Black Ark

[noobishtactic]

Hey, what do you think about the black ark. Do you use it (how?), do you think its useless or something in between?

I love that it's in the game, but I think its lacking severly in it's current implementation. You basicly get an army that cant fight offensive and cant even reinforce your normal armys in battle. Dont get me wrong i like its support abilities but i dont think its worth an additional 15% upkeep of all my units. Maybe im using it wrong?

[Goubios]

i used it as an mobile base to hit deep in HE territory, 2 full stacks of my army with the ark to reinforce them after the initial battles until i built a territory....

[Robert]

It's so strong, it makes it so you can get more slaves, the upgraded arty is great. Also with the added Regen from the warship it's amazing

Remember it can go and collect treasure as well and it's faster than normal lords (I think)

[Goubios]

i didnt upgrade the arty...... is it worth it?

[FknMental]

you probably can change the units from the ark to normal land armys or not ? didnt play Dark Elfs yet, but i mean the feature to swap units between armys. Im pretty sure you can do that with Black Arcs too, wich probably makes them extremely usefull for expeditions

[Goubios]

yes to be exact before landing i fill the black ark with a full stack of units in order to be safe while travelled and just before landing i summoned a lord swap units and land on High Elves mainland

[Empiro]

I agree that the current implementation is bad. I got the money upgrades too, but it's really not worth it.

15% of my army upkeep in the late game is like 2000-3000 gold per turn. That's not counting the upkeep of the units to protect the Ark itself. There's no way the bonuses it gives you makes up for that.

Plus, while recruitment is cool. Literally every other race has global recruitment.

You can transfer units on and off of it, but it leaves your Ark super vulnerable. All in all, cool idea, but unfun implementation.

[Nectul]

I love the black arks but I just ran into a problem I'm wondering if it's happened to anyone else. One of mine is apparently stuck somehow. It's in Dread Expansion stance on the border between The Black Ocean and Western Gulf of Lustria just above the Golden Ziggurat. I can't click it out of the stance so I can't move it anywhere. It's been stuck there a couple of turns now. Black Ocean is controlled and the Gulf is contested. I'm going to try and get control of it and maybe that somehow bugged it up. Just wondering if someone has that problem?

[Nectul]

And never mind I just realised I'm a dumdum -.- I'm having a land army recruiting a war hydra from the ark which is why it is stuck... Problem solved!

[Purin]

I think the Black Ark is cool. I like the idea of having a mega ship around that supports a large area. I mainly use it to increase auto resolve and recruit. Though I am not exactly sure as to how to swap units or whatever. Can the Ark army reinforce during battle?