Greed is a killer...

[Tiburon Silverflame]

But if you're gonna use multiple TO to reduce numbers like that, you have to make damn sure you don't allow the residual group to have lots of LOS with you. The key point is to realize that you can't leave a lot of em functional, and with LOS.

A side point is that, one of the things that makes chaos hounds a pain, is that they've got the hit points so no area attack spell is really worth much.

[Derakon]

Alternatively, nothing says that you have to teleport them all away at once, just because you can. You have the spell; you can TO each of them individually. It just takes longer and costs more mana.

[Tiburon Silverflame]

TO is a line effect, so unless the setup is highly favorable to that...and odds are, in a vault, it won't be...it's not a very good tactic against a pack. In a vault you should have fairly good choice on where you breach; I'll prefer somewhere that won't give LOS to more than a few at first, and, if I can, give a line of retreat. Take out the first few, to get their numbers down, then you can usually use your speed advantage to get the rest.

[Fendell Orcbane]

Odd; generally I consider Chaos hounds to be handy walking bags of experience, assuming I have the relevant resist. How many hitpoints did you have?

Well I had 758 went down to 450 or so after 2 breaths. And I was resisting. But I wasn't set up to fight them. They were right in front of me, I just thought that I'd have enough time to TO a bunch of them before they got to move. My mistake.

[Derakon]

Odd; generally I consider Chaos hounds to be handy walking bags of experience, assuming I have the relevant resist. How many hitpoints did you have?

[Fendell Orcbane]

So I almost bite the dust during my last recall to 4900'. When I first appeared something breathed Plasma. What it was I didn't find out because it didn't show up on ESP. But I thought Plasma hounds and teleported out of there. In retrospect it was most likely a vortex. But it did get the first attack. So then I almost killed Maeglin but he summoned a bunch of Uniques one of which came with greater Balrogs. So I *destructed* the area. I was pissed though since Maeglin only had two * left.

Then I did something risky. Which you ideally should not be doing in this game. I opened a vault full of chaos hounds. I was thinking that I could TO them away before they hit me. Well two of them Breathed on me and got me in the red. It sucked. But honestly I thought that I was dead. If three more hit me I would have been dead. I was resisting Chaos too... if I hadn't that would have been the end.

Moral of the story...avoid Chaos hounds at all cost.