Guide MA Aby CBM Strategy

vfb · #1 January 15th, 2009, 09:55 AM

In another game I've lost about 5 mages to horrors. And I'm micro'ing there too, it's just a single month of marking that was enough to trigger it. Probably got about 30 lanterns, on around turn 40.

Toran, you're right Humanbreds can't fight very well at all. But they can be useful eating up hits and arrows on their shields. I bought the spear ones too, in hope that the parry would make them last longer. The Salamanders (and some fireballs/blasts) dish out the damage. Body Ethereal helps the Salamanders stay alive.

Toran · #2 January 15th, 2009, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by vfb

In another game I've lost about 5 mages to horrors. And I'm micro'ing there too, it's just a single month of marking that was enough to trigger it. Probably got about 30 lanterns, on around turn 40.

Well, that's why I'm asking - I have never seen it happen this bad, and was wondering if I was just lucky (or you unlucky...), or if was tied to Luck scales maybe, which I had as Luck3 in both my cases where I was using lanterns.

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Toran, you're right Humanbreds can't fight very well at all. But they can be useful eating up hits and arrows on their shields. I bought the spear ones too, in hope that the parry would make them last longer.

Ah, ok, same choice then. I find them surprisingly resilient against most enemies, they usually hold longer than the enemy probably prefers - they don't really hurt the enemy (unless fatigued from running into the shields/spears, or the Fire magic from behind), this is done mainly by the Fire mages with me. Where it definitely helps that the Humandbreds are 100% FR

But ethereal salamanders... yep, could be an idea. I know that one isn't exactly new, I just wasn't using it. Do you intermingle the Salamanders into the Humanbreds, or make them separate squads, consisting only of Salamanders?