Royal thorns, have they been mentioned?

[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.

[Razorflame]

it's very easy to do a no loss with royal thorns if u got demonologist

[Elwin]

There are some nasty heroes on first islands with flaming arrow where u cant avoid loss of royal thorn. Doubt u have demonoligist in tha part of game. Unless you do map kiting of course

[Razorflame]

i got demo's on scarlet winds

but anyway

those heroes do like 75~150 damage a royal thorn got more hp than that..

just beware of burning effect in which case u cast dispel

[BB Shockwave]

I always found good quantities of them on the big main island (forgot the name right now). Even used them for a while, but since I was going for no loss as a warrior, and got Time Back only late in the game (and Sacrifice doesn't really work for a warrior due to low magic stats) I dropped them later.

Also, sadly there are a lot of fire-using enemies (Fire Dragonflies, Imps, Demonologists, Alchemists, red and black Dragons) that will most assuredly pick on your royal thorns. Summoning weaker thorns helps, but since they are so slow, they always get to act after these fast enemies.

That said, I still value them more then the Gobot-spawning Chosa. Those cannot do anything when they are not adjacent to an enemy. Royal Thorns can at least move, and with haste they can even move and shoot in the same turn. They also have a very strong attack even at melees range.