Tartarus Sorceror
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Joined: Thursday, 31st May 2012, 15:45
Some Beogh Questions
- Can you give armour to orcs, or just weapons? I would love to be able to give swamp dragon armor or scarves of cloud immunity etc. Or a large shield, since I noticed (sample size: one) that the orc Beogh gave a shield to lasted the whole game.
- How does weapon base delay affect the friendly orc's attack speed? A warlord, for instance, hits for 32 + the weapon. Ought I interpret this as 32 slaying, and give a faster weapon? Beogh posts I've found suggest this is the case. Do higher HD orcs swing faster than lower HD orcs?
- I settled on giving a polearm if the orc has a non-reaching melee weapon or a ranged weapon, give a ranged weapon if it's already carrying a polearm. But I'm thinking now that I would be willing to give a non-reaching weapon if it had {rPois}. Will that do what I want it to?
- What can one do to encourage Beogh to name an orc? I had a warlord that surrendered to me at near-death stay nameless for a very long time, while random wizards and warriors got names.
- I found that after I abandoned my army for an extended time, such as when I did Swamp:4 myself because most of my knights had bladed weapons, when I recalled them the chaff had disappeared. Is there an abandonment time-out for followers, and is it a function of follower HD? After noticing that I obsessively recalled my army so I wouldn't be abandoned by my core bodyguard.
- What is the piety cost of smiting?