Posts from Tactics against Necromancers.

I read a funny thread on the forum where people discuss fighting against the Necromancer, especially in his late and extremely rare super-late game stage. And recently I played an online game where my tower battle against the Necromancer dragged on, and in the final battle (end of the second month), the Necromancer fielded almost 9000 skeletons, while also having collected the Vial of Life, meaning each skeleton had 10 HP. Of course, I know that experienced players will immediately say that this was a noobish game and that they would have destroyed the tower much earlier with the Necromancer. My opponent would have done the same, but the GO from the crowd of Phoenixes was too strong, and he went around to attack on the fourth week with 2000 skeletons and the Book of Earth Magic, with a lot of mana and good spell power. I knew this because on the third week I dug up the Grail and saw all his movements. Knowing that he would have a powerful damage explosion and seeing the location of all the artifacts, I raised the Cloak of Spell Resistance above level 2. With 2000 skeletons and the explosion, my opponent calmly attacked my castle with all his troops and the Pope. And failed, naturally. He bought himself out. And decided that time was working for him, given how developed his Vidomina was. However, the map revealed by the Grail allowed me to collect the Statue of the Legion. As a result, despite the insane stats and huge number of skeletons, time worked in my favor. But maybe enough words already. Here is the map and the save file , right after collecting the Statue of the Legion; I made it because I managed to collect it for the first time. Unfortunately, the final battle wasn't saved. But believe me, victory was mine! Here is one way to fight against the Necromancer, even in the mega-late game.

One won game (and probably not against a strong opponent) isn't an indicator yet. But if you win 8 out of 10 or 9 out of 10 games (or something like that), and against roughly equal opponents, then yes, the strategy works. And real matches are played according to the online rules of seasonal games, where visiting cartographers is prohibited in principle, and building a Grail before week 5 is forbidden.

And bypassing GO, even with Phoenixes while having 2000 skeletons or so, is just ridiculous.

Winning one game (and probably not against a very strong opponent) is not yet an indicator.

of course not. I just added it as a joke, to show how it can be.

And bypassing the Guardian of the Grail, even with Phoenixes, while having around 2000 skeletons, is just ridiculous.

why bypass it? He destroyed it. Easily. Just having 2000 on week 4 doesn't mean he had them on week 1.

And real games are played according to the online rules of seasonal games, where visiting mapmakers is prohibited in principle, and building the Grail before week 5 is not allowed.

who's arguing? It's just a joke.

Okay, if that's the joke, then I have no further questions. I thought you were being completely serious about all of this.

I thought you were completely serious about all of this.

No, that's not the case. This game is just a demonstration.
But it's meant to show that defeating a Necromancer with 9,000 skeletons and insane stats on a random map is possible.

mapmakers are not allowed to visit at all.

Visiting the Tower with the Grail is pointless.

Visiting the Tower with the Grail is pointless.

Seriously???

Do you think I just wrote that because I can't tell the difference between a cartographer and a Grail? Or was it to emphasize the "unserious" methods of revealing the map?

Why clutter the forum with topics that describe one game, played by some unknown people against other unknown people?
At least, it would make some sense in a topic like "Tactics against Necromancers," which was created much earlier and has a lot of discussion.

Why clutter the forum with topics that describe one game, played by some unknown person against another unknown person?

Sorry, buddy, but who are you? You're also some unknown person, aren't you? )))
The purpose of this post was simply to show an example of a victory over a late-game Necromancer in a real game.

Sorry, buddy, but who are you? You're also some random guy. )))
The purpose of this post was simply to show an example of defeating a late-game Necromancer in a real game.

Sorry, but did I say anything about myself anywhere?
Also, there's a topic with exactly the same title. It would be more appropriate there.

Sorry, buddy, but who are you? You're also some unknown entity.)))
The purpose of this post was simply to show an example of a victory over a late-game Necromancer in a real game.

By the way, you were rightly pointed out – why create duplicate topics? Were you too lazy to search the forum? Or did you want everyone to pay attention to you (were you afraid of getting lost in the general topic as an unknown person)?

Sorry for the duplicate topic. I thought that a general discussion about how to defeat Necropolis with 10k skeletons is different from a specific example of how it was done.