Devil Review

[Stormbinder]

Cainehill said:

On the other hand, I've spent about 12 castings of GR on one R'lyan army - mostly Vine Ogres, some Illithids, and about 10 mage/priest commanders. 12 GRs, as many as 4 at one time, plus two armies (including powerful artifacts in one), and I only now have it whittled down to killing strength where I can dispose of the artifacts in order to reforge them.

Heh. Ghost Riders are totally useless against good Illhids army. You are lucky that your opponent was likely not very expereinced with playing R'leh, or your GR attacks would be just waste of death gems. Remember, only GR's commanders are not mindless (and they don't have high enough MR and hitpoints), so Illhids can kill them very quickly, if there are enough if them and if his army would be positioned and scripted appropriately. He should get at least 3 full valleys of mindbalsting your undead commanders before engaging onto melee, 4 if you tried to attack him underwater. And by that time all your GR's cavalery would be disolving due to lack of undead leadership.

[Pickles]

Well I may not be very good at R'lyeh (it is my first MP game with them)& my scripting is indifferent but I get lots of savloes of mind bLast & have not killed the wraiths before all the riders were bashed by vine ogres.
Unless your army is small you only get 2 rounds before contact too.

Pickles

[Stormbinder]

Pickles said:
Well I may not be very good at R'lyeh (it is my first MP game with them)& my scripting is indifferent but I get lots of savloes of mind bLast & have not killed the wraiths before all the riders were bashed by vine ogres.
Unless your army is small you only get 2 rounds before contact too.

Pickles

If you position your illihids far in the back and in the coreners, you'll get your 3 rounds before serious mellee starts. And if your ogres killed all undead cavalery before the illhids killed whaiths, it means that you clearly didn't have enough illihids. There is not much point of mindbLasting if wraith lords are still Last to die in your battles against ghost riders. You might as well have no illidids at all if this is the case and spend the money on something else, since your ogres would tear the wraithlords appart anyway by themself with their strength and double attacks, once regular undead troops are gone.

[Chazar]

I've seen that battle. I didnt pay close attention to it and I am not sure to recall it correctly, but I think that the two Wraiths went below 10 hp pretty quickly and stayed at that level for a round. I guess you were just unlucky...