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The mind duel is relevant here because you can risk your Seithkonas trying to astral duel Arco mages so that they can't Soul Slay your Werewolves. If you're trying to mind duel a natural S4, that's probably going to mean about 5 dead seithkonas per dead enemy. If you're targetting an S2 that's casting SS using boosters, you'll lose about 1.7 seithkonas per dead S2.

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exactly, very economical - especially given the equipment he is losing. Even if you get unlucky firs ttime you use it, it will certainly scare him

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Interesting... need to think about mass seithkonas then.

Also, is the mind duel then also unbuffable re protection? i.e. would luck help in the case of an adverse duel result for example? guess the answer is no?

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Indeed. If you lose mind duel you die with no get-outs.

Although... I don't know about Life After Death or Twiceborn. LAD+Mind Duel would be interesting if it worked.

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I would assume that any of the normal "Get another life when you die" effects would save you. Immortality and Twiceborn in dominion. Phoenix Pyre? Life after death. The Elixir of life.

How about second shape? It works on soul slay.

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Second Shape works on Magic Duel too.

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So does twice born. And phoenix pyre used to before patches. I don't know if it still does.

I used to use it with marignon / Ea Ermor.

And I love giving B4 or S4 to the phoenix depending on what my nation has. S if it has blood, b if it has s...

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Playing Utgard again, got to love those werewolves. Now, beyond uberthugging, is there a life for Utgard? What would be a practical mid and end game strategy for the cold guys if the chalice and sceptre of regency were not available? Not really sure what to aim for other than Tartarians as the easy option...

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Oh yeah, Utgard has a lot of versatility that's often overlooked because of the obvious stuff. They've got extremely powerful communion potential with triple path 90 gold Seithkona supported by blood magic (reinvigoration). Norna are amazing and by mid game you should have several set up to teleport wherever you want. They won't be thugging obviously, but dropping in to lead a 4 man (er woman) Seithkona communion is a hell of a lot of whoopass for under 600 gold. If you keep popping reinvigoration those 90 gold communion slaves go a long way 4X shadow blast, or raise skellys, or disintegrate, or charm (use gems) or wither bones (gems) or ... well lots of nasty stuff every round till you run out of script. Don't overlook fun things you can do buffing your troops with that communion master, even your PD takes some work to bring down when you stack battle fortune on top of mass regeneration & mass protection while the Jotun Hirdmen become positively beastly.

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Thanks yes. Re communions I presume one has to apply care and ensure the teleported Nornas actually deploy at the bottom of the army set up list so to allow the reverse communion you indicate with the local waiting seithkonas, or otherwise arm them with a bow or something, no?