A Poisoner's Guide to LA Pythium

[DonCorazon]

Great guide IH.

Another tactic that works well with foul vapors and I inadvertently fell victim to is cursing your enemies. My pretender in Epotara was cursed when she teleported and inadvertently landed in front of a Pythium army. Foul vapors caused damage each round and the curse on my pretender resulted in her racking up a boatload of afflictions.

[Ironhawk]

Ah, yeah thats a good one! Particularly good against SCs. Tough to implement on a larger scale but its something to think about earlier on when your Serpent Priest commander of that army doesnt have a lot of spells to pick from.

[NTJedi]

Unfortunately many SC's have immunity to poison by default such as most undead (WraithLords, Tartarians, etc.,) and most constructs (Golems, Statues, etc.,). Out of all the resistances it's one of the most common to see. Several items also provide ways of getting poison immunity.

[Ironhawk]

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Oh wait, NT were you talking specifically about the curse-poison combo?
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Thats true NT, but the objective of the poison army is to wipe out regular troops in the early-mid stages of the game. After that its just a powerful tool in the box of strategies available to you later on. But you shouldnt think that a Hydra-poison army is particular vulernable to SCs. First of all, by the same token you can deploy all your own undead thugs/SCs with that army without any fear which basically balances things out. And even that aside, Hydra's are surprisingly tough against SCs. They have a ton of attacks to reduce defense and thier hits are pretty hard as well. Not to mention that each head maxes out at 6hp damage so there is only so much damage an SC can do per turn.

I'd also considered writing an anti-SC segment in the late game part of the guide as well. But it was already so long I didnt want to make it any bigger

[Twan]

Good guide.

Just one little error : "When you finally have time to research Alteration, you will also gain access to Will of the Fates and Antimagic"

Antimagic is in enchantment.

[Natpy]

Heliodromus can easy forge fetishes. And satyrs are good victims for this.

[NTJedi]

Ironhawk said:
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Oh wait, NT were you talking specifically about the curse-poison combo?
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Thats true NT, but the objective of the poison army is to wipe out regular troops in the early-mid stages of the game.

Yes I completely agree