(Suggestion) World Destruction

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Sometimes, I don't want to conquer a city. Most of the times, actually, when I think I have enough cities and I just want to destroy my opponents, I favor a scorch the land approach. In MoO, you could build a planet destroyer. Instead of conquer my enemies, I exterminated them.
What I suggest is not a simple raze the enemy city. I suggest magics that can turn fields into desert or burning lands, that no man can settle, or a frozen tundra that cities can't flourish in. I want  to destroy cities in a way they can't be rebuild, but I don't want to turn all the world into mountains doing this. See, you should be possible to "rebuild" the destroyed tiles, and destroying the world should be costly and time consuming, and everyone should hate you for it, but I think would add a great deal of fun.
Imagine two or more empires fighting each other, between them a vast wasteland that if any unit dare to cross, they cast a rain of destructive magic that destroy and scar the landscape and the units. We should even be able to destroy resources and roads.

Anyway, I just like the possibilities this can have. I dislike maintaining a huge empire, I like a small well optimized empire, but I want the possibility to limit the expansion of other factions.


What do you guys think?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

There are some devastating endgame spells like volcano and grip of winter. The shadow portal thing can get nasty on smaller maps as well.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Heavenfall, reply 1
There are some devastating endgame spells like volcano and grip of winter. The shadow portal thing can get nasty on smaller maps as well.


Hmm I never saw one of those. I guess they are Fallen-only spells?
What especifically they do? Googled about it but I had no luck.

EDIT: I found some things about it. So grip of winter freezes city production (global?) and Curgens Volcano it's a nuke? I guess I better play to find it. ALthough they sound like what I'm looking for, they will be useless if they don't destroy resources and turn the land in a unhabitable wasteland.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

The volcano is a nuke, yeah, it kills and destroys everything where you cast it.

The grip of winter is not really "world destruction" but what it does is target a city, and that city cannot build or train units and all resources linked to it suffer a 50% reduction in income.

The shadow portal opens a gate and demons come out trying to kill stuff. If not handled, the area becomes uninhabitable because they are strong.