Some joy with Mictlan

[PvK]

Seemed like all my Mictlani commanders were able to lead the devils around, but maybe I wasn't paying enough attention.

How often do horror marks generate a spontaneous horror attack?

Is there a good way to protect against those?

PvK

[Truper]

Horror Marks don't, so far as I know, generate spontaneous Horror attacks. But if a Horror gets called/sent, you can guess where it will head 1st

[ January 10, 2004, 03:41: Message edited by: Truper ]

[apoger]

>How often do horror marks generate a spontaneous horror attack?

During battle I have only seen it when using the spell Hellpower.

As an "assassination" type attack between turns, the horrors strike pretty rarely. I'd bet it's somewhere around a 5% chance for each marked character.

[Bowlingballhead]

Yeah. They will show up spontaneously as between-turn events, and attack a specific horror-marked character. Generally lesser horrors, but it doesn't matter much. No matter who you are, you're history. You've got to be a real monster to survive a horror attack. You've got to be really tough to survive one round of a horror attack.

[PvK]

When the horror attacks, is it an assassination against the one target and his bodyguards, or against the whole province?

If against the province, and there is a castle with some patrollers and some defenders, who gets attacked?

I was wrong about Mictlani units being able to all lead devils - it's only those with blood who can lead the devils, presumably because the blood gives them some undead leadership.

PvK

P.S./edit: Er, actually, it looks like the devils require magical unit leadership, not undead leadership.

[ January 10, 2004, 07:10: Message edited by: PvK ]

[PvK]

Originally posted by PvK:
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I got my main conventional army cut off and starving though. Somehow, my heroic commander became diseased - looks like maybe they are not immune when their army starves. Contagion from hunger-sick troops?
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Aha - I think I figured this out. C'tis must be the Miasma flavor in this game - egad, that's nasty. I just got my prophet diseased by them. Grr. Miasma C'tis must be destroyed!

PvK

[Taqwus]

Horrors pick on just the commander (guards too?), not the whole army, unless it's due to something else like a "Send Horror" spell.
Certain items seem to generate more/nastier horrors than others. Contracts are fairly mild, Gift of Kurgi seems pretty bad, and from the description, the Forbidden Light should be _very_ bad.