Are Poison Aura Summons Worth It?

[SlipperyJim]

Tarrasques rock very hard indeed, but they're an extreme end-game ploy. By the time you can manage to get a decent team of Tarrasques into the field, the game is probably over....

That said, I had a blast with Team Tarrasque in a SP game a while ago. One GoR'ed Tarrasque who had been empowered to S4 was leading a strike force of more Tarrasques all over the map with judicious use of Gateway. Utterly inefficient, but very fun.

[Sombre]

I'd just like to point out that if you want to mix poison cloud troops with regular troops, you don't need poison res troops, you need poison /immune/ troops. Even poison res of 99 will do virtually nothing to prevent you getting crippled/killed/morale-tested-until-you-flee if you spend a few rounds fighting alongside a poison cloud unit.

Don't believe me? Try Ctis troops + poison slingers or bog beasts or poison cloud spells.

[VedalkenBear]

Just a quick point. Probably the best nation to do a poison summon strategy is the Serpent Cult of Pythium.

[KissBlade]

I use poison troops with undeads relatively often against basic infantry. It causes morale to scatter like wheat.

[sum1lost]

Poison barbed troops work well against blessed vans and most cavalry, as the poison damage will do serious damage to them- the hooves are length 0, and two attacks a turn causes the poison damage to rack up quickly.

[Sir_Dr_D]

Posion aura troops may act as a powerfull deterent. They may die easy, but any troops attacking them will die easy as well. If you have such troops in your army, it would make me much more hesitant to attack you.

[thejeff]

They can also work well as blockers for archers and/or mages.

With the poison troops in the center and the archers on the rear flanks, they avoid the poison clouds. If the fight lasts long enough for the archers to run out of arrows and charge into melee, you're in trouble, but if you're relying on archers and they run out of arrows you're in trouble anyways.