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Seraph's Devils Guide

2006-11-24T16:38:35Z

Seraphblade: /* Preparation */

== Devils Cycle ==

Devils can only be summoned once every 3 days. That is when the former devil price leaves.
In order to maximise your benefit from this 3 day cycle, you will want

- A maximum time (24+ hrs) of devils

- 2 days of surviving while having the devil price leeching ur mana supply.

==Preparation==
Before you cast CoS, you shld have the following for the best results:

- At least 1.2 million mana

- At least 400k population

- Some Book of prophecy and Wine (For your recovery)

- A decent and big army

Once you have these, unleash the DEVILS!

==24 HOURS OF GODHOOD==
During this 24 hours, you are almost GOD. It is extremely hard for you to lose more power. However, it is not impossible to lose more power.

Unless you have low population, Devils will certainly wipe out your opponent's top stack.
However, if your opponent have a very deep stack, with his heavy hitters as #2 or 3, you can still not inflict enough damage or worse, lose more power.

I usually work around with 40 - 60% Liches + Reavers, 15 - 25% Demon Knights, and the rest as zombies and skeles. (120k+ troops)

Some guides hate demon knights, but for myself, demon knights are the only answer to surviving holy stacks. (The biggest fear of black mages)

Demon knights have 100% resistant to Ascendant Magic and 400% resistant to holy damage.

Now, you have 2 things that you can do.
1) Go and counter some of the mages that attacked u recently
2) Wait for full turns before countering

==ATTACKING / COUNTERING WITH DEVILS==
I prefer to do some counters first. This is because when you cast devils, you are most likely to be under-summoned else you would be able to sustain and charge 1.2mil mana. And when you are under-summoned, you always become a land fat target for randoms. Remember: Under devils, you will never want to summon troops. As a result, if u want to wait for full turns, you might come back with really little troops.

With the above mentioned stacking order, it is really impossible to lose. I've always captured 120 - 140 land while destroying 240 - 270. That is a good almost 400+ land lost =)

I usually go for a max of 3, rarely 4 attacks. You are now left with 5 - 10% of ur initial population. You will need the remaining population to sustain devils for the maximum amount of time.

Log out and come back 23 hrs later with full turns (blitz) and a good laugh.

Most of the time, when u log back in, you shld be under protection. This is because even tough you do not lose land, you are still losing quite a big amount of troops.

Attack as many as you can till u burst.

==RECOVER==
When u burst, you shld have have at least 180 turns. U will need to rebuild ur workshops before starting to build up on ur newly conquered land.
Remember to cast black sabbath once you have above 100k population.
You will now need to summon as much zombies as you can.

==SURVIVING THE 2 DAYS==
The trick of surviving these 2 days is by entering protection constantly. You are unable to sustain reavers or high amount of liches. THe only way is to summon lots and lots of zombies.

However, it is important to know this. Your zombies are not only to defend your country. Your zombies are to make sure that you lose LOTS of power and enter protection ASAP. Zombies + flight works pretty well.

Demon Knights as mentioned earlier is good for defense.

Keep this up, and soon you will repeat this 3 days cycle =)

Have fun.

Seraph's Devils Guide

2006-11-24T16:38:17Z

Seraphblade: /* Devils Cycle */

== Devils Cycle ==

Devils can only be summoned once every 3 days. That is when the former devil price leaves.
In order to maximise your benefit from this 3 day cycle, you will want

- A maximum time (24+ hrs) of devils

- 2 days of surviving while having the devil price leeching ur mana supply.

==Preparation==
Before you cast CoS, you shld have the following for the best results:
- At least 1.2 million mana
- At least 400k population
- Some Book of prophecy and Wine (For your recovery)
- A decent and big army

Once you have these, unleash the DEVILS!

==24 HOURS OF GODHOOD==
During this 24 hours, you are almost GOD. It is extremely hard for you to lose more power. However, it is not impossible to lose more power.

Unless you have low population, Devils will certainly wipe out your opponent's top stack.
However, if your opponent have a very deep stack, with his heavy hitters as #2 or 3, you can still not inflict enough damage or worse, lose more power.

I usually work around with 40 - 60% Liches + Reavers, 15 - 25% Demon Knights, and the rest as zombies and skeles. (120k+ troops)

Some guides hate demon knights, but for myself, demon knights are the only answer to surviving holy stacks. (The biggest fear of black mages)

Demon knights have 100% resistant to Ascendant Magic and 400% resistant to holy damage.

Now, you have 2 things that you can do.
1) Go and counter some of the mages that attacked u recently
2) Wait for full turns before countering

==ATTACKING / COUNTERING WITH DEVILS==
I prefer to do some counters first. This is because when you cast devils, you are most likely to be under-summoned else you would be able to sustain and charge 1.2mil mana. And when you are under-summoned, you always become a land fat target for randoms. Remember: Under devils, you will never want to summon troops. As a result, if u want to wait for full turns, you might come back with really little troops.

With the above mentioned stacking order, it is really impossible to lose. I've always captured 120 - 140 land while destroying 240 - 270. That is a good almost 400+ land lost =)

I usually go for a max of 3, rarely 4 attacks. You are now left with 5 - 10% of ur initial population. You will need the remaining population to sustain devils for the maximum amount of time.

Log out and come back 23 hrs later with full turns (blitz) and a good laugh.

Most of the time, when u log back in, you shld be under protection. This is because even tough you do not lose land, you are still losing quite a big amount of troops.

Attack as many as you can till u burst.

==RECOVER==
When u burst, you shld have have at least 180 turns. U will need to rebuild ur workshops before starting to build up on ur newly conquered land.
Remember to cast black sabbath once you have above 100k population.
You will now need to summon as much zombies as you can.

==SURVIVING THE 2 DAYS==
The trick of surviving these 2 days is by entering protection constantly. You are unable to sustain reavers or high amount of liches. THe only way is to summon lots and lots of zombies.

However, it is important to know this. Your zombies are not only to defend your country. Your zombies are to make sure that you lose LOTS of power and enter protection ASAP. Zombies + flight works pretty well.

Demon Knights as mentioned earlier is good for defense.

Keep this up, and soon you will repeat this 3 days cycle =)

Have fun.

Guides

2006-11-24T16:37:31Z

Seraphblade:

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[[Alzorath's Nether Guide]] 
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[[Roxton's Simple Tips|Roxton's Tips for Verdant]] 
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Seraph's Devils Guide

2006-11-24T16:36:27Z

Seraphblade:

== Devils Cycle ==

Devils can only be summoned once every 3 days. That is when the former devil price leaves.
In order to maximise your benefit from this 3 day cycle, you will want
- A maximum time (24+ hrs) of devils
- 2 days of surviving while having the devil price leeching ur mana supply.

==Preparation==
Before you cast CoS, you shld have the following for the best results:
- At least 1.2 million mana
- At least 400k population
- Some Book of prophecy and Wine (For your recovery)
- A decent and big army

Once you have these, unleash the DEVILS!

==24 HOURS OF GODHOOD==
During this 24 hours, you are almost GOD. It is extremely hard for you to lose more power. However, it is not impossible to lose more power.

Unless you have low population, Devils will certainly wipe out your opponent's top stack.
However, if your opponent have a very deep stack, with his heavy hitters as #2 or 3, you can still not inflict enough damage or worse, lose more power.

I usually work around with 40 - 60% Liches + Reavers, 15 - 25% Demon Knights, and the rest as zombies and skeles. (120k+ troops)

Some guides hate demon knights, but for myself, demon knights are the only answer to surviving holy stacks. (The biggest fear of black mages)

Demon knights have 100% resistant to Ascendant Magic and 400% resistant to holy damage.

Now, you have 2 things that you can do.
1) Go and counter some of the mages that attacked u recently
2) Wait for full turns before countering

==ATTACKING / COUNTERING WITH DEVILS==
I prefer to do some counters first. This is because when you cast devils, you are most likely to be under-summoned else you would be able to sustain and charge 1.2mil mana. And when you are under-summoned, you always become a land fat target for randoms. Remember: Under devils, you will never want to summon troops. As a result, if u want to wait for full turns, you might come back with really little troops.

With the above mentioned stacking order, it is really impossible to lose. I've always captured 120 - 140 land while destroying 240 - 270. That is a good almost 400+ land lost =)

I usually go for a max of 3, rarely 4 attacks. You are now left with 5 - 10% of ur initial population. You will need the remaining population to sustain devils for the maximum amount of time.

Log out and come back 23 hrs later with full turns (blitz) and a good laugh.

Most of the time, when u log back in, you shld be under protection. This is because even tough you do not lose land, you are still losing quite a big amount of troops.

Attack as many as you can till u burst.

==RECOVER==
When u burst, you shld have have at least 180 turns. U will need to rebuild ur workshops before starting to build up on ur newly conquered land.
Remember to cast black sabbath once you have above 100k population.
You will now need to summon as much zombies as you can.

==SURVIVING THE 2 DAYS==
The trick of surviving these 2 days is by entering protection constantly. You are unable to sustain reavers or high amount of liches. THe only way is to summon lots and lots of zombies.

However, it is important to know this. Your zombies are not only to defend your country. Your zombies are to make sure that you lose LOTS of power and enter protection ASAP. Zombies + flight works pretty well.

Demon Knights as mentioned earlier is good for defense.

Keep this up, and soon you will repeat this 3 days cycle =)

Have fun.

DOLZero's Devil Guide

2006-11-24T16:03:31Z

Seraphblade:

'''Written by DOLZero, edited by Ninarx'''

There are 4 main phases that you will go through every time you run Devils:

*Preparation
*Counter Attacking
*Recovery
*Aftermath

== Preparation ==

We will start with the prep.

Here is a list of things you should have before casting CoS:

=== Requirements ===

*At least 10 [[Book of Prophecy|Books of Prophecy]], this is vital. You can't [[pillage]] people or geld with the [[Devil Prince]], so this is your best bet for recovering [[Population|pop]]. I like to make sure I have enough to get 10 successful uses, and it never hurts to run more.

*1,500,000 [[mana]] in your reserve. Your going to need 1,000,000 to cast [[Contract of the Soul|CoS]], 200,000 to recast [[Black Sabbath]] (it will go bye bye when your pop hits 0), [[mana]] for your [[defense assignment]] and enough [[mana]] for making an [[attack run]]. Having more won't hurt either, but generally I like to have it somewhere around there.

*[[Mana Crystal|Mana Crystals]] are always a good thing to have on hand and may be needed if you misjudge your [[mana]] income and expenses. You can never have too many in my opinion.

=== Additional Information ===

[[Population]]: The number of [[Devil|Devils]] you get is based on your [[population|pop]]. So if you cast when you are already low on [[population|pop]], you wont get much out of it. It can help if you use Wine of the Three Whips before hand, to boost up your [[population|pop]]. You lose it so fast that it's not really necessary, but definately wouldn't hurt. You might get an extra attack out of it, so give it a try sometime.

* you can actually fail casting [[Contract of the Soul|CoS]] if you dont have enough [[population|pop]]. The [[Devil Prince]] will "Ignore" you, and you will still lose the [[mana]] and [[turns]].

[[Units]]: You need to have an army, and not one that's total crap. Even if you wipe out their topstack, you can still lose more power then they do. Don't worry if you oversummon pop suckers either. You will zero your [[population#Zero Pop|pop]], so a [[Population#Zero pop|pop spiral]] won't really matter at this point.

[[Turns]]: Make sure that you will have full turns in 24 hours or less. Server: Leave about 35-40 [[turns]] left, Blitz will have full [[turns]] in less then 17 hours, so you can zero out on that server. You will want to leave some [[turns]] if you plan on making your [[Devil|Devils]] run right after casting.

Bait: Sometimes it helps to generate more [[counters]] (like you need any more with black) if you set yourself up to look a little fat, or undersummoned. Not necessary in most situations, but still worth considering.

== Counter Attacking ==

You got all that ready? Good. Now it's time to cast [[Contract of the Soul|Contract of the Soul]]. There are two ways of going about [[counters]], either run [[Devil|devils]] right away, or wait until the end of your 24 hours.

=== Devil Strat One ===

Some people like to make their [[counters]] right away, and then sit with minimal pop until your [[Devil|devils]] expire. This is good for 2 things:

*You can donate your [[geld]] stash to the [[Black Market]], in hopes to get overbid after you make your run (thus not losing most of your gold).

*And you can [[counter]] people who already hit you, and aren't expecting [[Devil|devils]].

I don't like to do this for one reason: If you run 6-8 turns of [[Contract of the Soul|CoS]], you will run your [[Population|pop]] almost to zero, thus not getting very many [[Devil|devils]] for defense afterwards.

=== Devil Strat Two ===

You can cast [[Contract of the Soul|CoS]] and wait until the [[Devil|devils]] are at the end of their life (I usually run about 23 hours later on Guild, max turns on Blitz) and then counter the people that have randomed or attacked you while you had [[Devil|devils]] at full strength.

You can still bid on the market to save your [[geld]], but I don't know if you want to run a [[turns|turn]] with [[Devil|devils]] without attacking. That's up to you (I usually don't).

== Recovery ==

Made your [[counters]], killed some [[heroes]], at [[population#zero pop|zero pop]], now its time to start the recovery.

I'm sure you have some enemies (hopefully some with low bars) that you can leach pop off of with your [[Book of Prophecy|Books of Prophecy]]. If not, go scouting for Non-Description mages that probably won't ever be able to do anything about it. Now you don't need to get 10 successfully, but that will definately get you in a good position to start using your pop as a resource again.

[[Black Sabbath]] takes 666 [[population|pop]], and reduces your [[population|pop]] income. Once you have enough pop (i think its around 100,000) it's time to recast it. That recovery should take about 20 [[turns]], give or take 5.

== Aftermath ==

When your [[population|pop]] is back on track, [[Black Sabbath|black sabbath]] can start helping you with the [[mana]] situation. Now to deal with the aftermath (the hard part).

The [[Devil Prince]] has a negative impact on your [[mana]] (the equivelant of [[Black Sabbath]] having a positive effect) and he sticks around for 3 days. How is a black going to survive for 3 days with the bonus from BS being neutralized?

Here is a couple strats I've used:

Mono-[[Zombie|Zombies]] with [[flight]] as [[defense assignment]]. Not very costly and 500,000+ units is pretty easy to manage. The only opponents you'll need to worry about are reds with all fliers, or greens with big [[Treant|Treants]] that either get [[Carpet of Flying]] or [[Call Hurricane]] through your [[barriers]], or when you fail [[Flight]]. There are othere stacks that can break this, but those are the most consistant ones.

All fliers, [[Djinni]] top, followed up with combinations of [[Wraith]], [[Vampire|Vamps]], [[Chimera|Chims]], [[Wyvern]] or [[Sylph]] (maybe even recruit some [[Gargoyle|Gargoyles]]). [[Pegasus|Pegs]] or [[Sprites]] for fodder. It's hard to deal enough damage to this stack, and you can really dish it out.

I'm sure there are more strats you could use. The best way to find them is to play without using [[Black Sabbath]] for a while and find something that works for you.

'''~DOLZero'''

[[Seraph's Devils Guide]]