Stupid Caster Tricks

[Welf von Ehrwald]

Moneymancy & Luckamancy
Buy units with really good rolls for their stats.

Schockamancy & Luckamancy
Create save-or-die spells. And expect really bad rolls.

[charles]

possible croakamancer powers:

Dead arm - Disables a unit from attacking but not defending (better yet, the arm attacks the owner and must be cut off and replaced by a chainsaw )
DeadAIM - allows long distance communication through undead/decrypted units.
Dead as the Dodo - possibly require a linkup but croaks all units of a particular non-humanoid race in a hex.
Dead badger - poison gass trap set by croakamancer. (extra bad when a crap goelm is involved)
Dead beat - prevent/disable leadership bonuses from a warlord.
Dead Man Walking - Random chance of the affected unit dying at the beginning of any turn.
Dead Possum - Fake death - possibly require link with foolamancer possibly something they can only pull on themselves.
Dead Silence - Complete lack of noise in a hex,
Kill or be killed - Kill a friendly unit to prevent your own death or simply heal yourself.
Death Wish - Units attack stats are increased but defense weakened or they die at the end of turn.

[opal]

Proposed powers

Weirdomancy: Create a vehicle, a object with move. So an item, like Ansom's carpet, can act as a mount.

[BLANDCorporatio]

Effing magic.

Here's another weird trick: Von Neumann Vehicle: an object with Move and Fabrication, so that when it stops, it can create another object with Move and Fabrication.

[Agarwaen]

Arkendish empowered Thinkamancy + Healomancy + Date-a-mancy = get Wanda and Jillian back together
Hat Magic = Teleportation
Thinkamancy + Dirtamancy + Hat Magic = Switch two entire hexes.
Wierdomancy = Messing with Erfworld's "relative" time
Like making it impossible for two different groups to attack the hex the Wierdomancer is in at the same time.

[DarcDiscordia]

Dollamancy + Shockmancy + Mathamancy = Robots!

[Thunder]

need a thinkamancer to link and four cant even be done

[DarcDiscordia]

Ah, oops. I mean Thinkamancy instead of Mathamancy- I had Mathamancy on the brain for some reason.

[ftl]

How would robots be different from golems?

[Thunder]

id imagine the robots would be made of metal and thus having a higher defense stat then say flesh or cloth

[ftl]

id imagine the robots would be made of metal and thus having a higher defense stat then say flesh or cloth

http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/ ... etal_Golem

[Thunder]

seems that what i said was corect then no?

[ftl]

Well, I pointed out that robots wouldn't be any different from golems, and pointed out a golem that already had the properties that you ascribed to a robot.

(Also, it was made by a Dirtamancer, not any of the previously mentioned casters.)

I thought you were disagreeing with at least one of those; if not, well, then we agree.

[DarcDiscordia]

I'd imagine the robots would be functionally identical to Metal Golems, just able to be made without Dirtamancy.

[Thunder]

Yah no i agree with the same as metel golems, seems so far that the only difference is that because they are created with shockamancy they would have some additional offensive abilities.

also they get a bonus special because their robots

[splintermute]

Some golems seem to have natural shockamancy.

[kriss]

Ok, new member, and I'm entering this thread as my first official post. Mark it well.

Here's my combo, Think+Dito+Fool.

Foolamancer : Makes images and can provide bonuses from deception. Know tricks include disguise, invisibility, and false objects.

Ditomancer: Can double command and caster bonuses, as well as produce duplicates of missile fire attacks. May be able to duplicate other simple objects.

Now then, this seems an odd combo, but the trick isn't to generalize the use, but focus. Specificly, create a duplicate of your Chief Warlord. Not an illusionary double, a duplicate, useing Ditomancy to copy over the stats to an image created by the Foolamancer, and the image is made solid by the combination focusing mostly on the Dittomancys ability to create coppies of physical objects. So now you have 2 Chief Warlords with all the bonuses therein. Send off the copy with a good sized unit off on a support mission, like say a tunnle attack, while the real CW leads the main forces to attack the walls. With 2 CWs, thier leadership bonus will pump things up drasticly by thier mear presence. Stick both in a stack with a few eliete heavies with them, each CW granting thier unit thier full leadership bonus, plus giving thier copy a leadership bonus, and idealy you'd have the equivilant of a whole unit of CWs lead by two Overlords attacking. If not then it would probably be just Warlords lead by CWs, which is still impressive.

[Thunder]

if what you said works, i think you'd be way better off copying casters, they seem like a much much more powerful unit

[ftl]

if what you said works, i think you'd be way better off copying casters, they seem like a much much more powerful unit

Sounds like an exploit to me.

Dittomancer to dittomancer to dittomancer to dittomancer to ... to dittomancer to C-C-C-C-Combo-breaker!

Infinite decoys! ...but if one of them croaks, then the doppleganger that that dittomancer created will also vanish, and so on and so forth. But hey! It's an absolutely hilarious way to create the appearance of a giant army without the use of a foolamancer!

[kriss]

if what you said works, i think you'd be way better off copying casters, they seem like a much much more powerful unit

Except casters can't give bonuses to each other, and can only give bonuses to specific compatable units. I suppose if you doubled a dollomancer with clothgolems it would also be strong, but casters aren't as surviable in direct combat. Thats why I recomended the CW trick. You can easily 'pump up the volume' so to speak, getting a lo more bang for your buck, especialy if it's a strong one like Ceaser or a Jetstone Prince, or even a certain hotheaded Queen.