[quote who="webusver" reply="290" id="3440173"] Quoting aerowreck, reply 281- if Parrotmath or Hellions is reading this, female henchmen (henchwomen?) are not considered female by some of the loot I presume is generated by Black Market Bazaar. Also, these same female henchmen cannot ride a horse, just a warg, in my experience. Why they are not considered females? They are KingdomFemale but not HenchmanMale
Hrm...I know I completed this one successfully in my last game. I do have CoS installed, though, so not sure if that modifies the quest at all.
[quote who="csac1979" reply="7" id="3439419"]So a mage with high initiative could become invulnerable???[/quote] Except for Ranged attacks Area effects (dragon/drake breath, etc.) Spells Creatures immune to fear Basically it's only a good defense against melee, and there only against attackers who can't get past the effect.
The Tech Report has a pretty good build guide; this is from Christmas, so some of the variables (e.g. AMD GPU pricing) have changed, but otherwise it's a good start: http://techreport.com/review/25743/tr-christmas-2013-system-guide/4
Basically, they're somewhat less good than a low-level Hero or Henchman with no magic paths would be at the stage of the game you can train them. I tend to find the warrior/assassin/defenders pretty underwhelming at that point. They can be good for a few special purposes, if you're willing to babysit them for a few levels, and you don't already have another hero that can perform that special need. They start with a higher base initiative than regular units.  
Pretty much (although the multi-unit version the Undead faction can get by exploiting their Undying Curse trait are much nicer [e digicons]}:)[/e] ) They do make good governors though, so I end up building a lot as Empire. Now Henchmen, on the other hand, are worth their own weight in gold...but that's kind of Altar's "thing".
FWIW, the trait only affects the actual quest experience, not the experience from any battles performed in pursuit of the quest. Usually this is a fairly negligible amount.
It's probably a bug; you (shouldn't) get new champions for re-crossing a fame threshold you've already passed. The "next champion" message should indicate where you next threshold that you haven't yet crossed is. I'm guessing that if you're training torchbearers, you have already crossed the 100 and 200 fame thresholds too, so it really shouldn't have had the 50 fame message either. Did you do this in a real game, or is this in cheat mo
[quote who="starkers" reply="13" id="3437894"]Quoting GeomanNL, reply 12 Check the speed on the SSD package. Originally I intended to buy a 120 GB SSD, but I read on the package that a 250 GB version is twice as fast. So I bought the 250 GB instead. Given that logic, that larger SSds are faster, doubly so, even, my next one has to be the 1TB Samsung 840 EVO Series. Shoot! Who knows, a 2TB might even be available by the time I get around to affording one.[/quot
[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="31" id="3437834"]Does anyone have experience doing this with a seagate barracuda 500gb 7200.11 drive?[/quote] I don't have any experience with these particular drives, but I've previously (read a few many years ago now) used SpinRite to try to repair hard drives that were not accessible normally. https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm <p
[quote who="Jafo" reply="33" id="3437819"]Ultimately the plan is to avoid divorce by relinquishing one of them to 'recycling' via a thrift shop. - there's only so many computers you can have at any one time...and currently it's 7 ...[/quote] You've heard the stereotype about old ladies and cats. Old techies collect computers and computer carcasses. It's only a matter of time before they're the next stereotype (if not already.) (I won&#
[quote who="csac1979" reply="1" id="3437577"] I have the following question: What happens if the Sion becomes a 6 man troop? (why not a 9 man troop???) => Life, Damage and so on... 6 x Damage?? So a Warrior can heal himself 6x6 per hit?[/quote] It's not a 9 unit troop because the game is configured for max 6 unit troop (although I believe this may be moddable.) Note that Butchermen, Assassin demons, etc. are also limited to 6 units per tr
[quote who="alaknebs" reply="15" id="3437484"] apparently... later today... but why beta drivers? pfft http://www.techspot.com/news/55500-amd-officially-launches-mantle-new-driver-and-patches-available-soon.html [/quote] Also, from that linked article: [quote] ...although Oxide Games Mantle-enabled '
[quote who="starkers" reply="17" id="3437389"]So is the 1500 watt PSU worth the expenditure? SHIT YEAH!!!!!! [/quote] Ok, I'll grant that your setup as described probably warrants a larger than average PSU. However, I still think (admittedly eyeballing without having taken the time to search out and add up the draw for all of your devices) that 1500 will be overkill. Overkill in a PSU means that it will run less efficiently, and thereby use more energy (== more h
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[quote who="starkers" reply="12" id="3437223"]Also, given today's hardware, a 500w PSU is borderline average to totally inadequate, so given its age, and the danger of it taking out your other hardware if/when it dies, it would be wise to invest in a new, higher rated one sooner rather than later. It would also be wise to get something more powerful than you actually need... to allow for depreciation over time and accomodate future expansions/upgrades. I have a Silv
[quote who="kona0197" reply="2" id="3437080"]Does Realtek offer a driver? Their site is confusing![/quote] Repeating disclaimer: I have no first hand knowledge of this product/chipset, and the info that the product in question is using this chipset is based on a quick skim of some linux forum posts - in no way an official source. Probably the reason that Belkin doesn't have a Win8 driver is that Realtek hasn't given them a baseline one to re-brand. According to R
I have no first hand knowledge, but if no one posts a better solution, you could try the workarounds listed here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/39392-43-belkin-wireless-adapter-driver-windows in short 1) If you upgraded from 7, point to your previous driver (if you didn't delete the backup) 2) Use the default Windows " conceptronic 54Mbps Usb adapter" dr
[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="21" id="3436987"]Leto II could follow the consequences of his decisions into infinity[/quote] I may be getting Dune novels confused, but wasn't the intent of setting up the whole elaborate situation supposed to create a chain of events so that he (and any possessing similar faculties) could not follow the consequences any longer, thereby letting humanity control its own destiny without t
I[quote who="csac1979" reply="17" id="3436970"]Due to your hints I spot that there is a new race called Undead with -2 to initiative AND there are two new benefits below which you can take with each race: graveyard and undead. So I can take humans as race with the benefit undead... But then I still don't understand why I should take the race Undead. It only gives a disadvantage of -2 initiative. Others like the ironeers give +30 spellresistance and so on. Thank you.[
[quote who="csac1979" reply="14" id="3436915"] I yesterday buyed the Addon with the Undead. But why should I take them??? The race-benefit is "-2 initiative". Wow!!! I didn't find the spell Morgannas Call, couldn't research it or whatever, altough I had Death-Magic. And I had two Death-shards!!! So what??[/quote] Did you create a custom faction, or use the default one? The spell comes with one of the new faction abilities and is imm
[quote who="Ericridge" reply="19" id="3436715"]-100% exp is a lie, Your hero using the sword still gains exp. Just a reduced amount, i'm not sure because i'm bad at math.[/quote] They will if they have some other modifier to XP. Some of the available modifiers include (not sure if this list is inclusive): Tutelage (+25%) Ring of Insight (+10%) Ring of Wisdom (+25%) Altarian blood (+10%) Having a Henchman unit with "B
It's also great at making people look even more awkward than they do already...
RE: the "shadow path" - you'd need to mod it separate from both existing Life and Death paths, as both of those are exclusively unlocked (i.e. you can only have one or the other) by the choice of Kingdom/Empire. For instance, if you subjugate a Kingdom sovereign with an Empire faction, you won't be able to increase their existing level of Life magic. This also affects which type of shard you get for Life/Death shards. Lots of Life/Death magics are much less effecti
The above "other items" changes seem good. Also - I know I've received a Dark Concoction in Fallen Enchantress (not LH) before. For the Scepter of Dominion - Loot for the Mastery Quest would be good - though the verbiage about sensing dragons from the quest end does not match the effects of the item. It is pretty OP though (though if you can complete the quest, you're pretty OP too by this point :P ) For the Fist of Vetrar - I'd read it as having been named a