MP: Morla MA noob game (running)

[TimpaMan]

The Nation of Man is soon becoming too powerful for anyone to stop him. I am the only one fighting him at the moment, and as soon as I collapse (which is eventually going to happen), he well devour my realm as full, and become too big for any1 to really challenge him anymore. So unless you other players dont want to grant him the "free win" card, exploit the moment now to attack him, while he has major forces tied to my doorstep at south. Ill be able to hold him here for a turn or two, but soon the window will be closed as I collapse... Take your advantage now on other fronts !!!

Brave men of Marignon fight until the last breath!

TimpaMan

[Immaculate]

Interesting Tid-bits of news from around the world. I really like hearing it,


“The Pythium Senate offers a proclomation,

We of Pythia have long been at war with the crunchy spiders of Machaka. They have witnessed, time and time again, the glory that is the hydra parade and though they often try to reroute our parade through side-streets and alleys with their riot-police and tear-gas, the parade’s pomp and splendor will not be denied.”


For Pythia and Maraka, its been pretty much back and forth with no major gains by either party yet. We’ve been fighting over the same 3-4 provinces for about 7-8 turns. So far its only making everyone else stronger.

[Immaculate]

Yeah, Machaka assassinated one of my casters. The spell he cast (and was scripted to cast) before he was slain? communion slave!

Yeah, doesn't help you against an assassin with a bane blade much does it?

Oh well- makes assassins actually somewhat viable- otherwise they would completely suck.

[Immaculate]

How do bodyguards work?

[SpaceViking21]

Originally Posted by Immaculate

How do bodyguards work?

If you assign troops to "guard commander", then they will be present during assassination attempts. However, only 5 at a time can act as bodyguards.

[triqui]

Originally Posted by SpaceViking21

If you assign troops to "guard commander", then they will be present during assassination attempts. However, only 5 at a time can act as bodyguards.

This is the best solution, yep.


Vineshield (or any protection actually) won't really work. In an assasination, once the assassin start to create 1 minion per turn (skellies or imps), the victim is defenceless unless it can:
1) fly
2) kill more than one skellie per turn and still move (quicken self for example).

Every single turn, one skellie is built. Once you are "grab" in combat, your only action is to attack. You attack one of the skellies and there are 2 options:
1) you kill the skellie, so you are grab by the next one in the queue
2) you don't kill the skellie, so right now there are 2 skellies in the queue, you can't kill them faster than they produce, and you will eventually go down. At the very least, you will fail morale sooner or later (fleeing from assasination means death), while skellies are unroutable.

The easy counter is to put bodyguards. While one of the body guards kill the skellie, the main character advance (or the other way: the character kill and the guard advance). The assasins aren't nothing to write home about stat wise (the human ones at least), so pretty much any soldier would kill him.

But they are damn cheap, and a cool tool to try here and there. They aren't the ultimate weapon, but they do their tricks.

[Olm]

Originally Posted by triqui

Vineshield (or any protection actually) won't really work. In an assasination, once the assassin start to create 1 minion per turn (skellies or imps), the victim is defenceless unless it can:
1) fly
2) kill more than one skellie per turn and still move (quicken self for example).

Well the shield will hold the skellies, the brand will wipe one square (=3 skellies).
I'd bet it would work.

[Olm]

Originally Posted by SpaceViking21

If you assign troops to "guard commander", then they will be present during assassination attempts. However, only 5 at a time can act as bodyguards.

Unless you use a ring of warning, then its 10 bodyguards.
But 5 Knights of Avalon or Wardens of Avalon would make a short story of that skellyspam.

[triqui]

Originally Posted by Olm

Unless you use a ring of warning, then its 10 bodyguards.
But 5 Knights of Avalon or Wardens of Avalon would make a short story of that skellyspam.

LOL :P
5 guys with clubs will beat the crap of that skelliespam :P

[triqui]

the brand alone is enough to win, I think. The Vine Shield won't add much (in this very specific situation. It's a wonderful item, no doubt)

I made some test before making the attempt, anything that can kill 2 skellies in a round will defeat them. That includes a werewolf with 2 claw attacks: eventually will find a spot to advance a couple steps, until he has the chance to put his claws into the poor assasin.

However, anything not able to kill at least 2 skellies a turn (or kill one and advance), is pretty much doomed. And that includes some (few) SC Pretener chasis...