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Originally posted by Xen:
Now how can it be a pain in the ass with Mislead cheese or Shield of Reflection?
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Trust me, it CAN and DOES still manage to be a pain in the ass. Even in melee, those Sahuagin will punch through an AC of -9 like it wasn't even there (75% odds of making each attack), and do 1D8+15 damage per hit. 3 attacks per round, I think, so even taking on the entire damn city
one stinkin' fish at a time means an average of 46 damage per round. Now when you factor in the fact that Potions of Extra Healing heal 27 hp, and you can drink a maximum of one per round, you've soon got to reach the inevitable conclusion that...
If you go to the Improved Sahuagin City, you'll spend most of the time
sucking.
But that's not even the point! What kind of battle is it that can only be won by giving the enemies
no chance at all??? Use Mislead and butcher them like lobotomized fish while they stand there and let you do it? How realistic is that? Or use the Shield of Cheese and lead them into melee
one at a time, pretending that they're not intelligent enough to attack you en masse? Yet tactics like these are pretty much the
only way to fight them--even if you buff your party to the gills and soften up the target area with artillery first, you've still got a good chance of losing a party member or two in every skirmish. Oh boy, what fun.
NOTE: Tactics isn't all bad. Some elements, like the Generic Archer and the Improved North Forest, are quite balanced, and excellent.
[ 12-12-2003, 05:26 PM: Message edited by: SixOfSpades ]