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They're back: Return of the Slivers. [Updated 24/8-2005: Beware the Overlord!]
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<blockquote data-quote="Krishnath" data-source="post: 2462612" data-attributes="member: 56"><p><span style="color: aqua">Theoretically you could, but let's face it, the slivers would wipe you from the face of the plane before you had a chance to. Lucky for us, slivers aren't really all that agressive.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: aqua">Maybe. No. To powerfull, even for a sliver.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: aqua">No, they wouldn't be invincible, even a lowly fireball could kill dozens of slivers at a time, and when you start getting more powerful area affect spells such as cloud kill, and fire storm, well...</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua">Anyway, the sliver queen doesn't bestow any bonuses upon the slivers, it's more like the other way around. Additionally, the sliver queen rarely, if ever, leaves her lair. Of course, the walls of the lair, and the sliver queen herself, is adorned with hundreds, perhaps even thousands of various worker and specialist slivers, granting her massive bonuses. Additionally, you can often find various other noble slivers in her lair, particularly Essence and Synapse slivers. And even if you should manage to wipe out the slivers guarding her, she is quite capable of holding her own. Even though she is more likely to flee if seriously threatened. And as Solarious said, it would take a major apocalypse to wipe out the slivers, like a tactical nuke going of in the center of the hive. And even then, all it takes is for one protosliver to survive for the hive to regrow. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious :]" data-shortname=":]" /></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Krishnath, post: 2462612, member: 56"] [color=aqua]Theoretically you could, but let's face it, the slivers would wipe you from the face of the plane before you had a chance to. Lucky for us, slivers aren't really all that agressive.[/color] [color=aqua]Maybe. No. To powerfull, even for a sliver.[/color] [color=aqua]No, they wouldn't be invincible, even a lowly fireball could kill dozens of slivers at a time, and when you start getting more powerful area affect spells such as cloud kill, and fire storm, well... Anyway, the sliver queen doesn't bestow any bonuses upon the slivers, it's more like the other way around. Additionally, the sliver queen rarely, if ever, leaves her lair. Of course, the walls of the lair, and the sliver queen herself, is adorned with hundreds, perhaps even thousands of various worker and specialist slivers, granting her massive bonuses. Additionally, you can often find various other noble slivers in her lair, particularly Essence and Synapse slivers. And even if you should manage to wipe out the slivers guarding her, she is quite capable of holding her own. Even though she is more likely to flee if seriously threatened. And as Solarious said, it would take a major apocalypse to wipe out the slivers, like a tactical nuke going of in the center of the hive. And even then, all it takes is for one protosliver to survive for the hive to regrow. :][/color] [/QUOTE]
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