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That's it, yeah. Haunted is the manikin one, wild hunt the sacred killer, probably a couple others I'm forgetting. Nature and nature crosspaths actually have a lot of really nice globals besides the normal Mother Oak/Gift of Health, they just don't seem to get used all that much. I'd actually consider wild hunt almost a straight counter to reanimation nations -- killing off 3-4 priests a turn does pretty terrible things to nations reliant on H casters for something or another, and they're bloody hard to stop in D4.

As to cast and retreat, basically anything that's battlefield wide and a single turn effect -- earthquake, mass enslave, solar brilliance, etc., etc., etc. Most of the lingering stuff will cut off once the caster retreats. Bonus points if they don't have a means of healing affliction and the spell causes them (plague, solar brilliance again, and so on). You can do it earlier with non-battlefield wide stuff, it's just riskier and generally not as effective.

And yeah, horror marking in general is kinda' iffy, especially compared to disease and whatnot. The flip side to that is that disease and afflictions can be, well, countered. Horror marks and seeds are pretty much forever, and you can't really get rid of them short of getting the afflicted killed off. Also blood tends to be really nice for just spewing those kinds of things all over the place -- leprosy may be 20 times better, but a blood nation may just be able to cast horror seed 20 times more than they can cast leprosy S'all about access and what the target can manage, basically.

Uh. If that's promised for the first attempt, I can definitely confirm it doesn't work. I've actually ate nothing but potatoes for about a week before (particularly lazy, potatoes are very easy to cook, etc., etc.), and nothing like that happened. Like, at all.

Come on, don't fuck up my shitty joke.

Gotta' start thursday morning off somehow. Low bars make for easy liftin' :V

Yeeaaah, the arcane nexus that lasted like two turns was aggression for the attacks that started several after it got kicked down. I've got this other leg here, it's got bells on it. Very pullable!

... that said, yeah, if Iwi had given any warning they were intending to cast the nexus, I would have advised against it. The rest of our team found out what was happening the same turn y'all did :V

Totally theorycrafting here (IGNORE ME!) - but would it be better to send a SC by themselves, or with a couple of demon bodyguards?

I'm 50% concerned that if the bodyguards die, the SC will flee, and 50% concerned that if I don't give my SC bodyguards, that he'll get killed before he decides it's time to leave.

Actual SCs usually work better solo, yeah, if they're not being used to supplement an army. As you kinda' noticed, routing is a pretty serious issue with SCs that bring friends along. If you're going to have bodyguards, you'll probably want more than just a couple, heh, unless those are rather incredibly beefy bodyguards (i.e. you're just using packs of SCs instead of solo ones, which is just fine if you can afford it ).

That said, if you're intending for it to retreat anyway, it might not be that big of a deal if they bug out early. It's mostly a problem when you don't intend for that, and/or there's no escape routes available.

Not a significant voting bloc, though.

It might be, actually. Survey seems to have been done by these folks, though I got bored trying to find the actual data around that point. The numbers admitting to some degree of it definitely seem to be going up, though. It's not really an insignificant voting bloc anymore, heh, and seems likely to be even less so going forward.

... today I learned that watching wrathful skies go off in a replay can crash the game. Welp.