What is the most underevaluated spell in Total Chaos?

[Im>bE]

My guess would be "Elf Boots"
The spell that makes your wizard able to escape any conflict.

When the enemy creatures are on a distance
I always think that I wont have any use for a pair of Elf Boots,
so I usually discard elf boots from my spellbook,
and ALWAYS regret it later on.

That is exactly what happened in my last game.


First I cast a druid, because I like to have magicians in my party.

2 of the 3 cpu wizards that was on a team against me
cast "Double" which means their next spells will be cast twice.
and they cast some horses, ghouls
and 2 of an other creature that they immediately cloaked
so that I didnt see what they were.


I had cast a grizzly bear and a king cobra by now,
and had discarded any "Elf Boots" spell as usual,
and these were even WINGED elf boots.

Then I cast a pool of life in my 'backyard'
so that I could boost my creatures lifeforces
to prepare them against the horde of enemy creatures coming towards us.
And that went well for many turns

I noticed that I had as many as 3 replicate spells
in my spellbook,
and when a "Sword of Sassenrath" spell became available to me,
I made a plan which was succesfull.

I Cast "Sword of Sassenrath" on my druid
who now had a high lifeforce.
And now with this spell, he had a good fighting ability as well
and could attack undeads.

I then replicated him 3 times
so that I now had 4 strong and skilled druids
who begun casting lightning bolts on the enemy.
And I used them to attack the undead creatures
that was queing to kill us all.

One of the enemy's cloaked creatures
attacked my wizard for several turns,
so I cast "Ball Lightning" on it to harm its combat ability
so that it was less of a threat.

Then, out of the blue, when things were looking good for me,
an enemy rhinocerous advanced right onto my wizard
from an unguarded path.

I had not cast any defensive spells on my wizard yet
(like a pair of elf boots)
So my wizard was stuck trying to fight the rhino.
Rhinos are very powerfull creatures
so my unboosted wizard had no chance of killing it.

The 2nd most important thing in Total Chaos is to protect your wizard.
without your wizard, you will lose everything,
So I cast a heal spell on my wounded wizard
to buy some time. (I saw no other choice)

3 of my druids was busy elsewhere, so couldnt help me,
and 1 boosted druid is of little help against a rhino.

On my last turn alive I cast "Recovery Boost" on my poor wizard
but a ghoul helped the rhino kill me.

If only I had a pair of elf boots on my wizard's feet,
I could escape the rhino and attack it with all my strong druids.



Do you think any other spell is more underevaluated than Elf Boots?

[ChaosLord]

Im>bE wrote:

I had cast a grizzly bear and a king cobra by now,
and had discarded any "Elf Boots" spell as usual,
and these were even WINGED elf boots.

You discarded Winged Elf Boots!?!?!
WahahahahAHAAHA! :lol: :roflmao:

Do u have any idea how hard is to make a pair of boots like that?

The only reason they are cheap is because those evil elves use child slave labor in china.
:hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer:

I noticed that I had as many as 3 replicate spells in my spellbook,

:-o
You should be able win with spells like that! :banana:

I Cast "Sword of Sassenrath" on my druid

Sassenrath is my #2 greatest hero of all time,
and a mightily powerful wizard!

...
Then, out of the blue, when things were looking good for me,
an enemy rhinocerous advanced right onto my wizard
from an unguarded path.

You know Total Chaos is a strategy game don't u? :-D

Part of the strategy is guarding the paths to your Wizard,
as tne AI players are not completely stupid.

I had not cast any defensive spells on my wizard yet
(like a pair of elf boots)
So my wizard was stuck trying to fight the rhino.
Rhinos are very powerfull creatures
so my unboosted wizard had no chance of killing it.

A Rhinoceros can take out a Jeep Wrangler(tm) no problem.
I saw it on the Discovery Channel; Explore your world. :-)

The 2nd most important thing in Total Chaos is to protect your wizard.

 :huh:
2nd Most Important!?!?

What is the 1st?!?

without your wizard, you will lose everything,

Yes, like "the game".  :-D

I am curious, would your full name happen to be "Imbe the Insane" by any chance? :insane: :crazy: :lol:

Do you think any other spell is more underevaluated than Elf Boots?

I always discard Orcs, Ogres and Growths when I possibly should not.  Dunno.   :huh:

[Im>bE]

>2nd Most Important!?!?

>What is the 1st?!?

YOU DONT KNOW!!!!??

Kill and/or destroy all enemies b4 they kill you, ofcourse!!!


>I am curious, would your full name happen to be "Imbe the Insane" by any chance?

Yes, but it isn't.
Somehow I think the umbrella is, Or something about that rabbit there.
Im not sure... what was the question again?


>I always discard Orcs, Ogres and Growths when I possibly should not. Dunno.

OH MY... discarding creatures... now Ive heard that too...

[ChaosLord]

I throw Fauns away too.  Is that ok?

[sazarac]

*I* know what the most under rated spell in Total Chaos is.

The "Brevity" spell.

Learn it, love it, for gawd's sake USE it!!! :whack:

Nice new avatar there Im>bE. I like it.

 Victory the Brief

[Harlbro]

I've just downloaded this game. Man, this game is sick! Luckily, my 040/25 A1200 just manages to run it ok but it took 15 mins to load (but it thought 7 mins?). Ok, so I lost my first game against the computer. But it is 1:30am in the morning. Must be sleep time soon Better have a look at the docs in the morning... I wanna know how the computer turned my big, beautiful, yellow dragon into a weedy little vulture!! GRRRR!

[Turambar]

I like the spell that lets you advertise your game at every available oppurtunity.

[ChaosLord]

Harlbro wrote:
Luckily, my 040/25 A1200 just manages to run it ok but it took 15 mins to load (but it thought 7 mins?).

:lol:
LOL!!!  It doesn't take 15 mins to load.  It takes 15 mins to decompress the sound samples with the dogslow ixesux sound decompression program from aminet.

If you had an Apollo 50 Mhz 060 then it would have really been 7 mins.  Less if you had a Blizzard 060.

My friend (who is lurking on here somewhere) said it took 2 hours on his 3000 Mhz Intel Pentium UAE.
:lol:  :roflmao:  :lol:

Now that the hundreds of sound samples are decompressed, the game will load more quicklier.

 Ok, so I lost my first game against the computer. But it is 1:30am in the morning. Must be sleep time soon Better have a look at the docs in the morning... I wanna know how the computer turned my big, beautiful, yellow dragon into a weedy little vulture!! GRRRR!

Hehehe here are some possibilities:
1: Perhaps the evil enemy wizard cast Alter Reality on your Golden Dragon.
2: Most Likely your dragon was standing on top of a dead Vulture when the evil enemy wizard hit your dragon with a Vengeance or Justice or Dark Power spell.  If u use one of those spells to kill something, the victim gets whatever it was standing on as a consolation prize.  This means those megapowerful spells must be used strategucally.

In my first game, my dragon got turned into an orc and so did my Harpy.  I was sooo mad!
Be happy u got a Vulture! They are much better than Orcs.  :-)

Never trust a CPU Wizard!  They have been programmed with AE (Artificial Evil) and will use the power of a Motorola M68040 32bit processor to do horrible things to you!  Kill them quickly!
   :destroy:

[sazarac]

Turambar,
 
-I like the spell that lets you advertise your game at every available oppurtunity.-

This would be the most OVER used spell...however, it also seems to be the most effective.

Do you play?

 Victory

[Harlbro]

 Ok, so I lost my first game against the computer. But it is 1:30am in the morning. Must be sleep time soon Better have a look at the docs in the morning... I wanna know how the computer turned my big, beautiful, yellow dragon into a weedy little vulture!! GRRRR!

Hehehe here are some possibilities:
1: Perhaps the evil enemy wizard cast Alter Reality on your Golden Dragon.
2: Most Likely your dragon was standing on top of a dead Vulture when the evil enemy wizard hit your dragon with a Vengeance or Justice or Dark Power spell.  If u use one of those spells to kill something, the victim gets whatever it was standing on as a consolation prize.  This means those megapowerful spells must be used strategucally.

Yeah, it was a Justice spell!

In my first game, my dragon got turned into an orc and so did my Harpy.  I was sooo mad!
Be happy u got a Vulture! They are much better than Orcs.  :-)

Never trust a CPU Wizard!  They have been programmed with AE (Artificial Evil) and will use the power of a Motorola M68040 32bit processor to do horrible things to you!  Kill them quickly!
   :destroy:

I was a bit confused, what should I kill first? His hydra? His zombie? (The zombie ended up killing me cause my griffins and eagles couldn't touch it.) Or do I head straight for the enemy wizard? Then there is also these independents that seem to get in the way!!

[ChaosLord]

I was a bit confused, what should I kill first? His hydra? His zombie?

You must strategize: Which is the biggest threat to u right at this moment?

 (The zombie ended up killing me cause my griffins and eagles couldn't touch it.)

Zombies only deal 2 points of damage so u should have plenty of time to kill him.

Zombies are sooooo ez to kill: They have 0 Intelligence and 0 Magic Resistance so any spell that deals that kind of damage will kill it instantly.  For Example:
Magic Bolt
Lightning
Brain Drain
Several others....

 Or do I head straight for the enemy wizard? Then there is also these independents that seem to get in the way!!

Try to let the independents fight the enemy wizards
or if u r having probs learning the game then u can ez just turn off the independents.
Independents are created by the Monster Generators.
On the Setup Screen 2 just set GENERATORS to 0.

The game will then be very ez and even a newbie like u can win!  :-D

[Harlbro]

 (The zombie ended up killing me cause my griffins and eagles couldn't touch it.)

Zombies only deal 2 points of damage so u should have plenty of time to kill him.

Zombies are sooooo ez to kill: They have 0 Intelligence and 0 Magic Resistance so any spell that deals that kind of damage will kill it instantly.  For Example:
Magic Bolt
Lightning
Brain Drain
Several others....

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The zombie was souped up cause it was dealing 15 damage a pop!

I tried it again today and managed to kill the other wizard. The dragon nest in the corner spewed a number of terrifying beasts in the meantime. The game was over then, the timed demo finished - saved by the bell! I'll play around with the settings some more. I'm very impressed with the music and sound effects, some are quite funny! It's very well done. In fact it reminds me of Magic The Gathering cross Moria. The graphics look a lot like Moria with gameplay like Magic (Moria: what an insanely cool game that (still) is!)

[ChaosLord]

The zombie was souped up cause it was dealing 15 damage a pop!

The Wizard must have equipped his Zomboe with a Chainsaw or enchanted it with a Combat spell.  Either way it works out good for you because when u play ur Lightning card onto it he loses 2 cards (the Zombie creature card and the Enchantment card).

I tried it again today and managed to kill the other wizard.

You are a 1st level wizard now!  :-D

I'm very impressed with the music and sound effects, some are quite funny!

Glad u like them.  :-)   I will pass that on to the SoundFX dept. if I ever talk to them again.

It's very well done.

Yes I quite agree with you. :-)

[ChaosLord]

Turambar wrote:
I like the spell that lets you advertise your game at every available oppurtunity.

You mean like this?  :-D