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[Sombre]

Blood Curse is garbage. It very rarely seems to do anything and what it does do (curse and horror mark) doesn't amount to much. Even with apparently tailor made sacreds like the hundreds and hundreds of sacred freespawn chaff with Ulm Reborn in one game, it wasn't worth having.

[chrispedersen]

ya, even if it wasn't resistable, still wouldn't be worth having.

[JimMorrison]

Errr, if it was unresistable, you could completely ruin people in early-mid game.

[chrispedersen]

Nah Jim.

Look at the economics of it. One archer can kill several flagellants. Who really cares if he gets horrormarked in the process.

On the plus side, it would be fun to watch the SC's run away...

[Sombre]

Originally Posted by JimMorrison

Errr, if it was unresistable, you could completely ruin people in early-mid game.

How so? Why would you care that your random troops are cursed or horror marked? Clearly you'd rather they weren't, but considering your opponent took a poor 9 bless and got a load of their sacreds killed for it to happen,... not exactly scary. Like I said, I had the perfect troops for a B9 bless to be great when I was dueling llama with hundreds upon hundreds of penitent (improved freespawn flaggies) and it just sucked completely. He didn't even notice for a long time.

[archaeolept]

Originally Posted by JimMorrison

Errr, if it was unresistable, you could completely ruin people in early-mid game.

No. you might mess them up a bit while you were being destroyed, though

[JimMorrison]

Well I'm just not going to quote any of you then.

ru⋅in
   /ˈruɪn/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [roo-in] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
6. something that causes a downfall or destruction; blight: Alcohol was his ruin.
7. the downfall of a person; undoing: the ruin of Oedipus.
9. the act of causing destruction or a downfall.
11. to bring (a person, company, etc.) to financial ruin; bankrupt.
12. to injure (a thing) irretrievably.


Here's what I'm getting at. Unresistable Blood Curse. Awake SC pretender? Ruined. High cost, low number, high bless Sacreds? Ruined. Mages casting -any- kind of Evocations? Ruined.

You're going to pigeon-hole him into only using cheap disposable troops, and once you can do that, you are leading the dance. Even if you lose the war, he is the victor, but is still ruined.


I guess I seem to remember that someone said Horror Marked units aren't visited outside of combat - even so, it wouldn't take too much trickery to get his valuable commanders Marked.

[chrispedersen]

None of the above are ruined.

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