So since Dom 3 is being discussed

Akula · Post by **Akula** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:30 am

name_here wrote:Heh, land peoples and your manual site searching. R'leyh science sneers at walking.

Only because you suck at it.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:34 am

It's because they have no feet.

Akula · Post by **Akula** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:45 am

They have no mouths either; so technically, they aren't sneering at anything.

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:40 pm

turn sent

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 4:14 pm

Gileadite bows are amazing things. They outrange and outdamage pretty much anything in the game and show up on giants with full scale mail who can pretty much laugh off any return fire from any enemy in the game. A group of Gileadite Archers makes a strong rear to the army that can be augmented either with Amorites on hold + attack in the rear to intercept people slogging towards your archery ranks or can stand in front of a large number of indie shortbowmen. Since the Gileadite Archers are archers and larger and closer than the indies, they draw all fire, despite being almost impossible to kill with bows. The result is that you win archery duels, and if your Amorites can hold the line well enough to make it an Archery duel, you win.

It can be beaten of course, but not as simply as Bashanites, who lose to simple "this is a bunch of axemen" tactics.

-Username17

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 5:35 pm

Huh. I completely disregarded the archers because... well, to my eyes they looked like suck. Low accuracy, 1 map move, and 49 resources for a single bow.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 5:45 pm

angelfromanotherpin wrote:Huh. I completely disregarded the archers because... well, to my eyes they looked like suck. Low accuracy, 1 map move, and 49 resources for a single bow.

Range 50. Damage 17.

Protection 17. 35 hit points.

They suck ass in close combat (even if they do hit for 23 fucking points of damage - Size 4 and Attack Skill 9 means that they lose to barbarian indies). But they win archery duels against pretty much any unit that has ever existed.

-Username17

Orca · Post by **Orca** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:20 pm

Turn 25 sent.

It's a pain when your enemy has an ally with mages with time on their hands ...

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:24 pm

Isn't it just?

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:43 pm

Turn sent.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:13 am

Turn 26:
http://www.mediafire.com/?q77k2zn9ku7xflw

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:35 am

Man, until I started preparing for the invasion of Ermor I had no intrinsic grasp of how fucking much my armies and mages cost. I mean, I saw the numbers but didn't really internalize them.

On the bright side, Cthulhu moved in much the way that I'd hoped.

Akula · Post by **Akula** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:53 am

It looks like Ashdod learned about the 75% auto route this turn.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:54 am

Eh, the militia ablated the lance charge. It probably worked out for the best, they'd have eventually overrun the giants.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:04 am

name_here wrote:Man, until I started preparing for the invasion of Ermor I had no intrinsic grasp of how fucking much my armies and mages cost. I mean, I saw the numbers but didn't really internalize them.

On the bright side, Cthulhu moved in much the way that I'd hoped.

I am disappoint. You lost to PD in one province, and your assassin failed to take out a totally random thaumataug?

I am disapoint that my PD 30 (entirely from random events) province failed to do any real damage though.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:07 am

It was a totally random assassin who decided scripts are for pussies. I'd been expecting that, hence why I scripted him to charge after the first magic duel, in the vague hope of accomplishing something.

I will admit to no excuse for the PD bit. I think the 30PD province claimed about 20 lobo guards, but that might be another one.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:07 am

Yeah, that is the 'no real effect' one.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:13 am

So for someone in the know, do illithids count as 'archers' for scripting purposes?

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:16 am

I'm pretty sure they do.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:19 am

angelfromanotherpin wrote:Huh. I completely disregarded the archers because... well, to my eyes they looked like suck. Low accuracy, 1 map move, and 49 resources for a single bow.

They are actually pretty bad (sure they do a stack of damage but they never hit) but their damage absorbing capacity is unrivalled on a unit that comes in as an 'archer' for scripting purposes.

The stand one bowmen off to the side infront of a huge mass of indie archers tactic is pretty annoying.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:20 am

Also, my prohpet is in my doom stack for fast blessing capability so.. good luck with that second prophet thing.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:21 am

I expect plenty of "luck" in that regard. Admittedly, not everything will likely go according to plan.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:26 am

Turn sent.

K · Post by K » Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:32 am

In on 26.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:44 am

Turn sent.