How do we use Scouts?

[rabelais]

Originally posted by NTJedi:
One of my uses for scouts:

During Mid-Game... take a scout with two experience stars. Give him the eye of aiming, longbow of war, and some item which raises strength.


Now you've got one fellow shooting lots of arrows with precision of 17... and his strength adds to the damage.

Bow of war just fires a whole passel of normal arrows at once....

I think you mean thunder bow... the other bows are not affected by strength...

Does anyone else think damage of normal bows increasing with xp might be good? Doubt there's a hook in the code, but....


Rabe the Gratuitously Elliptical

[ February 27, 2004, 14:54: Message edited by: rabelais ]

[NTJedi]

Rabelais... your wrong.

Bow of War is directly affected by the strength of the unit as well. Go back and check.

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by NTJedi:
Bow of War is directly affected by the strength of the unit as well. Go back and check.

Not according to the item description.

[Mardagg]

Playing MP with score graphs disabled,scouts are even more,much more, important.
Its after all the only cheap possibility to gain the much needed imformations,like for example:
-which nations is about to win=near the victory condition
-how many provinces/castles/temples/... do your neigbours have
-...

Other than that ,I tend to use scouts also a lot to move items/gems to commanders,to transfer blood slaves or blood hunt,to watch enemy tactics during battles(you also gain knowledge of the spells the enemy already has researched) AND especially in the beginning of games to attack nearby provinces(order:retreat) to gain accurate information of the defense at once.

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:

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Originally posted by NTJedi:
Bow of War is directly affected by the strength of the unit as well. Go back and check.

Not according to the item description.

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You are also wrong Saber Cherry...
I just checked the description for the BOW OF WAR

Damage is : 10
( Strength of wielder not added )

That's directly from the game

[Arryn]

Originally posted by NTJedi:

quote:

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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:

quote:

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Originally posted by NTJedi:
Bow of War is directly affected by the strength of the unit as well. Go back and check.

Not according to the item description.

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You are also wrong Saber Cherry...
I just checked the description for the BOW OF WAR

Damage is : 10
( Strength of wielder not added )

That's directly from the game

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First you say that it *is* affected, then you quote from the game that it *isn't* ... which is precisely what Cherry said. So how is Cherry wrong? Please make up your mind. And please use a little more tact. Cherry doesn't deserve the highly confrontational tone of your post(s).

I'll go back to lurking again ...

NTJedi,

Do you even know what "Strength not added" means?

It means it's not affected by strength. Or more clearly, it means that it's not affected by strength. Which is the opposite of "Directly affected by strength".