Casters for GK

[Ace]

Come on, who wasn't having fun reading the updates after Book 1,where GK was just ripping sides apart? Sure, it can't stay that way, but it can be done entertainingly. Plus GK can splinter eventually.

[Foolamancer]

don't people read comics like Lucifer or Watchmen? Where the protagonist is uber powerful, yet the story is still awesome? It can be done, especially if it's temporary.

Which of the Watchmen are you referring to? Doctor Manhattan wasn't exactly the protagonist of the series - he spent most of his time avoiding everyone. Rorschach and Nite Owl weren't as powerful as Ozymandias, and Ozy himself was kind of set up as the villain.

Granted, I always thought of Ozymandias as the protagonist. I just don't think many other people do.

[Ace]

All 6 of the characters were equally protagonists, they all got almost equal page time too (well, they saved most of Adrian's for the end, but with good reason). Dr M certainly was.

[jabbersocky]

Will GK even get a shot at a caster? The air group is going from being trapped in the air space to being trapped in the garrison. So what's stopping Stately the casters and Tram just jumping on a unipegatar and getting the hell out of dodge?

[Foolamancer]

Will GK even get a shot at a caster? The air group is going from being trapped in the air space to being trapped in the garrison. So what's stopping Stately the casters and Tram just jumping on a unipegatar and getting the hell out of dodge?

An unfounded belief in their own invincibility.

[falldowngoboom]

Or they never joined the RCC 2. Or they got wailed so bad they're still rebuilding,

I thought the question was about why there aren't any in Wanda's decrypted army. That's why the question was followed by "GK should have at least a few heal-capable units."

(Another option that I didn't think of was that they WERE decrypted, but have subsequently been dusted in the Unaroyal campaign or the start of the Jetstone campaign.)

Though yours are also quite valid reasons why we haven't seen them among Jetstone's troops.

These are good points, thanks to both of you. Also they (GK) do apparently have some healy type units. Even if they just have scrolls. As I pointed out in the other thread, they have a medic on Jack in this pic. http://www.erfworld.com/book-2-archive/ ... -12-03.jpg

As for the casters, my guess is healamancers can use juice to dust uncroaked.

[Selexor]

It's likely that Healomancers can do a whole bunch of nifty things. If all they can do is replenish a unit's health, then they're pretty useless... but every caster we've seen has been able to do a variety of things. Off the top of my head, and picking from a dozen books, comics, games, etc. we could reasonably expect a Healomancer to do any of the following:

- Replenish the health of an injured unit
- Repair a damaged building
- Restore damanged golems / summoned beings / decrypted / etc.
- Replenish the Juice of a unit with casting abilites
- Remove negative status effects such as unconsciousness, insanity, suggestion spells, poison, etc.
- Create shields around a unit to protect it from harm
- Provide temporary boosts to a unit's speed, damage, health, etc.

Plus a dozen other things that "Healers" can do in various media. If a Healomancer is capable of even a bare handful of those things, or others I didn't list, then under the control of a skilled strategist they could be incredibly useful.

[Foolamancer]

Plus a dozen other things that "Healers" can do in various media. If a Healomancer is capable of even a bare handful of those things, or others I didn't list, then under the control of a skilled strategist they could be incredibly useful.

I've got a sneaking suspicion that Healomancers are going to turn out to be strikingly similar to AD&D 2e clerics.

Run for the hills!