Well, maybe I spoke too soon... though I feel like if he didn't stall he could have retreated to the fort instead of getting overrun by the next wave...
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Mekone has been AI'd
Yeah I'm not too confident I will be able to hold. Half of it is they just have sheer numbers over me, so I am losing via attrition. The other half is me fumbling with Hydras. But I'm learning at least.
Generally speeking if you're playing MA Pythium Hydras are not your go to and you'd want to be using mages. You can get turbo communions going with em.Yeah I'm not too confident I will be able to hold. Half of it is they just have sheer numbers over me, so I am losing via attrition. The other half is me fumbling with Hydras. But I'm learning at least.
Ye. MA Pythium generally goes for communions, angels and roman steel, in that order.
Well....
The plan was to actually have an alliance against you two, but instead everyone quit just as these wars got started.
So just as a teachable moment, look at something's size. Bigger units are easier to surround and units get hit very easily when surrounded. Hydra at full health is harder to surround (takes 4 more units than normal) but loses that trait as it loses heads (it changes form and loses heads as it's health drops). So what becomes even more important on a large unit is protection/physical resistances, it needs to be able to take very low damage. Hydra has 8 which is pretty bad. You can do magical shenanigans to get around it but it's still a pretty fragile and expensive unit to frontline. In many cases 200g of cheap units are going to be a better proposition then a hydra. I'd probably only use them extensively against/with poison spam and defensive spamming earth/nature mages to help them not die.Yeah I'm not too confident I will be able to hold. Half of it is they just have sheer numbers over me, so I am losing via attrition. The other half is me fumbling with Hydras. But I'm learning at least.
He's fighting dudes whose second form has 25 poison res that come 5 to a square, Hydras aren't going to do shit, Mekone had the right idea with mass evocations and beat a couple fat stacks before getting overrun by sheer numbers.
Keep in mind this is the second time I've fought Yomi, and that was a few years ago. I don't think they even did this strat while fighting. But you know, at least I learned something.
The Yomi chaff really is no joke. I dont recall them being this cracked even on Dom 5.
Ozellotis are such horseshit it's unreal. They're stupid good. Had a game against Xibalba who won with armies of these guys alone. Insanely good use of Eagle Warriors btw. Surprised how well they outperformed your cats from hell.
Cats only took so many casualties because I put a bunch on attack flyers immediately to suicide divebomb his manticores before they threaten my mageclump (still got a turkey and commander, rip). Eaglemen just got the numbes advantage, and they still barely outkilled the cats. Once my mages pulled the Lategame switch the rest of the army barely took casualties.
If you play against Xibalba, Mictalan, Caleum, etc. you should really see the flying units attacking a mile away to be honest. Literally have a huddled mass of men on mages set to hold and attack fliers. or Hell do that AND have a mass of infantry kitted to fight them in the back. They only have so many methods of targetting, and mages and commanders aren't explicitly one of em.
