amphiptere plus ma man's units

[Jarkko]

Originally Posted by earcaraxe

How do u use the crones with bots for rain of stones? give them one more e gems and hope the AI will use it to add 1 to the level of the crone in E? the other thing: is theere any way to avoid it being a suicide mission for the crone? wouldnt only one RoS kill her for sure? would air shield or a shield or some armor save her?

Air shield gives 80% protection against missiles. Slap on a lucky ring, and 50% of the missiles that get through are avoided. Black Steel helmet gives prot 20 to head, which should be enough to stop the few raining stones getting through the avoidances

E1A1 Crones with earth boots and scripted with Summon Earthpower become E3A1

[Kadelake]

I agree that helmets don't seem help much. The high fatigue gained by casting rain of stones guaranties a critical hit. Maybe mass protection + a good helmet is enough?

RoS doesn't count as a magic attack so the best protection is mistform. If you can spare one turn, have the crone cast mistform and then rain of stones. Fog warriors is great but kind of hard to get for Man since it needs A4. Once you've got access to fog warriors it's no problem dropping several RoS the first turn of combat
If you have access to a crystal shield, give it to an A3 mage. Just make sure fog warriors goes of before RoS; I've just managed to kill 4 important mages by messing up the casting order.

Originally Posted by Jarkko

E1A1 Crones with earth boots and scripted with Summon Earthpower become E3A1

Crones come with at least A2. Recruitable, teleporting rain of stones casters