Hey Ermor here, I thought I would come in to correct a mistake here. Mind hunt does work on Vans, it's one of the few spells that actually affects stealthing units, I'll try to explain why. The state change to being stealthy takes effect right away, before anything else, so when the magic phase arrives, the units will already be stealthed. Now, most targeted rituals like seeking arrow or fire from afar won't affect units you can't see (stealthy Vans), teleportation will also not give you combat with the vans; Mind hunt on the other hand works on stealthy units, you can kill scouts with it, but most importantly you can kill elves. Since the magic phase comes before the movement phase, the elves will be stealthy but will still be in the province when you cast mind hunt. So yeah, getting to mind hunt was my initial research goal to help fight Helheim and other raiders (Caelum for example), since it's the only way implemented in the game to counter elves. unfortunately the war happened too soon, and I was really worried when I heard about the sages. Whenever I've played an elf nation, sages have been some of the most important boon I could get, you can give them a shademail and flying boots to stealthily follow your elves and makes them impossible to counter since the only counter is mind hunt and won't work anymore.

@sheepthief2785

4 жыл бұрын

there are other ways to counter elves. trample is the big one.

@Madhattersinjeans

4 жыл бұрын

I would think raiding their territory would be quite effective. Their elite units are very powerful but also very expensive. They can't defend everywhere at once either. And for the size of their territory they would likely struggle to answer a lot of threats at once. And if they do they might decide to dilute their larger stack of sacreds making them easier to kill. In battle spells that paralyse, hold and slow would help. Anything to stop them getting into combat where they put out the damage and give your mages more time to put effective spells into them. At this point though it's going to be a real challenge, they have a lot of support mages online and twiceborn on their undead commanders. They've been left alone too long to build up power. hinnom might have the best shot at fighting them but they're very slow so far at least. Will be interesting to see how things develop.

The stone bird is a must if you go for a repel build, though his attack is good it's still a bit low for that. Note that the 4 stone bird attacks can be used to repel enemy attacks. So stone birds are a really good option with high attack skill

@earthyring4393

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this knowledge, I would of never figured out all 4 attacks get a Repel. Stone Bird went up a tier or two in my mind now for Thug equipment.

I hope Atlantis puts some Armour on those Thugs, or their gonna just be donating magic items unless doing light raiding. When I started playing Dominions I did the same thing though, as I didnt realize Armour protection and spell protection were separate layers of defence.

@Madhattersinjeans

4 жыл бұрын

I watched some playthroughs before trying the game myself. So I dodged some of the usual issues people have with the game but even so. There's just so many darn spells out there and different kinds of units. I have doubts about Atlantis being able to do much. But they are learning from their mistakes. They are adding some equipment on their thugs but I don't think they're going to be anything more than a distraction for the most part. Despite their rather good roleplay messages.

For the bears!!! Long may they reign!!

12:20 It's actually No Da who got injured by the event; he is shrunk.