@nicholasbarber8531

2 months ago

So I don't know if any of you three will ever see this, but just to give a heads up, there are 3 main ways to get around someone with a huge prestige lead you don't think you can catch up to. All of them but one revolve around one central point. If your stronghold goes down, you are out of the game. Doesn't matter if you have 3k prestige and are 1 turn away from victory, without your stronghold you are gone. But you can't harm a stronghold in a normal vendetta. 1. This one takes some amount of planning, but if you are able to declare a blood feud (which requires repeated vendettas), then you are able to attack pretty much whatever you want. Astaroth cannot do this using Demonic Razzia (I made a mistake initially). 2. Attack Pandemonium. If you attack that city, then you are declared a heretic by the conclave. A heretic is effectively in a blood feud with the ENTIRE GAME. You can fling a minimum level infernal affliction at Pandemonium, watch it fail to do any damage, and now you can attack whoever you want. However, heretics lose all prestige and cannot gain anymore unless they lose heretic status (very rare). But there is another way for heretics to win the game other than murder. 3. Take Pandemonium. If you successfully take and hold the city at any point, then the countdown to prestige victory (if there was one happening) stops. Instead, another timer (also 5 turns if I remember right) begins. If you can hold the city through those 5 turns then you win. What doe it matter how the Conclave wants to vote when you have a sword to their throat. :) These last two are particularly good. People, especially a frontrunner, tend to fixate on their prestige number, and forget about the lose conditions of Pandemonium and their stronghold. If you can take them off guard, you can take even a completely dominant player off the board. Hopefully this is helpful to someone :). Edit: I did testing, and I did find (although this could in theory be a bug) that if you target Pandemonium with a ritual that fails, you do not become excommunicated. However, if you target it with one that manages to do damage then you get excommunication, and if you attack Pandemonium with a legion (even a cheap one) then succeed or fail you are excommunicated.

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