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Old March 20th, 2012, 06:47 PM
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Default Huh ? Horror Mark targetting ?

Im kinda puzzled here. Huge fortress battle, i got 200 size 2 guys and a mother of nature god.
Defender has a bunch of lizards and a half a douzen abyssian demonbreds. Breds are apparently scripted to 5x Horror Mark.
Now, i would except the Breds to randomly hand out horror marks. Instead, what happens is that for 5 rounds, all demonbreds horrormark the mother of nature ?
wtf ?
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Default Re: Huh ? Horror Mark targetting ?

Most single target spells prefer to target the largest (size & hp) enemy.

Probably good strategy, in this case. Horror marking won't win the battle, unless you're also spamming horrors. A bunch of single horror marked troops aren't really a big deal. A single heavily marked god is probably permanently dead very shortly.
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Old March 20th, 2012, 11:16 PM
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Just gotta love horror mark followed by Hell Power...



It's just so wrong...

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Default Re: Huh ? Horror Mark targetting ?

There were no demonbreds, just lizard-shamans and some mercenaries.
Shaman's script: slave, horror mark x 4

Most spells with AoE 1 person tend to hit the largest creature (your pretender). And heavily horror-marked pretender is doomed to meet Doom-horrors.

I have a game where my God is constantly duelling Eater of Heroes.
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Default Re: Huh ? Horror Mark targetting ?

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I have a game where my God is constantly duelling Eater of Heroes.
Are you implying that your god usually wins these duels? Because that is impressive.
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Default Re: Huh ? Horror Mark targetting ?

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Im kinda puzzled here. Huge fortress battle, i got 200 size 2 guys and a mother of nature god.
Defender has a bunch of lizards and a half a douzen abyssian demonbreds. Breds are apparently scripted to 5x Horror Mark.
Now, i would except the Breds to randomly hand out horror marks. Instead, what happens is that for 5 rounds, all demonbreds horrormark the mother of nature ?
wtf ?
Largest size creatures are always targeted on the battlefield. If you want to help protect her from horrormarks then walk into battle with LOTS of size6 creatures... like elephants.
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Default Re: Huh ? Horror Mark targetting ?

Apparently its no big deal. I cant see how many of those markings actually hit her, but after 3 turns i got not a single horror attack, which leads me to believe that despite 25 attacks only 1 or 2 got through ?
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Every single one got through. It`s just that chance of attack is like 1% per mark.
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How would you know how many pierced the mothers MR ?
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Default Re: Huh ? Horror Mark targetting ?

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How would you know how many pierced the mothers MR?
Horror marks are not resisted by MR.
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