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| hi, i am a necro and i often get thrased by knights mainly because of their seemingly impossible to defeat swordsmen. i have no ranged units so, i cant attack it without getting close, and when i do, my unit gets hammered by the swordsmen. anyone has any advice to help me improve? please state their weaknesses too if u can :) thx |
Swordmen has a large shield ability which will make all ranged damage received to be reduce by 50% , so ranging with ranged units won't kill Swordmen easily...
You can use your Ghosts to attack Swordmen , since Swordmen is a slow type creature , then it is useful if you are equipped with Artifacts that give "Initiative" ...
Good Luck ~ |
thx akrisae, but usually the ghosts cant do much damage to them and when they retaliate and do hit my ghosts, the whole stack perishes...
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seperate your ghosts to 1-1-1-12
take sworswman's retal with 1 stack and hit them with 12.you can use vamp to assist you in killing them
and you need to get skeleton archers ASAP |
| seperate your ghosts to 1-1-1-12 but careful about bowman's volley :P |
| also be carefull of single bowmen because they are usually used to garentie a hit on ghosts by taking the misses.. if you understand that :) |
| being a knight myself i wuld say the ideas told b everyone is good and true |
hi, im the main character of darklord98961 so i have another question...
since swordmens initiative and speed is low, is it possible that i take out the swordsmen's retal and then strike with my ghost and run away before the swordsmen's next turn? its seems kinda possible but i never really tried... |
but u might not get ur ghost's turn twice before swords turn...then it might be a problem
but yeah if u get 2 turns before swords u can do that |
for Master98961:
It may be possible , since Swordmen base initiative is 8 while Ghost is 10 , it is possible. But , because Necromancer has no Morale then it will be a little hard for you to do it. Every 5 turns of Ghost and Swordmen , there is chance that Ghost can move twice. Still , be careful with Swordmen that has more than 2 Morale ... |
| so what happens if they have more than 2 morale? |
| It will be hard for you to hit and run like you just said... |
| so morale helps in initiative? |
I am a necro too and face the same problem. Necros are really pathetic against almost all factions, unfortunately till level 7 it is only going to get worse. Its almost impossible to fight 55 swordsmen with 12 vamps and 26 ghosts, and enemy bowmen are also a problem as darklord aptly stated. The only way is to wait for liches and apparations, you will get become really powerful then as you will not only get a caster but also a plague shooter and apparitions well they are awesome cuz they are apparations. Period :)
P.S: Watch out for elves too as they strike ghosts with lightning, but when you get apps, you will have a fighting chance (drain mana) |
so morale helps in initiative?
morale have nothing to do with initiative.
however, morale do speed up a creature turn by half if is trigger.
so when swordmen trigger morale, they will for sure catch up your ghost. |
