Question about mageek

from Elemental Forums

so i was playing my first game with the AI on hard, was neck and neck with an empire with 5x my score, basically turtling and expanding inside myshell getting ready to push back, when bam volcano on my capital city and one of my two metal producing cities, completely destroyed the one and put my capital back to nothing.....

 

on one hand i was like, huh, good for you ai, your improving, i mean i wasnt going to use any poopy spells on you, but hey, you go girl....

 

on the other hand i was like, WTFBBQ no warning, just BAM and two cities virtually wiped out.... LAME

 

my question is, as it stands, is their any way to counter game altering spells like that? If so, how?

 

spanks

elemental
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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Awesome.  Thats great that the ai can do that.  Wow, can't wait to see the AI do that to me.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Wow. That was very nearly a specific request I made in that thread about improving the AI. Heh.

That's actually awesome to hear.

As for countering it, I don't think they have spells to protect/prevent. There's the "Spell Immunity" to prevent high level magic from just outright killing an important hero (or your sovereign). However, city protection magic is still limited.

In Master of Magic, the Sorcery spells had a number of overland spell prevention stuff. I'd like to see those make a comeback.

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

The volcano spell has a 5-square range. If going to war against an AI who can cast this spell, scout your borders and wipe out any champions you see. It takes a champion with INT>36 for them to cast it (unless their Sovereign casts it).

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

does the champ have to be within a certain distance of the spell?

After that i changed my play strategy, i rush city building and getting my ZOC blocking entry to my cities, try to bottleneck them so they only see one city in the beginning, then go from there (expand out when they declare war, set up a second defensive line just in case, etc.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Lord, reply 1
Awesome.  Thats great that the ai can do that.  Wow, can't wait to see the AI do that to me.

 You're going t ahve leave one of them alive long enough to do that to you mr Blood & Claws. :grin:


my question is, as it stands, is their any way to counter game altering spells like that? If so, how?

 

spanks

 It used to be you could protect your cities from enemy spells. But I don't know if somethigns been changed.. (prolly ahs since there so many changes^^) but I couldn't find any counter spell in any of the spell books my Sov knows that protects my Empires cities from Volcano. Seems the only way to protect your cities fromt hat spell is building a mountain range that keeps enemy Sov's & Heros out of range to cast taht spell on your city. I havn't finished my current game thats trying to test that strat out. Has anyone else done so allready?

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

I think someone in my game has used the volcano or something, the game screen started shaking, but I didn't lose a city, so it might have been AI vs AI, but now the game won't stop shaking...

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Massively destructive strategic spells need some sort of "warm up period" to give the receiving player a chance to defend.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting TheProgress, reply 7
Massively destructive strategic spells need some sort of "warm up period" to give the receiving player a chance to defend.

 

that plus some means to offend against them :P