Troll Woods question

[fartaholic]

Is there an optimal concentration for Troll Woods? That is to say, do I get a bigger benefit from turning every single forest in my territory into a Troll Wood or does it not matter? What about the Druid's various forest enchantments?

[Fox]

The more troll woods you have, the more freespawn you get. Since the troll king is based in gureilla warfare, this is really helpful most of the time.

Also, the druids should do his best to enchant as many AF as possible, so then he can use his Vegobrats to pick up the lord of the wild spawn to have many smaller armies to control the map. The enchantments also make it far harder to attack the AF for other players.

[carn112004]

Originally posted by Oedipus Rekt:

Is there an optimal concentration for Troll Woods? That is to say, do I get a bigger benefit from turning every single forest in my territory into a Troll Wood or does it not matter?

While more troll woods just spawn more, the actual question is what to spend you're fungus own.
- each troll wood costs 150

- upgrading goblin shamans to elvel 2 spells cost 150, so 1 troll wood, upgrading troll shamans to level 3 spells cost 750, so 5 troll woods

- making a troll (read: troll king, troll mum or a troll shaman) immune to non-magic weapons costs 1500 or 10 troll woods

- a dragon costs 1000 fungus or 7 troll woods (plus 200 gold)

There are each situations in which one option is rather strong (e.g. invulnerable vs baron, senator, barbarian; invulnerable vs anything, if you happen to have a luck sword, an antimagic amulet and a fire resistance misc; or maybe dragon vs mr attacks if a regen amulet is available) so in general you just have to evaluate what you gain most from.

Originally posted by Oedipus Rekt:

What about the Druid's various forest enchantments?

get them all whereever possible, they are highly cost efficient in my opinion.

[niddhoger]

Troll woods only generate freespawn on places with corpses. If nothing has died on that spot, you gain nothing by converting it. Worse, if a heat wave burns down 10 of your troll woods that never spawned a single creature between them... well, that could have been a dragon.

[carn112004]

Originally posted by niddhoger:

Troll woods only generate freespawn on places with corpses. If nothing has died on that spot, you gain nothing by converting it.

I never observed that. Actually, i never saw a troll wood that did not produce anything in the long run.. The only thing corpses seem to be relevant for is for spawning of death fungus.