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roy-algriffin
Supreme Hero
Chocolate ice cream zealot
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posted October 26, 2007 08:20 AM |
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So far finished the necropolis campagin
First level was fun to test around with
Second was a bit boring and long
third was nice . Feels more like a rush map then any of the rest
Fourth is pretty good. Still slow though and it took me a lot of time to move around doing nearly nothing
Fifth was great! Nice mix of speedy attacking and epic battles! Awesome ending battle too. How the avatar of death and summon phenoix with Arcane armour on both is so grand!
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WarLore
Famous Hero
servant of urgash
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posted October 26, 2007 10:25 AM |
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Edited by WarLore at 10:26, 26 Oct 2007.
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i am in first mission of academy campaign then i released that,zehir sounds fag 
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WarLore
Famous Hero
servant of urgash
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posted October 26, 2007 10:30 AM |
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I don't know,the Ghost Dragon is kind of sucky i prefer the Spectral with the new Death Stare.This ability is great by the way with banshee howl and some artifacts is quite good combination.
yep,but i take ghost dragons because their attack decreases luck by enemy,AI hero's have always more than +2 luck not lesser than +2 and big hero's have luck about +5 or +6 and banshee howl decreases it by 2 or 1
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emilsn
Legendary Hero
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posted October 26, 2007 02:07 PM |
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 26, 2007 02:18 PM |
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I finished the game before month 4 maybe that's why I never got it. tell you what, I did not even have to get arcane omniscience I'll post a replay.
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Maurice
Hero of Order
Part of the furniture
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posted October 26, 2007 02:36 PM |
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You got it because you had over 1 million goldpieces. I've checked the script, the amount of gold is the determinant in that. It spawns when Zehir summons creatures (?) ... at least that's what the script makes me believe.
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emilsn
Legendary Hero
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posted October 26, 2007 05:16 PM |
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I did had a lot of money.. And well I ended the game at month 12  It took me a Year ingame time to kill biara And she did not move from her castle for 1 year (in game) Rather funny when you think about it
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phoenixreborn
Promising
Legendary Hero
Unicorn
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posted October 26, 2007 05:32 PM |
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I did had a lot of money.. And well I ended the game at month 12 It took me a Year ingame time to kill biara
I'll bet you enjoyed it
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And she did not move from her castle for 1 year (in game) Rather funny when you think about it
Well she is a succubus and there are plenty of horned demons and minotaur slaves around
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kraken
Famous Hero
I just love being elemental
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posted October 26, 2007 10:12 PM |
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Edited by kraken at 22:12, 26 Oct 2007.
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emilsn
Legendary Hero
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posted October 26, 2007 10:29 PM |
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You wait...
what do you guys think about this choice: Sky daughter or Earth daughter?
If you are against weak armies, Sky daughter's chain lightning takes to long be get before enemies are dead! And I just love Earth Daughtter when they reach rage lvl 2 and 3. They become crazy! Im starting to enjoy the earth daughters more.. What are you choice?
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Legendary_Hero
Known Hero
Stronghold Warchief
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posted October 26, 2007 10:38 PM |
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Well for sieges SKY DAUGHTERS and for open battles EARTH DAUGHTERS.
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roy-algriffin
Supreme Hero
Chocolate ice cream zealot
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posted October 26, 2007 10:50 PM |
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depends on three essential factors
number of enemies >4
memory of blood
Shamans can be boxed around and defended
if you can do all these sky daughters. be careful if you cant and take earth
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Minion
Legendary Hero
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posted October 26, 2007 11:25 PM |
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Edited by Minion at 23:26, 26 Oct 2007.
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Earth Daughters(ED) are melee fighters with casting abilities and Sky Daughters(SD) are casters with melee capability. Hmm. That Chain Lightning has potential if you use some Warcries for example to buff the rage up a few levels. That can do nasty damage. Unfortunately you might want Refined Mana perk for that, if you are not on a siege. That needs Shatter Light so its only an option now and then. The damage can go quickly to hundreds, like my 25 SD:s did 450 damage in total... would i have gotten them a rage level 2 they would have done 900 damage! Not bad  By rage level 3 the enemy would be seriously dead, after taking a 1800 damage Chain Lightning.
ED:s are very good at melee, I am constantly surprised at their performance. The trick here is rage again, because they can gather it even without moving either by casting spells or even better - sacrificing Goblins. Had I had 25 ED:s they will be doing over 200 damage to a target with equal defense, but considering the crazy attack of Barbarians it will be more likely over 300 damage. And there is the addition of Hexing Attack, which is very potent. Weakness and Slow being most common that I have seen. But on Expert level thay are DA BOMB. Suffering is the ultimate giving -12 to Attack.
After Rage level 1 she already has an initiative of 15! That means she is all around the battlefield just Hexing and Hexing
I really like both of them. Usually I go for ED because they are easier to use and can manage on their own. SD needs some protection as she is not that good in actual combat. But in need of more Ranged power, she is the one.
It is a shame that as neutrals SD:s are way easier than ED:s, because they cannot cast Chain Lightning. They should always have some Goblins with them. Now they are the easiest upgraded level 4 creatures there is to face.
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 26, 2007 11:58 PM |
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The stronghold AI seems retarded where skill are concerned. It moves pretty fast(broke phoenixes on disputed island at week 4, had few losses without warmachine aid) and builds fast(had bought all 7 tiers and centaurs/warriors upgraded) but its skill selection is weird. Heck it took shatter dark and shatter destructive vs sylvan. I suppose it's safe to assume it picks skills randomly as they come.
The other skills were defense->evasion and adv leadership which make some sense.
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Minion
Legendary Hero
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posted October 27, 2007 01:03 AM |
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Shatter Destructive is not stupid against Sylvan at all. You have annoying Druid Elders with lightning and Destructive is an option for the Hero too. I would want Barbarians taking Shatter dark more, but not against Sylvan... That is a huge waste. And not 2 Shatter skills...ever.
Yeah but overall I didn't assume that it would take different skills according to the enemy - neither does it react according to the enemy on the battlefield. Like vs. me when I'm playing a Wizard. I have practically half the troops he has, he has up to Untamed Cyclops - i do have Rakshasa Ksathris though. But the numbers are on his side. He has +100 Centaurs (upgraded, can't remember the name) so he decides to defend with his Cyclops, Wyverns, Executioners and Warriors... Duh. His ranged power is stronger, but... My god. It cannot count on its level 2 creatures!! Not with Orcs at least. And there I Fire Trapped the battlefield. Then my Djinns casted Confusion on the Centaurs, so the army marched forward. What a sight I even Summoned a Phoenix and Casted Blade Barrier to protect my shooters. But he did do well with having about 10 more attack than I have defense. - He killed all my Rakshasas, even the mighty Phoenix fell. The Untamed Cyclops made a short work of the entire Barrier...
But anyways, the point is that I won. With a very lousy army, and his hero was higher level than mine (14 vs. 17). Never should he defend with his army... he shouldn't give the Wizard time to make his spells.
From Skills he did have Shatter Light, which ain't bad, but well, it was quite bad cause I had no Light on my Wizard. It did prevent me from using Djinns buffs, or Archmages Rigteous Might/Cleansing so it wasn't completely lost.
Edit: I just counted for fun how beneficial it was to have advanced Shatter Destructive against Druids or Elder Druids. You always split the casters for maximal damage. I assume now that you have 16 Druid Elders, divided into 2 stacks so you have 8 and 8. A stack with Lighting Bolt will do 170 damage so they will do 340 in total. With Advanced Shatter destructive, they will do 220 damage total. That is 120 damage less. Without Shatter they will do over 50% more damage to you! So that is more than a good pick!
Had you had regular Druids instead – from 280 lightning damage to 187 damage. So the same applies.
Stone Spikes is cast initially without a mastery, so Advanced Shatter Destructive will make the spellpower 50% smaller. So in our case instead of 208 damage it will do 128 damage. Again a VERY noticeable difference. And note, you only need 2 levels for this effect, because expert Shatter merely affects level 5 spells.
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roy-algriffin
Supreme Hero
Chocolate ice cream zealot
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posted October 27, 2007 03:40 AM |
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AI is wierd for barbarians
I had about 200 warmongers and he had aout 200 sky daughters. he decided to haste them. Then he decided to cast divine guidance on them. Then haste. Then divine guidance. then haste until he ran out of mana from those 20 or so goblins he sacrificed..
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Mytical
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
Chaos seeking Harmony
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posted October 27, 2007 06:53 AM |
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Ok AI has been doing some weird things while I have been playing ToTE.
Attacking a full castle garrison with 1 unupgraded level 1 creature in their army..I had a full weeks worth of troops, the AI didn't even get to make a move before their creature was dead. Now if they had no town I could see it as a last ditch effort, but at the time they had 2 fully garrisoned towns that I hadn't taken yet.
The demons that can explode? Yeah they use the ability with absolutely nobody around them, enemy or friend. Just boom, does no damage to anybody and wastes one of their turns.
Trapped themselves on a small 'island' when they had been there multiple times before. I was chasing one of their heroes, who was faster then me. Instead of heading to the wide open road it took the path that lead to a dead end. I had trapped one of it's heroes there before, so it would have 'known' that that way was a dead end. I had it's town on the map also, and the open road led right to it. It was a strong enough army that if I had fought it in it's town I would have been hurting. As it was I survived with like 30 zombies. (was necro at the time). It had also came by the open road several times, so that would have been 'mapped' also.
Seen it have titan's defend on the first action they had. Nothing next to it to prevent it from shooting either. They also have used 11 Titans to target 1 lich, when I had 20 Ghost Dragons...
Weird stuff going on.
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Corpfox
Tavern Dweller
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posted October 27, 2007 08:16 AM |
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Edited by Corpfox at 08:21, 27 Oct 2007.
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Seen it have titan's defend on the first action they had. Nothing next to it to prevent it from shooting either. They also have used 11 Titans to target 1 lich, when I had 20 Ghost Dragons...
Weird stuff going on.
The Computers mostly attack your ranged units first, no matter if their creature are ranged or melee...
I used Retaliation Strike from a Haven hero and the computer would only attack the creature that had it...
Very odd...
And how, in a non-cheating way, can you get Basic Shout from the Barbs?
CelestialHeavens.com shows Basic Shout has a 2% chance of getting it and yet, I manage to get Basic Enlightment which also has a 2% chance...
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emilsn
Legendary Hero
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posted October 27, 2007 09:41 AM |
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Actully Shatter destrucktion is great, because you can get fiery wrath which is great buff to the orcs huge att. !
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Don't walk behind me; I may not
lead. Don't walk in front of me;
I may not follow. Just walk
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WarLore
Famous Hero
servant of urgash
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posted October 27, 2007 09:57 AM |
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Seen it have titan's defend on the first action they had. Nothing next to it to prevent it from shooting either. They also have used 11 Titans to target 1 lich, when I had 20 Ghost Dragons...
Weird stuff going on.
The Computers mostly attack your ranged units first, no matter if their creature are ranged or melee...
I used Retaliation Strike from a Haven hero and the computer would only attack the creature that had it...
Very odd...
And how, in a non-cheating way, can you get Basic Shout from the Barbs?
CelestialHeavens.com shows Basic Shout has a 2% chance of getting it and yet, I manage to get Basic Enlightment which also has a 2% chance...
yep,you have for my game expirience,i got it two times in four,also you can get it witch huts more likely than other skills
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