Alzorath's Phantasm Guide - Revision history

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Alzorath at 14:50, 26 October 2007

2007-10-26T14:50:12Z

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‎Nether Units

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‎Nether Units

Alzorath: /* Some Key Notes */

2006-10-20T08:24:42Z

‎Some Key Notes

Alzorath at 05:21, 14 May 2006

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Alzorath: /* Spells and Items */

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‎Spells and Items

Alzorath at 23:25, 13 May 2006

2006-05-13T23:25:06Z

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Alzorath: Alzorath's Kickass Starter Guide moved to Alzorath's Phantasm Guide

2006-05-13T20:41:55Z

Alzorath's Kickass Starter Guide moved to Alzorath's Phantasm Guide

Ninarx at 20:25, 13 May 2006

2006-05-13T20:25:55Z

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 ==Introduction==
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 '''Note 4''' The stack I gave is by far not the only stack, I was merely using it as an example of working through your stacks - metagame comes into this train of thought even though I didn't include it - and also your preferred style of play, but you should always have a thought process of 'how can I do enough damage', 'how can I keep from taking more damage', 'how can I take max land', 'what can I do to compensate for weaknesses if anything', and finally 'what items and spells will work best with this?' - if you hit a major snag in any of these, you will want to loop back in steps to find out where you can fix it and proceed onward - be sure to also take into consideration those mages around you - think about what they're probably stacking, then run a battle through your head between your setup and theirs - do you win?
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 [[Lich]]: ground soakers, pop eaters, fairly decent units although you can usually include something better for cheaper unless you're hunting greens.
-[[Ghoul]]: Nice fodder units, you can get them from Blood Ritual (and yes - Blood Ritual is dispellable, try a couple times with 1 mana, will usually dispell on the 3rd-5th try)**CAUTION:low mana dispell does not work now** - these have the same weaknesses as zombies, except these actually deal some damage (at the cost of a higher upkeep).
+[[Ghoul]]: Nice fodder units, you can get them from Blood Ritual (and yes - Blood Ritual is dispellable, try a couple times with 1 mana, will usually dispell on the 3rd-5th try)**CAUTION:LOW MANA DISPELL DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE** - these have the same weaknesses as zombies, except these actually deal some damage (at the cost of a higher upkeep).
 [[Zombie]]/[[Skeleton]]: Nice little early fodders, but won't last you in the long run, black uses them cause they get them with Black Sabbath, with blue it's just not worth even the 1 turn to summon them usually - use ghouls instead.

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 [[Lich]]: ground soakers, pop eaters, fairly decent units although you can usually include something better for cheaper unless you're hunting greens.
-[[Ghoul]]: Nice fodder units, you can get them from Blood Ritual (and yes - Blood Ritual is dispellable, try a couple times with 1 mana, will usually dispell on the 3rd-5th try) - these have the same weaknesses as zombies, except these actually deal some damage (at the cost of a higher upkeep).
+[[Ghoul]]: Nice fodder units, you can get them from Blood Ritual (and yes - Blood Ritual is dispellable, try a couple times with 1 mana, will usually dispell on the 3rd-5th try)**CAUTION:low mana dispell does not work now** - these have the same weaknesses as zombies, except these actually deal some damage (at the cost of a higher upkeep).
 [[Zombie]]/[[Skeleton]]: Nice little early fodders, but won't last you in the long run, black uses them cause they get them with Black Sabbath, with blue it's just not worth even the 1 turn to summon them usually - use ghouls instead.

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 ==Unit Advice==
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 [[Leviathan]]: Weak to fire, and a little bit to lightning too. these are amazing soakers - which are of use even on offense to push down your damage dealing stacks to focus on the soft centers. Just because they're weak to something doesn't mean they can't handle it - you just have to know how to make up for this weakness.

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 Platinum Hand of Healing + Satchel of Mist: By reducing losses, you reduce the amount you heal, this can cost you the battle by having them do more damage than you need to block them, and healing being insufficient to keep them from winning.<br>
 Battle Lust + Satchel of Mist: You reduce your own units accuracies, while pumping their damage and lowering their life. This doesn't end well - you'll usually lose more power because reducing accuracy will drastically reduce your damage (without any other modifiers - 10% accuracy is the same as 33% AP boost for every attack - battle lust only boosts primary/counter).
 ==Stacking Basics==

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 Now, I'm going to take a step back, and assume you haven't reached this 3000-5000 land mark, and we'll look at how to reach it, and sustain it when you get there. I'll cover 3 points: Gaining Land Efficiently, Defending your land, and 'the metagame'.
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 Ok first - gaining land efficiently. at under 3000 acres, this involves a LOT of attacking (if you're thinking less than double digits, you're thinking too small). I know it's hard to see yourself doing 30-40 attacks a day, and still maintaining an army, you'll be able to build up to that over time - test out doing maybe 10-15 attacks in a day while below 3000, doesn't matter if you win or lose, you're just getting used to what it feels like - aim for 25+ the next day.
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 Now that may be a lot to soak in, but it's just general basic strategy (similar stuff can be said for every other color - just the names of units and spells/items change).
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 Next we'll be going onto topic #2 - Defending your land. As a hunting blue - this is simple - drop all the disbandables (there is a reason I didn't say vamps and [[wraith]]s this early big grin) - and summon up a massive army of [[djinni]], save yourself about 150k mana after casting them. Slap on a solid defensive spell and item (I like Satchel/[[Lovesick]], or Satchel/[[Feet of Hermes]] - mechanics about why these work can be found in my FAQ).
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 Defending your land down low is simple - simply don't take more than 10% damage, above is one of the easiest methods.
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 Topic #3 - the metagame, the metagame changes as the players change, and you have to learn to adapt to it - it is best to start testing your units out in different situations - see how those levs do vs hd, or sals, or chimera, or whatever - find out why. Look at the mechanics if you must (although after a while it is better to do it by gut rather than sheer numbers). I've included some unit tips about the units, but you won't know just how much in any direction you can take them without testing or crunching obscenely large amounts of numbers.