Gnolls

1 Roleplay Info
2 The Numbers
3 Strategies
- 3.1 General Strategies
4 Links
- 4.1 Compendium

Roleplay Info

The wild hyena-men who dwell in the dusty savanna and along the riverbanks are, perhaps, the most resilient of all races. They need to be. With a long history of piracy and treachery, this race of mercenaries, rogues, and bandits are despised by most other peoples. Surviving at the fringes of other civilizations for centuries by providing services other races found too distasteful to dirty their hands with, the Gnolls have suffered through betrayals, pogroms, and bigotry. Through the worst of times, because of their strong culture and adaptability, the gnolls have always survived. They are still here, and they're not going away.

Strengths

Average Looting, Moral stats, Above average Searching, Exceptional Spying, and Average Food Production. Average Builders... Great Special.

Weaknesses

Poor Mages And Assassins. Bad mana rate. Poor wep/armor/wm production. Below average General Study and Terrible Spell Study.

Special Ability

Gnolls can convert certain troops to other troop types. They can turn Fighters, Rangers and Archers from one type to another, as they choose. Each change takes one turn. So they can, for example, turn 15k fighters to rangers for exploration of maps using one turn, then go to attack runs on the new acquired targets by using a turn to change 10k of their rangers to fighters and another turn to change the rest 5k rangers to archers.

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The Numbers

Troop Percentages

Troop	Quality
Archers	300%
Assassins	40%
Clerics	100%
Fighters	300%
Mages	50%
Rangers	300%
Thieves	200%

Food Modifiers

Type	Modifier	Description
Food Consumed	0.75	For every 1 unit of population or military, .75 food is consumed.
Food Produced	0.825	For every 5 farm parts, 825 food is produced
Population	0.3	Population will grow by 30% per turn if housing is available.
Cannibalism	10	More information on Cannibalism

Equipment/Construction

Type	Modifier	Description
Build Rate	1	Laborers are 100% as effective as normal laborers when constructing Buildings.
Build Equipment Rate	1	Laborers are 100% as effective as normal laborers when constructing Weapons, Armor, and War Machines.
Armor Usage	1	Armor usage is 100% of normal usage.
Weapon Usage	1.1	Weapon usage is 110% of normal usage.
Armor Study	0.6	Armor study is below normal.
Weapon Study	0.6	Weapon study is below normal.
War Machines Production Quality	0.5	War Machines are produced at 50% of the studied quality. (i.e. 100% study means 50% war machines.)
Laborers per War Machine	1.1	Number of Laborers required to handle a War Machine is 110% of normal.

Misc.

Type	Modifier	Description
Assassinate	0.75	Assassins are 75% as effective as normal assassins when trying to assassinate others.
Loot	1	Thieves are 100% as effective as normal thieves when trying to steal from others.
Mana	0.75	Population will produce mana at the same rate as a normal population 75% of its size.
Morale	1	Morale changes at the normal rate.
Mutiny	2	Read more about Mutiny.
Search	1.5	Rangers are 150% as effective as normal rangers when exploring for land or food.
Spy	2.5	Spies are 250% as effective as normal spies.
General Study	0.9	Study of non-magic areas and general magic skill proceeds at 90% of the normal study rate.
Spell Study	0.5	Study in realms of magic proceeds at 50% of the normal spell study rate.

Strategies

General Strategies

As one SM player said, "Gnolls own in an OM uni!" That is, Let's say high percent Archers are selling for cheap on the OM (that's open market). However, equal percentage Fighters are selling for quite a hefty fee. The gnoll can buy the cheap Archers, convert them to Fighters (using their special), then sell the Fighters on the OM for quite a profit!

Gnolls have bad study and bad mana mod. That means, choose what you study wisely, and stick to spells that are more of a "nifty spell to have" rather than one that requires lots of mana to use effectively. You have other methods of dealing damage, don't waste the limited study you will have on those kinds of spells.

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