Upgrading Ents

[gregwak]

Not sure if this is the correct place to ask this so pardon me if it's not. Almost done with Orc's on the March. Just love the game. I'm going to go right into Legend when I'm done. One question. Trying to upgrade Ents into "old Ents" at an acadamy and I get the message "cannot, need race Elces" I have no idea what that means. Any help would be appreciated.

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by gregwak

Not sure if this is the correct place to ask this so pardon me if it's not. Almost done with Orc's on the March. Just love the game. I'm going to go right into Legend when I'm done. One question. Trying to upgrade Ents into "old Ents" at an acadamy and I get the message "cannot, need race Elces" I have no idea what that means. Any help would be appreciated.

You need enough trophies to learn how to upgrade the Elf race. When you go to the academy an option is "I want to learn how to upgrade other races".

You will also need the "I want to learn how ot upgrade to stronger troops" bit, which lets you train level 4 units into level 5 units.

[Kings Bounty Hunter]

Ancient ents must have high phys threshold?

Any good as a tank unit? tricky to ressurect I guess

oh and heal

[Zechnophobe]

Originally Posted by Kings Bounty Hunter

Ancient ents must have high phys threshold?

Any good as a tank unit? tricky to ressurect I guess

oh and heal

20% physical, I think. I believe can be rezzed via fauns and Demonologists. Tank... I'm not too convinced. You'd pretty much have to teleport them (like Giants). Maybe with the +1 speed boots, and Axel or something for another speed.

Man, I wish one of those plant items gave +1 speed to plants. That'd freaking rock.

[atlatea]

Well, you have the wrong way to go if you teleport your ent, i mean you played it wrong.

It works the other way around, draw your enemies to the ent.

With what? Simple, with target.

Ent main use is not only as a tank, but as interceptor, use your ent to intercept enemy melee/close range unit and tie them up to the ent via its roots, and your ranged unit/shooters can have a party (or parties). Short words: ent is shooters best friend. Another tricky use is for: halting something while you do other thing (example is divide and conquer strategy, another is delaying something while you do other thing which have higher priority or vice versa)

Don't forget to always bring faun and paladin for no loss. Ent and faun is compatible with paladin + the rest are elves army. Perhaps it is the best synergy in the game.

[Zechnophobe]

Originally Posted by atlatea

Well, you have the wrong way to go if you teleport your ent, i mean you played it wrong.

It works the other way around, draw your enemies to the ent.

With what? Simple, with target.

Ent main use is not only as a tank, but as interceptor, use your ent to intercept enemy melee/close range unit and tie them up to the ent via its roots, and your ranged unit/shooters can have a party (or parties). Short words: ent is shooters best friend. Another tricky use is for: halting something while you do other thing (example is divide and conquer strategy, another is delaying something while you do other thing which have higher priority or vice versa)

Don't forget to always bring faun and paladin for no loss. Ent and faun is compatible with paladin + the rest are elves army. Perhaps it is the best synergy in the game.

So, an Ancient Ent moves 1 square, can run once for two more, and has init 1. (I think that is the init). How exactly is it Intercepting anything?

Sure, you can target it to lock down archers, but that is true of many level 5 units, some of which that can move a lot faster, or regen all their HP each turn. The Ancient Ent really can do some good if it gets all up close, but you aren't going to do that without some extra work.