Countering Master Enslave...

[Coldshard]

MaxWilson said:
What do you mean by "too late to matter"? Are you talking about defender advantage, i.e. Master Enslave on round 1 before the attacker can cast any counterspells? That issue is not unique to Master Enslave.

It is not unique to master enslave, that is true, but the defender advantage is pretty big.. and is magnified the later in the game that it gets.

This is just repeating what others have said in this thread though I just wanted to reiterate it again as it is such an important point.

On a side note though, I am currently thinking that mitigation and countering are different. Countering would be stopping something while it is occuring or putting something in place that stops the effect entirely.. They do share some things in common but comes down to degree.. giving all of your troops poison resist 100% effectively counters foul vapors while giving them all 50% (or giving half of them 100%) mitigates the damage. I hope that I am explaining that well enough to get my point across!

[MaxWilson]

I think we've come to agreement on Master Enslave and the defender advantage. You are using the notion of "countermeasure" in a nonstandard way (e.g. ECM in the real world emphatically does NOT preclude the possibility of ECCM, nor is it guaranteed to be 100% effective), but it would probably be off-topic for me to pursue the point.

Hmmm, actually maybe that was my fault for saying "counter" for short, since "counter" actually doesn't have a recognized meaning except "a wooden object that you put things on." Countermeasure = "an opposing, offsetting, or retaliatory measure."

-Max