Phantom & Royal Snakes combo

[lethul]

Originally Posted by kadrzys

I just came out with an idea.. There's a way to use Royal Snakes without being attacked in melee for about 3 rounds. And it's a BOMB. I use them that way and it works fine. I just got phantom spell and tried to combine it with this strat. but I'm a Warrior and can't upgrade fast Phantom up to lvl 3
43% it's a lethal thing.. Think about it:
-frog wife
-boots which give +1 speed and initiative to snakes (I got them in my game, without this it should work too)
-bless spell
-phantom spell
that's 4 or 3 (without bless spell) ingredients of this lethal (i think so) tactic.
Simply you use sorched earth tactic (mentioned by sector24 in Beating the game with no losses (Paladin) topic) but meanwhile you cast phantom on your snakes (once per turn as Pala and Warrior, two times as Mage). Of course mana pool is a limitation but there are ways to recover it (like +3 mana per turn belt and high concetration and Magic Spring). Anyone finds it good? worth trying out (asking because of priceless time needed to make it working like a real lethal bomb).

Might add the Snake Ring too

[kadrzys]

if I got any
maybe something which gave % bonus to attack for animals (I don't know such an item)

btw I find phantom spell funny as hell while sailing around IoF. I've got archmages and evil beholders in my army and by phantomise them I can use their shield and hypnotise abilite more than once in battle and it makes my squad more extensible than I imagined. I use sometimes fast run strat with sea dogs and can cast on them archmage shield about three times (when almost all enemy units hit them) or I can hypnotise with evil beholders more than once some annoying stack of ranged unit or even a single emerald dragon of one giant hero I think I got the most universal squad for this land now and I've got a lot of fun.