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Old January 9th, 2007, 03:24 PM
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Default Re: Counter to darkness spell?

Astral gives Mind Burn and Soul Slay, which don't require light and will bypass the mindless undead and force him to deploy other units to soak those spells, or else get his casters quickly wiped out.
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Old January 9th, 2007, 10:44 PM
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Default Re: Counter to darkness spell?

frozen heart and incinerate are also 100% hit spells. as well as disintegrate, I believe.

I'm not sure air or earth get one, but all the other paths have a spell like this, and incinerate even comes on a non-artifact magic item.
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Light, and it's counterpoint, is one new path of magic that I'm definitely requesting having added to the game. Unless you're working on your tan instead of sitting in front of a computer, I'm sure it's pretty obvious that there's a distinction between fire and light. Hopefully this and other matters can be explored and cleared up as the magic system grows.
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Yyyes, all we need are 'Whoracle casts Darkness' 'Burunduk casts Light' 'Whoracle casts Darkness' 'Burunduk casts Light' 'Whoracle casts Darkness' style deadlocks.
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Eagle Warriors set to attack rearmost?
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Default Re: Counter to darkness spell?

I didn't have any Eagle Warriors at the time- and not sure if they will be viable next time, since he has a staff of storms.

I did have a bunch of soul slays scripted for my Couatls, but they stopped doing those and went to Paralyze - I am not sure if it was because of the enemy Tartarians in the front lines, or becasue of the darkness/rigor mortis combo.

Magical assassinations have not worked out that well - the manifestations get killed by dust to dust/hand of death while they are chewing through the risen dead. The disease demon from blood was similarly in-effective; I dont have an earth mage up to earth attack yet, and I will not mind hunt due to the feeblemind affect.

But all is not lost! I have some ideas worked up (insert evil laughter here).

I will post the results of the battle here soon - anticipate the battle happening in the next couple days. My opponent is known the lurk here (Hi Unwise!!), so I wont state any plans I have.
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I did have a bunch of soul slays scripted for my Couatls, but they stopped doing those and went to Paralyze - I am not sure if it was because of the enemy Tartarians in the front lines, or becasue of the darkness/rigor mortis combo.
They did that because the AI thinks that paralyze is almost as good as soul slay, and it costs a Couatl less fatigue to cast it.
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Not spells "light" "darkness", B0rsuk, I'm talking a magical path that deals with visual effects. "Whoracle casts forest" "Burunduk casts trees"
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Some very basic ideas for a Light magic path off the top of my head: A spell that causes a small group of friendly troops to have the Fear ability (because it makes them appear frightening), a spell that grants darkvision, a spell that increases Precision, a ritual spell that summons an invisible scout, and another ritual that increases Growth. A magic item could be a cloak of invisibility, granting Stealth, while another could be a helmet that grants Darkvision. Light Bless would be increasing Stealth and then Awe.

Nothing too interesting in this list yet, but then I just started giving it some thought.
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Not spells "light" "darkness", B0rsuk, I'm talking a magical path that deals with visual effects. "Whoracle casts forest" "Burunduk casts trees"
I'll put it into my Cliche mod, I promise. As soon (if, actually) I complete my university assignment.
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