Huge enemy DEF at early game.

Turn 150. Yithril has one town and lvl one on all research.

I've attacked it's sov at the city influence area. Enemy army - familiar, rock giant and sov. And sov has 53 defence, at about third turn it dropped to 40 but this is still big number. I guess it's impossible to get without some uber legendary equipment or spells.

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Not too hard to get that high, just needs good armor and stand on a hill (+50% def bonus). He might have picked the armor up from a quest or notable locations.

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Have you noticed the yitril soldiers with Kwarizarm (whatever that sword is). This sword costs 2275 in the item shop which maket it impossible to get pre-midgame imo, but I've noticed it's fairly common on yrithril soldiers. The game I played now had one guy hit & kill my fire giant on the second round. I'm assuming the AI is arbitrarily beefed up on Ridiculous settings with additional gildar becaue I have no idea how they could even equip one guy with this sword at 2275 much less 3 or 4 ... unless I'm completely missing something from this game? I can take these guys out, but usually need deflect, that extra magical damage bonus for this sword is crazy. I think it only applied on the first attack though.

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He might, but I find enemy sovereign's always have pretty good armor fairly early while they are apparently always researching adventuring first. Weird. They have money to buy those armor + spamming cities and armies like there's no tomorrow

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Quoting cpl_rk, reply 2
Have you noticed the yitril soldiers with Kwarizarm (whatever that sword is). This sword costs 2275 in the item shop which makes it impossible to get pre-midgame imo, but I've noticed it's fairly common on yrithril soldiers. The game I played now had one guy hit & kill my fire giant on the second round. I'm assuming the AI is arbitrarily beefed up on Ridiculous settings with additional gildar becaue I have no idea how they could even equip one guy with this sword at 2275 much less 3 or 4 ... unless I'm completely missing something from this game? I can take these guys out, but usually need deflect, that extra magical damage bonus for this sword is crazy. I think it only applied on the first attack though.

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ooops, accidentaly double posted

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find fire node, hit him with 2 fireballs, he's dead. repeat

 

Having a huge defense means nothing in this game with such a low Health pool. 15 hits is one spell sometimes

 

 

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What I did was reload autosave:) conquer hist last city, attack him on neutral ground and finished him with hurl boulder and stone rain. At this battle he has 'only' 20 DEF.

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One of the recent patches put back in territory bonuses. You get a 25% bonus or penalty for being in friendly or hostile ground - this is mostly across be board to attack and defense. Stack this with a few armor pieces, you can be pretty good.

 

Though that early, it's likely to avoid making the AI -too- easy to conquer as it's not like - spells currently not withstanding - the AI has a lot of options and smarts to tough it out.