This slavery thing is awesome...
 

Okay. So if all the communion slaves receive the bonuses to their paths as well, why don't we initiate communion with a weak mage and then just use the bonus paths from slavery for our real mages.

As in:
Thaumaturge: Communion Master, hold x4, stay behind troops
Grand Thamaturges 1-4: Communion Slaves, whatever spells they like at paths +2.

Or even use regular thaumaturges - heck, you've lost a spellcasting round and a single SDHH mage for the fight to upgrade 4 other SDHH mages to SSSDDDHHHH. That's a swap I'll make any day of the week.

Re: This slavery thing is awesome...
 

That's a very intersting idea. Has anybody tried that?

Re: This slavery thing is awesome...
 

It appears not to work. Thaumaturge slaves in a four slave communion cannot cast Power of the Sepulcher.

Re: This slavery thing is awesome...
 

That's brilliant to the point that, if it works, it's exploitative. Does there need to be a living master on the field for the slaves to get the extra levels? Or can an Acolyte master walk off the field and let 16 Theurgs cast at +4 for the rest of the battle?

If the master needs to be present a Flame helmet could keep him over 100 fatigue so the slaves can get some work done.

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Ah well, it's kind of good that it doesn't work, if it did it would be an exploit to the point of being a bug, really. I guess the extra levels for the slaves only count with respect the spells the masters cast.

Re: This slavery thing is awesome...
 

Exactly.