Best Unit in the Game... Any thoughts?

[NTJedi]

Kristoffer O said:
> It's a strong unit yet way way over priced and never worth considering in a multiplayer game.

Of course he is! He grows like a sponge! Cover the world in sponges and you will rule th galaxy

Edit: DOn't forget to feed him

Even after being fully stuffed with corpses he has multiple weaknesses for costing 50 astral ! First only one can exist on the map so any opponent wanting to destroy all your hard work just has to summon one of them. Second this creature will go beserk and leave you... possibly return to attack you. For a few more astral gems I can summon a army of ether warriors and an ether lord commander which could slice and dice three eater of the deads in battle.
It's a strong unit, but if you check the multiplayer games... it's never casted.

[Kristoffer O]

> First only one can exist on the map

Not after he has broken free.

Of course it is not casted! People like control over things

[NTJedi]

Kristoffer O said:

Of course it is not casted! People like control over things

Well it's more with the cost of the spell... 50 astral gems is a very high price for a single unit which comes from a high research level.

[Evilhomer]

Its actually a combination of the high cost, rather low survivability (low defense+low protection) and the fact you lose control over it.

[Kristoffer O]

>50 astral gems is a very high price for a single unit

Actually it's a low price for freeing the fettered one and unleash him upon the world. The fact that his physical powers are limited by time, space and the newly dead doesn't make the powers of his fetters less strong.

[NTJedi]

Kristoffer O said:
>50 astral gems is a very high price for a single unit

Actually it's a low price for freeing the fettered one and unleash him upon the world. The fact that his physical powers are limited by time, space and the newly dead doesn't make the powers of his fetters less strong.

Actually it's a high price when you can alchemize the gems for 25 of another type and then use those 25 gems to summon units/commanders which can kill the beast.

[HoneyBadger]

What would be great is if, when the Eater of the Dead wanders off, there's a chance he decides *he* is a god, he becomes the Pretender of a nation of his own misbegotten, mutant children-by mating/raping various furry forest critters, the dead, MA Ulm, etc, and the Eaters of the Dead nation showed up on your doorstep.

Maybe-with multiple castings-even more than one.

And to whomever questions the existence of mighty Cthulhu-well, have you ever Wished for him?

well, have you?!?

I THOUGHT NOT!

Muahahahahaha!

[ologm]

A eater of the dead should spawn more eaters of the dead once it grows to a certain size. Attack of the blobs

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Agartha can get a 300+ hitpoint commander, by prophetizing a Marble Oracle which you must admit, is somewhat insane, considering thats more than most pretenders.

I'm hoping to figure out a working astral pretender build, so I can try a Juggernaut with the Golem Cult bonus.

[Gandalf Parker]

I had an eater of the dead show up on one of my chaoticised maps. I loved it. As Pangaea I would rush a couple of Pans over there to follow it around. Every time it cleared a province, my hidden pan would toss a couple of maenads and take ownership. Since the pans stayed hidden they were not in danger from the eater.