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...with somebody other than the Mictlan lightning rod. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Bah I have been encountering huge armies in the southern sea. I guess he values his homeland and home province a bit http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/Injured.gif

Also there is a scary s10 (with boosters) pretender running around here throwing master enslave.

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While I have never done it, it would be fun to see a true s10 mage at the back of a decent army fighting an astral mage race and just spamming magic duel every turn.

Of course, 1 bad roll of the dice and your pretender is dead.

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Not actually, the die roll for magic duel is not open ended, so if you're more than 6 levels higher than your opponent you're guaranteed to win. So, a s10 mage could comfortably wade in among anything short of s5, and there's not exactly a lot of s5+ guys (boosters don't count for magic duel)...you're basically just worried about another astral pretender. Its not even like you need to worry about somebody empowering up mages to s5 to trip you...that's *expensive* and you still have a 35 out of 36 chance of winning vs s5.

'course, its not like you've got anything better for you s10 guy to do than kill mid level mages one at a time....

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I think there is always a chance to fail in any combat. I am pretty sure I have watched an s9 and s3 both die in a magic duel.

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Not with Magic Dual.

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The way magic duel is supposed to work a s9 (base not boosters is what counts) will win 100% of the time against s3.

edit: In this case the pretender is s6 in base, such a pretender should not feel safe around starspawns http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Actually I had a counterattack very similar of the one you faced last turn ready on my hard drive the turn I managed to just miss the hosting deadline. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif I then managed to stale the next turn too due to work issues, and then I executed the counterattack I had planned. (And I might add that some of your tartarians were really lucky to escape alive. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif) Those two stales didn't exactly help my already difficult position either...

In most places you can't find many of those, it's true... But R'lyeh's spawn have 1/16 of being S5, and there's a LOT of starspawn running around in these parts. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

Don't worry, he does not feel safe around them.

That's why I decided I'd kill them all next turn, obviously. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I feel the same way about your tartarians. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

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shht! Don't tell em. Might hurt their confidence.