Royal thorns, have they been mentioned?

[Razorflame]

among various topics they are mentioned as good unit

[jake21]

Yea; most of my games only a few show up (there seems to always be two guaranteed loads of them; one on debir with 3 to 7 and one on [] with 30ish.

In one game (warrior) over 1000 showed up; had an impressive stack of ~1000. Only problem was resurection. The warrior usage of them resulted in thorns in stakcs of 3000 or 4000; throw in phantom on the royals and ..

Originally Posted by Razorflame

among various topics they are mentioned as good unit

[Razorflame]

royal thorns are a pain vs fire damage though

a big weakness but oh well xD
don't use em vs dragons or heroes

[Danielsan2000]

Not to mention that the Spell target isnt needed, since the the thorn stacks automatically attract the attention of the AI ... most times.

[Razorflame]

most times if they cannot reach a real unit

but archers might hit your real units

[Zechnophobe]

Yeah, Royal Thorns are pretty good. They tend to be lacking in number though, and their weakness to fire can be... very painful. Also, demonologists are the only consistent resurrectors for them... and also quite possibly the rarist unit in the game. So I think the combination of the two is why you don't hear a lot about them.

[Elwin]

Royal thorns are pretty good but they arent so popular because most users here play no loss campaings. And its impossible to do this with them.