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Old January 15th, 2009, 10:02 AM

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In another game I've lost about 5 mages to horrors. And I'm micro'ing there too, it's just a single month of marking that was enough to trigger it. Probably got about 30 lanterns, on around turn 40.
Well, that's why I'm asking - I have never seen it happen this bad, and was wondering if I was just lucky (or you unlucky...), or if was tied to Luck scales maybe, which I had as Luck3 in both my cases where I was using lanterns.

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Toran, you're right Humanbreds can't fight very well at all. But they can be useful eating up hits and arrows on their shields. I bought the spear ones too, in hope that the parry would make them last longer.
Ah, ok, same choice then. I find them surprisingly resilient against most enemies, they usually hold longer than the enemy probably prefers - they don't really hurt the enemy (unless fatigued from running into the shields/spears, or the Fire magic from behind), this is done mainly by the Fire mages with me. Where it definitely helps that the Humandbreds are 100% FR

But ethereal salamanders... yep, could be an idea. I know that one isn't exactly new, I just wasn't using it. Do you intermingle the Salamanders into the Humanbreds, or make them separate squads, consisting only of Salamanders?
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Separate squads of 6 Salamanders, each with its own Apprentice to Body Ethereal it. If I can't get enough Apprentices then just the front Salamander squads get Body Eth. Usually one or two Salamanders in the squad gets missed, because the Apprentice gets stuck in a square with one.

Everyone is on Hold & Attack Rear, the Humanbreds are right on the front line and the Salamanders are a few squares back, staggered where there are holes in your Humanbred line. I think if you have too many Humanbreds, the Salamanders won't get a chance to attack, because you won't have any holes in your front line for them to get through.
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