Bone collector losing its stacks?

[beelzebubbaphomet666]

So ive been collecting cadavers for 30 turns. finally got about 20. so i start a battle with a independent group to get my bone collectors to eat all my cadavers. after the battle the bone collector lost all the stacks is this normal? for bone collectors to loose their bone collecting stacks? The nacromancer has no tank if its normal

[MrNo]

The buff from eating corpses does not last past the end of battle, correct. Man can you just imagine how insane it would be if it stacked forever?

[Iguana-on-a-stick]

Hm? The bonus is only for the duration of the battle, just like any other buff. It was never supposed to last outside that. That would be quite overpowered.

Edit: Ninja'd. But at least this proves we're agreed. :-)

[beelzebubbaphomet666]

Thats a bummer. Was really looking forward to do a imba unit. spend the whole day at work thinking how i can make it. abit disapointed

[Iguana-on-a-stick]

Creating super units IS fun, but it's not that easy.

The only things that give permanent bonuses are strategic spells, empire upgrades, mystic city upgrades, alignment-based specialisations, (shadowborn, etc) and racial governance upgrades. And medals, of course. You can combine those to create some very strong units.

For necromancers, you can do some fun stuff with life steal stacking. Looking for a city with both a Crystal Tree and a Dungeon can let you build some really strong Death Bringers. (they get killing momentum, potentially letting you ghoul 2 units in a single round.)

A personal favourite of mine is undead Goblin Butchers with triple life stealing and attacks that deal physical, blight, lightning and spirit damage. And then when they die, reanimators can just bring them back.

[pipo.p]

Also comes to mind Grey Guard Halfling troops with their double chance to crit, and particularly Eagle Riders who stack the double chance (as I guess). All you need then is a nice combo that help keeping them merryful.

With the More Ancestral Spirits mod, you can get permanent Ancestral Spirits as a site reward (Life Spring). Yes it is a mod, hence a cheating, but it's fun to have a unit that have both spirit and physical strong protections (one of them through levelling up, that never happens with a combat summon), and they fit so well to an Archdruid.