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Preacher

2009-08-01T21:55:53Z

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{{Infobox People
|Follower = Preacher
|Image = preacher.jpg
|Life = 8
|Strength = 3
|Scale = 3
|Special1 = Convert
|Special2 = Disturb Preaching
}}

Preachers are created by training [[Brave]]s or any other Follower in the [[Temple]]. When Preachers are standing idle, they worship your name and chant passages from your Holy Scriptures. If an Enemy Follower hears them, they will be entranced and will sit and listen to the Preacher praising your name. After a while, without interruption, the Enemy Follower will be Converted to your cause. Preachers will not perform construction tasks and, although you can command them to guard, they will only preach when an Enemy Follower approaches. They are happiest when extolling your word but do not have any effect on the Enemy [[Shaman]] or Preachers.

You will first encounter Preachers on the third level of the game amongst the [[Chumara]] tribe. The easiest and most ideal way to combat Preachers is to cast a [[Swarm]] spell at him, thus causing him to panic and interrupt his preaching. This will allow any of your [[Tribes]]men being [[Convert]]ed by the Preacher to suddenly realise who their real [[Shaman]] is and attack the Preacher for heresy. Another good way is to send multiple Preachers and/or your [[shaman]] over to attack the enemy Preacher and, the additional Preachers can reconvert any of your Tribesmen he Managed to talk over. The last way is to send [[firewarrior]]s after him to attack from a distance.

Most people don't play with Preachers in [[multiplayer]], you may sometimes find them already built in new mappacks.

The five ways to disturb a preacher:
# Send a preacher to attack him.
# Send your [[Shaman]] to attack him.
# Cast an [[offensive spell]] on him.
# Send [[firewarrior]]s to attack him from afar (they cannot be preached from afar)
# Mask a [[spy]] to the colour of the preacher and send the [[spy]] to attack him.

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Preacher

2009-08-01T21:55:07Z

Pernicious:

{{Infobox People
|Follower = Preacher
|Image = preacher.jpg
|Life = 8
|Strength = 3
|Scale = 3
|Special1 = Convert
|Special2 = Disturb Preaching
}}

Preachers are created by training [[Brave]]s or any other Follower in the [[Temple]]. When Preachers are standing idle, they worship your name and chant passages from your Holy Scriptures. If an Enemy Follower hears them, they will be entranced and will sit and listen to the Preacher praising your name. After a while, without interruption, the Enemy Follower will be Converted to your cause. Preachers will not perform construction tasks and, although you can command them to guard, they will only preach when an Enemy Follower approaches. They are happiest when extolling your word but do not have any effect on the Enemy [[Shaman]] or Preachers.

You will first encounter Preachers on the third level of the game amongst the [[Chumara]] tribe. The easiest and most ideal way to combat Preachers is to cast a [[Swarm]] spell at him, thus causing him to panic and interrupt his preaching. This will allow any of your [[Tribes]]men being [[Convert]]ed by the Preacher to suddenly realise who their real [[Shaman]] is and attack the Preacher for heresy. Another good way is to send multiple Preachers and/or your [[shaman]] over to attack the enemy Preacher and, the additional Preachers can reconvert any of your Tribesmen he Managed to talk over. The last way is to send [[firewarrior]]s after him to attack from a distance.

Most people don't play with Preachers in [[multiplayer]], you may sometimes find them already built in new mappacks.

The five ways to disturb a preacher:
# Send a preacher to attack him.
# Send your [[Shaman]] to attack him.
# Cast an [[offensive spell]] on him.
# Send [[firewarrior]]s to attack him from afar (they cannot be [[hypnotise]]d from afar)
# Mask a [[spy]] to the colour of the preacher and send the [[spy]] to attack him.

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Firewarrior

2009-08-01T21:12:19Z

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{{Infobox People
|Follower = Firewarrior
|Image = Firewarrior.jpg
|Life = 4
|Strength = 3
|Blast = 14
|Scale = 4
|Special1 = Blast Fireballs
}}

[[Firewarrior]]s are created by training [[Brave]]s or any other Follower in the [[Firewarrior Training Hut]]. These [[Followers]] are slower and weaker in hand to hand combat than [[Warrior]]s. They do, however, have the ability to cast the [[Blast]] spell and they can target buildings or the Enemy [[Followers]] from a distance. Like [[Warrior]]s, they will not perform any menial tasks, such as construction, and are best suited to Guarding or Fighting. Give them an advantage by placing them on hills or in [[tower]]s, [[balloon]]s or [[boat]]s.

Firewarriors can be stronger if in groups and all fire at the same time. This can be done by moving them closer to the target and then blasting the target at a close distance. This is used as a more riskier, but more successful way of killing the enemy [[shaman]].

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Spy

2009-08-01T21:10:03Z

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{{Infobox People
|Follower = Spy
|Image = spy2.jpg|200px
|Life = 3
|Strength = 3
|Scale = 1
|Special1 = Disguise
|Special2 = Burns Huts and Trees
}}

The Spy is not often used in [[Multiplayer]] Levels because of its apparent uselessness and cheapness. The best bet to see these [[Followers]] are after the Level [[An Easy Target]] when the [[Spy Training Hut]] is invented by the [[Chumara]] Tribe, your next door neighbors in this [[Single Player]] Game.

The foreground of the attached picture shows the Blue [[Tribes]] [[Spy Training Hut]], 4 [[Followers]], of the Spy Grade. They are distinguished to the player as [[Followers]] in black jackets, pants and the accompanying color. To the enemy, they are seen as [[Brave]]s. There main claim to fame is the ability for them to disguise as an enemy follower, sneak into an enemies base and light [[Hut]]s or trees on fire.

To disguise simply select one Spy, or multiple spies, and click an enemy [[Tribes]] color on the left panel to the right of the shaman shortcut icon. The icon switches to a masking button and one simply right clicks and the spy's middle color slowly changes to the selected enemy [[Tribes]] color. You can only tell your Spy (or spies) to light trees and enemy [[Hut]]s on fire, not your own. Simply select a Spy or spies, and approach a tree and left-click to set it ablaze. For enemy [[Hut]]s, do the same procedure, approach a [[Hut]], whilst disguised, and set it ablaze. If one is not disguised when attempting to set an enemy [[Hut]]s ablaze, they will be quickly attacked.

The spies strength is the lowest of all units, 1 [[Brave]] can easily kill a Spy, bare handed in less than 6 seconds whilst leaving the [[Brave]] just at ¾ health. It approximately takes 3 spies to kill just one [[Brave]].

The Spy lurking in ones base can be uncovered by simply finding one and left clicking them. Another tactic is to set a Spy in a [[Hut]] and lets them uncover spies attempting to gain entrance to ones base. If you put a Spy in a [[Tower]], their range is increased further, and they uncover spies at a greater distance.

=Tactics=

==Chaos Attack==

Simply select a group of six spies and assign three too attack one side of an entrance, and another three to another side of an entrance, or divide up them by two, and make 2-2-2 to attack an enemy's base. Simply bookmark each new unit and start assigning each to set ablaze [[Hut]]s Burn multiple [[Hut]]s (Ctrl and left click three [[Hut]]s) for the 1st group, five [[Hut]]s for the 2nd and three [[Hut]]s for the 3rd group, then further this by assigning each ones to attack separate [[Hut]]s.

==Multiple Burns==

You can select multiple [[Hut]]s for your spies to burn by holding ctrl then clicking each [[Hut]]. You may see the AI keep burning the same [[Hut]], but a damaged [[Hut]] cannot be further damaged by burning. So multiple select the same [[Hut]] again to keep burning it even when it's damaged.

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Preacher

2009-08-01T21:08:18Z

Pernicious:

{{Infobox People
|Follower = Preacher
|Image = preacher.jpg
|Life = 8
|Strength = 3
|Scale = 3
|Special1 = Convert
|Special2 = Disturb Preaching
}}

Preachers are created by training [[Brave]]s or any other Follower in the [[Temple]]. When Preachers are standing idle, they worship your name and chant passages from your Holy Scriptures. If an Enemy Follower hears them, they will be entranced and will sit and listen to the Preacher praising your name. After a while, without interruption, the Enemy Follower will be Converted to your cause. Preachers will not perform construction tasks and, although you can command them to guard, they will only preach when an Enemy Follower approaches. They are happiest when extolling your word but do not have any effect on the Enemy [[Shaman]] or Preachers.

You will first encounter Preachers on the third level of the game amongst the [[Chumara]] tribe. The easiest and most ideal way to combat Preachers is to cast a [[Swarm]] spell at him, thus causing him to panic and interrupt his preaching. This will allow any of your [[Tribes]]men being [[Convert]]ed by the Preacher to suddenly realise who their real [[Shaman]] is and attack the Preacher for heresy. Another good way is to send multiple Preachers and/or your [[shaman]] over to attack the enemy Preacher and, the additional Preachers can reconvert any of your Tribesmen he Managed to talk over. The last way is to send [[firewarrior]]s after him to attack from a distance.

Most people don't play with Preachers in [[multiplayer]], you may sometimes find them already built in new mappacks.

The five ways to disturb a preacher:
# Send a preacher to attack him.
# Send your [[Shaman]] to attack him.
# Cast an [[offensive spell]] on him.
# Send [[firewarrior]]s to attack him from afar (they cannot be [[hypnotised]] from afar)
# Mask a [[spy]] to the colour of the preacher and send the [[spy]] to attack him.

{{Nav_Followers}}