Is Fire Pot useful for anything?

[Lampros]

Like, is it strong against any particular enemy? I am not sure what the purpose of this thing is...?

[Elder Borjoyzee]

Area denial. Also it's goodish against enemies with little or no armor. Can inflict burn wounds. I found them to be a bit decent against the Southern armies since their armor isn't very strong and they rely on nimble.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by Elder Borjoyzee:

Area denial. Also it's goodish against enemies with little or no armor. Can inflict burn wounds. I found them to be a bit decent against the Southern armies since their armor isn't very strong and they rely on nimble.

Ah, okay. Do you know how much damage they do?

[JCSato]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Originally posted by Elder Borjoyzee:

Area denial. Also it's goodish against enemies with little or no armor. Can inflict burn wounds. I found them to be a bit decent against the Southern armies since their armor isn't very strong and they rely on nimble.

Ah, okay. Do you know how much damage they do?

Between 15-30. x3 against schrats, 1/3 against skeletons, 2/3 against serpents/bros with the serpent mantle attachment.

[Glorious Comrade]

15-30 damage when first used, then same damage for 2 turns. It burns armor first, once armor is burned off, it damage health, and it will cause burn type wounds when damaging health.

I found it invaluable when fighting the goblin city, or just goblin fortress in general. Goblin have low armor and low health, and in defense battle, they bunch up on a hill top with choke points. each fire pot can easily damage 3 - 4 enemies for 3 turns.

[turtle225]

It's free damage in the opening rounds.

Also, the damage is not mitigated by Nimble making it particularly good against Nimble enemies (and particularly dangerous to your own Nimble bros).

[thebadman]

Makes gobo city trivial last time I heard...

[Lampros]

Originally posted by JCSato:

Between 15-30. x3 against schrats, 1/3 against skeletons, 2/3 against serpents/bros with the serpent mantle attachment.

Originally posted by Glorious Comrade:

15-30 damage when first used, then same damage for 2 turns. It burns armor first, once armor is burned off, it damage health, and it will cause burn type wounds when damaging health.

I found it invaluable when fighting the goblin city, or just goblin fortress in general. Goblin have low armor and low health, and in defense battle, they bunch up on a hill top with choke points. each fire pot can easily damage 3 - 4 enemies for 3 turns.

Originally posted by turtle225:

It's free damage in the opening rounds.

Also, the damage is not mitigated by Nimble making it particularly good against Nimble enemies (and particularly dangerous to your own Nimble bros).

That's a lot more than I expected. Wow. I guess I will start using them from now on. Thanks, guys!

[Nerdgasm]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Like, is it strong against any particular enemy? I am not sure what the purpose of this thing is...?

Great for throwing over walled fortifications, sends the enemy archers into disarray. You only need one or two and can completely shift the battle in your favour.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by Nerdgasm:

Great for throwing over walled fortifications, sends the enemy archers into disarray. You only need one or two and can completely shift the battle in your favour.

Got it. Do you usually have a front-liner throw it?

[ForceEcho]

They let a very average squad take on goblin camps in the early to mid game

[Nerdgasm]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Got it. Do you usually have a front-liner throw it?

I like having them on a cleaver duelist, that way they can use it in their off hand. I think of it in terms of opportunity cost vs. raw damage, where a single throw of a fire pot can cause the enemy to waste their turns repositioning. It's like a doing a fork in chess that forces the opponent to react. They're an expensive "I win" button.