Loth Necromancy Rework

24 votes

The current Loth Necromancy has 3 huge issues. It's too hard to get the Risen, they're too expensive and they actively penalize you by way of momentum.

To fix this I suggest this rework:
Make it so that all Loth wielders have an innate skill called "Necromancy".
This skill makes it so that at the start of each battle a single stack of [X] Risen spawn in on an unoccupied troop spawn on the battlefield. These troops does not exist out of combat, nor do they grant essence or trigger enemy momentum.
They'd be disposable in every sense of the word as they stop existing when the battle ends, and a fresh batch is spawned in the next combat, every combat.

This has several benefits.
(1) The necromancer could stop being a mana battery and could be made to either increase the numbers of Risen in your Risen stack, or should it be dead make a new one.
(2) The Undead would be a core part of Loth identity and not just a niche army choice.
(3) Undead-centric armies would be able to use Risen too.

Suggestion Suggested by: ζ͜͡Anders, Loth Enthusiast (13 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 10 Jan • Comments: 2

Comments: 2

15 Jul, '22
palko
Imagine being so close to lvl 3 in arcana magic but instead of It you get necromancy 2 an eye for amber 1 and more command xDDD

I only see 3 options here:
1. Make the risen a bit better.
2. Keep them as a theme token that serves no practical purpose whatsoever.
3. Nerf Rana fgs.

Thanks for reading. Love u all.
20 Jul, '22
vanHooijdonk
Well, the suggestion should be only valid if the Wielder has a free stack - then in battle it's occupied by the Risen.
Necromancy skill should be optional somehow; if you're not interested in this Risen - the skill is useless.

To make Necromancy usefull - number of troops should depend on Wielder's level, quality - on Necromancy skill.
Getting troops for free is OP, but if Necromancy level 1 gives kinda 2*(Wielder's level) + 5 rats (or any 1st tier unit), and Nectomancy 3 - 2*(W lvl) tier 5 units - that might work (like Necromancy in HOMM3). Those units can be just unique new, bringing fast unit at 1lvl, tanky at 2 lvl, essense-providing at 3 lvl for instance.