one of the 800 armies that I'd seeded a few times and had 4 or 5 horrors pop up during the battle. I'm not sure how the seeds themselves work/mature/spawn but I think i killed the seeded units and had em pop out horrors. Kind of neat, but without a way to track how it works its a bit underwhelming. It'd be nice if there was a message "xxx lost a commander/10 guys to one of your generated horrors".

[Olive]

Well, it was a game just to test the effects of horror seed in which I played both the caster of the spell and the victim . And after successfully having cast the spell in two castles, I hosted 50 times and checked each turn of the victim nation. A few commanders became cursed by events, but none was horror attacked.

But I didn't move any army, so no battle happened. Maybe is the spell generating horrors during battles only ?

Anyway, I've made a backup of the game before casting horror seed, I'll give it a new try.

[Shovah32]

Well it seems that, upon death, those who had been infected with parasitic horrors release them.

[Olive]

Checked that, yes, it worked. But they released the horror only when dying during a battle, not by disease.