MP Guide to LA Ermor - The Ashen Empire - Page 4

Trumanator · #1 December 16th, 2009, 06:18 AM

Its debatable. Darkness makes your troops 10x as deadly pretty much, and I think Rigor mortis is also alt, and its a killer spell in itself. Of course, conj gets you all sorts of cool summons, and the well of misery is awesome. That said, Ermor isn't too good at forging, so thugs aren't something you'll do well with at first.

Squirrelloid · #2 December 16th, 2009, 06:33 AM

This guide's lack of listing for Lord of the Gates as a viable pretender saddens me.

fantasma · #3 December 16th, 2009, 06:52 AM

Well, moving your pretender to a lab to forge a few boosters is very well worth the effort, sooner or later. The thing about the rainbow is that it's there to open doors, not to do it all alone. With a few boosters other can take over the searching.

The most difficult thing is to get all the gems together in LA.

About communions, that was just for really big battles where you have to bring a couple elders anyways.

Agema · #4 December 16th, 2009, 09:41 PM

Rigor Mortis is an absolute killer. It's the perfect companion to spamming soulless and skeletons. Granted, you lose a ton of your chaff units anyway, but the enemy army rapidly grinds to a complete fatigue halt, and eventually your undead chew them up. He won't even get his mages out alive, because they'll be collapsed unconscious too.

Viajero · #5 December 17th, 2009, 04:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Agema

Rigor Mortis is an absolute killer. It's the perfect companion to spamming soulless and skeletons. Granted, you lose a ton of your chaff units anyway, but the enemy army rapidly grinds to a complete fatigue halt, and eventually your undead chew them up. He won't even get his mages out alive, because they'll be collapsed unconscious too.

Yes... never used it yet, but it seems also the perfect castle storming companion if you have mostly chaff undead and no serious thugs/SC with you.

Trumanator · #6 December 16th, 2009, 10:15 PM

Just don't combine rigor mortis w/your enemy's shark attack. You can ask Calahan how that turned out

SOOOO many sharks eating undead.

Sombre · #7 December 17th, 2009, 09:46 AM

The only tricky part of RM is making sure your own casters are all undead or have really, really nice reinvig. Beyond that it's really effective with the typical undead battle of attrition spells - skellyspam, darkness, wailing winds etc.

WraithLord · #8 December 17th, 2009, 11:14 AM

All that won't save you from solar brilliance, right?

Kuritza · #9 December 17th, 2009, 11:58 AM

No, but rain of stones, bone grinding etc on turn 1 probably will.

Sombre · #10 December 18th, 2009, 09:19 AM

Well I don't actually know how skellyspam from high reinvig commanders with RM up would work against solar brilliance. It seems like it might still work ok since the spam doesn't care if the caster is blind and the skeletons might not die quick enough to the solar brilliance to avoid the attrition caused to the other side - certainly they'll have to spend a long time out in the sun, so I guess a lot of them would be struck blind.