Immortal Pretender trick
 

Most of you probably already know this, but I thought I would share.

If you capital is under siege and you have an immortal pretender, you can try to break the siege every turn. You might worry that you would lose this battle and then the pretender could not assist in defending the castle as it is stormed. This is not the case. Even if they die trying to break siege, they will be there in the castle storming defense. In other words, I killed him when he tried to break siege and then had to kill him again when I stormed the castle. As a high level fire mage, he hurt me…

Of course, you may well have better things to do with them, like summoning units, but it is an option. Also, if your capital is in that much trouble, you also have big, big problems, but knowing you can hurt them a bit more might be of interest.

Re: Immortal Pretender trick
 

I love immortal gods, what I find is the best strategy with a phoenix, is to get at least 3+ earth, lots and lots of fire 8+ and maybe some astral 3+ what you do is then Invulnerability, Body ethereal and Fire shield if ya want, but it's not necessary, then cast FireStrom, thats the one that turns the whole battlefield into an inferno right? Then with the rest make it cast that other high level fire spell, not he battle field effect, Flamestorm, or the such, having somthing like that! defending your capital! unless your facing abysians, on the break siege if you win, it's all good anyway, if you lose, the enemy force will be crippled, and! your commander will die, lose any remaining fire gems, so your friends in your capital won't be hit by the battlefield effect spell cause you can't cast it will no gems!