Posts from Defensive gameplay and other tactics.

Basically, I was recently playing as the dwarves. And my city was under siege. I couldn't engage in an open battle (they would have killed me immediately), so I decided to just shoot at them. Their troops approached almost right up to my walls, avoiding the mines, and waited for the catapult to destroy my wall. At that moment, I had an upgraded version of spearmen. I activated their ability and pulled the enemies right onto the mines!

By the way, summoning magic is the most convenient for defense. For example, if the enemy destroys your gate with a catapult, you place a wall of swords right in front of the gate, and in front of it, another wall of fire. As a result, while their troops in melee combat break through the wall of swords, they will also take damage from the wall of fire. You can set up such combinations not only in front of the gate, but also in front of the broken parts of the walls. You can place two walls of fire in a row. But this is usually against large creatures. So, summoning magic is great for defense. It's true that the wall of fire has now been moved to the Chaos school, but you can still learn this spell using the Wisdom ability.

If you want to stay in the Castle and defend, you can destroy the catapult before it breaks through the wall or gate. However, the enemy might escape.

:smile14: In another section of this forum, a girl asked how she could best fight Phoenixes without specifying a particular situation (judging by the help files, it's a common problem:confused:). Besides the banishment spell (which isn't always available and isn't always powerful) and a strong unit of high-level units with fire immunity (which not all factions have):smile13:. But there's also a tactical solution: take one powerful unit of archers into battle, and the rest are single units of level 1 or 2 (units you don't mind losing) with high initiative (e.g., sprites). Place the archers in a corner or behind obstacles on the battlefield, and the rest surround them in a checkerboard pattern, constantly moving after the Phoenixes destroy one of them, while the archers and the hero calmly destroy them. This solution isn't new, of course (it's often used against creatures that occupy 4 squares), but it works very effectively against Phoenixes with their high initiative and retaliatory attack with the entire resurrected group (after destroying the last one in the main group) (minimal losses):smile14:

Once, he successfully placed a portal in the right location, defending the succubi.

But wouldn't a phoenix damage the archer unit, even if they are under cover? After all, it attacks like a dragon, with fire breath, over two squares.

use "Puppet Master" on each of the mages, as they have it thanks to the AI.

I mean the Dominate spell.

By the way, I recently played on a duel server, and I was playing as humans, although that's not important. The main thing is that my opponent, playing as Dwarves, sent his upgraded lightning tanks (I don't remember their exact name) to my rear and cast the Berserker rune on them, which allows them to attack each nearby enemy without taking damage. In this way, he killed a lot of my units and won. This is how cool the Berserker rune can be used!