[Eitb spoilers] Miguelito's fortune hangs on a thread

[mackoti]

How fast/slow could the golem being repaired during your World Spell activation ?

Man like never..., do they heal from priests/thane?

[DaveV]

Nominal healing is:

5% enemy territory
10% neutral territory
20% in your own cities if not in resistance
15% in your territory otherwise

Golems are -5% neutral and -10% friendly, so change the above to 5/5/10/5. I believe they should still receive the boost from Medic promotions, Courage, etc.

[DaveV]

@Miguelito: for future turns, it would be a good idea to cast Regeneration so you can heal up from any fireball strikes on his turn.

[mackoti]

@Miguelito: for future turns, it would be a good idea to cast Regeneration so you can heal up from any fireball strikes on his turn.

I think just damaged units gets regeneration and for 14 turns will be no fireball.

[DaveV]

Regeneration is cleared at beginning of turn for units that aren't damaged; I've used it before to soak damage dealt on the enemy turn.

Good point about the fireballs, though.

[Miguelito]

So, last turn I had a little idea and offered Q either metamagic or body mana for air. He responded ideally, rejecting the trade (so Auror on his turn wouldn't see it) and sending back air mana as a gift. heeeeheeee.

For those out of the loop, air mana enables a wizard spell, Maelstrom, which does collateral damage to every single unit 2 tiles from the caster. That is, an unlimited number of units. And it's not light damage; 2 casts were enough so no following fireball would even cause collateral. FFH is a crazy affair.



The results are devestating for Auror.

I think the correct thing to do is punch right into the core now and to leave the jungle aside before he can set up a stack of chariots and catapults; of course those are still dangerous. And we don't have that many units. But for starters, Belegost can fall next turn, and would provide our swords with iron.

Other stuff that can go wrong now:

• Q betraying us in turn, riding a mounted stack into us while we are in Auror territory. At least no Worldspell for him, but it's really hard to watch out for 4 move units even with floating eyes.
  
• Us overstretching / overcommitting in Auror land and being insufficiently prepared for when coldrain comes for revenge in 6 turns; that is just an issue of self control
  
• Getting hammered in Auror territory by cats and chariots because we become overconfident
  

Fwiw, my impostor syndrome is going strong. I really feel like I have played a terrible game, 2 great scientists are no good excuse for ending up dead last in all relevant demos, and I didn't even know what I did so very wrong. Meanwhile Auror appeared to have played near flawlessly, yet here we are...

[xist10]

[DaveV]

I agree with going for evisceration. Did you clean up in the west, as it appears?

Too bad you killed his heroes with Hosts, it would have been nice to have the extra XP on permanent units. But it's hard to complain about the results.

Don't forget to pick up the pieces of Barnaxus and send them somewhere safe, so he can't re-summon his hero.

Edit: oops, looks like you killed Bambur with a mage. Huzzah.

[Ginger*]

Fwiw, my impostor syndrome is going strong. I really feel like I have played a terrible game, 2 great scientists are no good excuse for ending up dead last in all relevant demos, and I didn't even know what I did so very wrong. Meanwhile Auror appeared to have played near flawlessly, yet here we are...

Whenever I get away with cheating death in a game, I can't help but get this running through my head 

 The bigger the swindle, the better the high

[DaveV]

FfH is an unforgiving game. Stack wipes happen all the time. Auro still has a good chunk of territory, though, and a big tech lead. If anyone is going to salvage something from this fiasco, it would be him.

In other words, he's still dangerous.