Orcs on the March thread

[jake21]

Yea I definitely use blackhole for this fight; To a degree I think that spell is overpowered. Hum. I'm there now; so maybe I'll back up one save and try with rune mages/black dragons. Wonder if royal snakes have a high enough initative (probably not). Hum. Kind of hate to buy blackdragons; hate em. I have 4 fights left this game (k'tul (or whatever he is called); top floor of mage tower; this fight if i redo it and 'the end' fight). K'tul is gonna be a bear; I think they beefed him up; what troupes did you use for him? Hum. If black dragons are immune to his area attack maybe he is a good candidate... though the rune mages will die fast

Originally Posted by ckdamascus

Rune mages can revive your level 5s. I can't bear to lose a precious level 5 unit.

I probably did double phantom with the rune mages early on (and/or I experimented with phantom + black hole) for that very reason. They can blow through my phantoms and deal damage to my real rune mages.

I don't believe any unit has natural astral resistance. The Rune mage "MIGHT" but it wouldn't be anything to write home about. The translated AP manual is wrong. It calls "magic resistance" as "astral resistance".

Not to mention, orcs tend to bypass the Defense statistics with their abilities.

To win the initiative war, I use black dragons, so the double phantoms come up before the enemy can act. I might have onslaught 1 as well. But, unless you are in "control" of the battle to prevent a black dragon loss in a single volley of hits (you aren't, since the enemy clearly overpowers us), to avoid a loss with black dragons, they MUST be paired with rune mages Or shaman (rune mages are better, since they can revive black dragons, shaman can heal a black dragon via dancing axes).

High physical resistance units is definitely a good idea though.