Huge enemy DEF at early game.

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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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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

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.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

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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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

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

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

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.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

ooops, accidentaly double posted

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

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

 

 

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

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.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

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.