[SPOILERS] Lurker Thread: Where lurkers pretend they could have done better

[NobleHelium]

How did only one person pick Perpentach? That's kind of ridiculous.

Anyway I would have gone with Ice/Mind/Enchantment. Mind is absolutely huge for Inspiration, I don't think anyone without it is going to be able to compete economywise unless starts are not balanced. A philosophical leader would be good with it, obviously. I probably would have gone with Perpentach (Arcane to start + Creative, plus you might be able to take another spell before switching out of Charismatic) or Cardith Lorda (Adaptive with Philosophical to start). Cardith is probably the safer pick due to the much stronger early game ability to fend off rushes from more aggressive builds, but Perpentach is likely stronger later for obvious reasons. Unless you get stuck with crap traits for the rest of the game, but I'd be happy to roll the dice in a game of FFH. Cassiel is also Philosophical, obviously, but later on PHI is not really that strong, and Agnostic really hurts in my opinion (I love the religions anyway).

I pick Ice and Enchantment to go with Mind because Enchantment gives much of the fighting ability other choices give without needing your adept to move away from the capital, thus keeping Inspiration up. And obviously since he's not being moved he's far less likely to die. Ice is mostly for late game combination with Enchant III (I bet Bob would be very inclined to rush someone with this combination, LOL), as well as early game rush defense.

[Krill]

Dain/Amurites/ice/water/mind

[uberfish]

Can't see myself taking something other than Mind (for inspiration) + Ice (to stop any silly early rushes). Probably metamagic as 3rd if I wasn't going with Dain, just to insta scout everything round the capital.

Apart from Selrahc, no one has picked anything surprising. Whoever said this game setup idea would work better as a SP adventure is probably right.

[namad]

which modmod will pbem ffh XII use? are you guys all using basic ffh o ? or are you using one of the modmods which tries to fix some bugs? or one of the ones that adds new features?

[Katon]

All the PBEMs so far have just used the core mod, updated to the most recent patch; that seems likely to continue in the near future, although Sareln is working on a mod to balance FFH a bit which will probably be tried in a PBEM or two once it's done.

[Mardoc]

So, with 3 fire adepts running around from T0, how long do you think it'll take to burn out all the jungle on the map? Personally, I don't think it'll happen at all, I think the game will end before the jungle is fully cleared - or if it does manage to be fully cleared, it'll be workers with axes that do it. Even with 3 relentless firestarters, fire is just too slow.

In my opinion, the only fire that makes any sense is the elves, since they value forests more and are likely to take a long time to get to Bronze Working.

[DaveV]

So, with 3 fire adepts running around from T0, how long do you think it'll take to burn out all the jungle on the map? Personally, I don't think it'll happen at all, I think the game will end before the jungle is fully cleared - or if it does manage to be fully cleared, it'll be workers with axes that do it. Even with 3 relentless firestarters, fire is just too slow.

In my opinion, the only fire that makes any sense is the elves, since they value forests more and are likely to take a long time to get to Bronze Working.

One of my first games in FfH had me starting next door to the Sheaim. Their flaming zombies lit up a bunch of forests, and the fires spread across the world pretty quickly.

The odds of any particular smoke turning into fire, or fire spreading, is pretty low. But if you put a bunch of them on the map, the overall odds go up to a point where mass de-junglefication is pretty likely.

What would be really fun would be if the Mistform event triggers.

[Ichabod]

Is that event still in the game?

I wish I had some kind of event list from FfH, but I was never able to find one...

[Mist]

Yes it is. Unfortunately.

[Ichabod]

Yes it is. Unfortunately.

Oh boy!

This will be fun...


...for the lurkers, at least !