Another quick on on astral Corruption... - Page 3

RadicalTurnip · #21 April 21st, 2010, 09:41 AM

Yeah, I was wondering if you could still forge blood items as well...

chrispedersen · #22 April 21st, 2010, 10:22 AM

Its pretty high... also horror marked units spawn bigger and tougher horrors with much lower levels of horrormarking.

Finally the effects of the horror dome become pretty brutal as well.

FAJ · #23 April 21st, 2010, 01:31 PM

So, spamming lesser horror on a province in which you know there is a big nasty, who has a minor horror-mark could produce much better effects than when not under AC?

About horror dome, can you cast it if you are under siege? Will horrors randomly attack both players mages under the dome? I would suspect it could be the last resort of a player under siege at his capital, after being mobbed for casting AC.

chrispedersen · #24 April 21st, 2010, 05:44 PM

I'm the only player I've ever seen use this tactic. I do so in a couple of ways.

1. chokehold provinces, especially chokehold provinces one removed from forts with an active patrol.

usually you want to be careful of unattended labs.. but you can cast the dome, and then destroy the lab, if you wish.

2. forts. Try this as pangea, with your pans stealthy.

finally there is one other very interesting use for the dome, useful for nations that have dominion kill skulpting capabilities such as arco, LA-Pythium, and Mictlan.

Build a lab.
Cast Horror Dome. With just enough blood for a short - medium duration. Start construction of castle.
surround your castle with heretics so no dominion will penetrate.
In a few turns, you will have the benefit of M3 without paying for it

After the dome expires, research your heart away.

Stavis_L · #25 April 21st, 2010, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by chrispedersen

finally there is one other very interesting use for the dome, useful for nations that have dominion kill skulpting capabilities such as arco, LA-Pythium, and Mictlan.

Build a lab.
Cast Horror Dome. With just enough blood for a short - medium duration. Start construction of castle.
surround your castle with heretics so no dominion will penetrate.
In a few turns, you will have the benefit of M3 without paying for it

After the dome expires, research your heart away.

So...just to be clear - are you saying that the horror dome increases magic scales in the province it's cast over? Or am I totally misreading you?

chrispedersen · #26 April 22nd, 2010, 02:19 AM

yes. although its % and I don't know what the % is.

vfb · #27 April 22nd, 2010, 02:51 AM

Chris, if you leave the dome up, how do you prevent the mages researching in the domed province from being eaten by horrors? If you let the dome expire, how do you prevent the magic scale in the province from reverting to your dominion scale? If you do not have positive dominion in the province, your researchers will not get positive benefit from any scale.

vfb · #28 April 22nd, 2010, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by FAJ

So, spamming lesser horror on a province in which you know there is a big nasty, who has a minor horror-mark could produce much better effects than when not under AC?

I've always found it more effective (and easier) to spam a bunch of lesser horrors rather than a few horrors, even when AC is not up. I think 1 out of 3 or 4 gets upgraded to a regular horror under AC.

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About horror dome, can you cast it if you are under siege? Will horrors randomly attack both players mages under the dome? I would suspect it could be the last resort of a player under siege at his capital, after being mobbed for casting AC.

I had this cast on me while I was sieging an Aby cap. I didn't get attacked at all before storming. The chance per turn must be pretty low (except eventually you'll get marked inside the dome, and then your chance of getting attacked goes up IIRC.) Its best effect is to feeblemind enemies casting remote spells on your province. Just don't accidentally try to teleport into your castle.

lch · #29 April 22nd, 2010, 03:05 AM

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Originally Posted by chrispedersen

yes. although its % and I don't know what the % is.

I didn't notice that myself. I can't confirm the numbers, but there's a percentage on the Dom3Wiki article on the Dome of Corruption.

thunderbird · #30 April 27th, 2010, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by FAJ

So, spamming lesser horror on a province in which you know there is a big nasty, who has a minor horror-mark could produce much better effects than when not under AC?

About horror dome, can you cast it if you are under siege? Will horrors randomly attack both players mages under the dome? I would suspect it could be the last resort of a player under siege at his capital, after being mobbed for casting AC.

Faj,

I can confirm that I am the recipient of several larger horror's the last couple of turns that you targeted me. I assumed you were able to send those, but they might have been a result of my horror marked leaders?