by Lorelei on 25 Mar 2009, 14:51
My personal fvourite is the phoenix
Relatively low mana cost (especially whem you play the unpatched version of the game),
usable for scouting and occupying place of power on high walls (in levels like Joyous Guard or Thebes),
When you kill one you get a free infernoshower, which does great damage. This makes them flying inferno bombs.
A flock of 3 or 4 phoenixes can conquer easily a PoP when guarded by a large cereature such as crocodiles, vampires, trolls, and even champs of law and chaos.
They are excellent mage killers. As soon as any opponent runs out of mana, you can suroound your target by a flock. If he escapes, you can hold him in place with the levitate spell and the flock can still attack the enemy wizzard, since phoenixes can fly! No escape possible.
There only weakness is their low magical resistance, so their minds are easy to controll with the subversion spell.
Last week, in a 3hour long battle against the overlord on wizzard difficulty (unpatched version) this proved for me to be the best strategy to inflict a bit of damage to this powerplaying bastard. The chaos lord's lucifer spell was easily removed by disenchant or burry, when he casted it on undead creatures, which happens often. I managed to use the neutral lord's chain lighting spell in my own advantage, since it triggerded the phoenix bombs even moren faster. The lord of law was a bigger problem. Often he used judgement to scatter my flock of phoenixes. In this way there inferno bomb was not triggered. So the only possibility was to send in one after the other. Unfortunately he mindcontrolled one out of 2 or 3 phoenixes, so it took ages to kill him. But in the end it worked. Probably in version 1.1 this tactic will cost tons of mana. I will try this soon.
