Re: Legends - how does summon earthforce

From: lache@convex.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Stefan Lache)

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 09:17:25 +0000

David I Resnick writes:

>Hi,

>In taking on big locations there seem to be several good options to
>reduce your casualties.

>1) Slot leaders with appropriate magic.
>2) Curse opposing leader down 100%
>3) Destroy the walls with summon earthforce.
>4) Have a MUCH bigger force than the place you are hitting.

>Are there any other basic ways to reduce your losses?

>I Have done #1, and am going too #2 soon.  How does summon earthforce
>work (i.e. how many spellpoints does it take to destroy each
>tower/wall size/whatever).

I think that #1 is the method of choice, at least as long as you have to deal
with relatively small numbers (up to 200) of relatively weak soldiers
(preferably weak races with MR 1).
#2 is not too effective with the new fortification rules: In NIC you
typically fight a leader with TAC 8 behind fortifications with TAC +36, so
even with a 95% curse (that is the maximum) you only weaken the opponent from
TAC 44 to TAC 36. Instead of cursing him you could also kidnap him most of
the time.It is much more important to bless yout own general 100%. I never
tried #3 (too expensive to do it regularly, I guess), and option #4 is not
always available.

Another important method is to sabotage the enemies' gatehouse with your
thief. Contrary to my expectations this did not completely nullify their
fortifications but at least they were considerably weakened (from +36 TAC/DF
down to about +15, though it was quite strange to fight a town with
gatehouse strength of -3 (!)).

>Any thoughts would be appreciated!
>--
>       David Resnick                           dresnick@athena.mit.edu

Ciao

Stefan

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Legends - how does summon earthforce
dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick)
Wed, 12 Jan 1994 20:36:39 +0000