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Originally posted by johan osterman:
I think you are overstating your case, Sauromancers are not as expensive as mages with 3 2 1 magic. Crone of Avalon 230, Skratti 250 (2 2 1), Granmdaster 250, Abysian warlock 270. Pandemoniac 3 2 320. Now some of these have special abilities or more hitpoints then your average mage, but still I think their costs show that the sauromancer has a competetive price, and unlike the warlock or the crone sauromancer are recruitable outside your home province.

The national mages with comparable skill and cost are Caelian high seraphs with 3 2 1 for 175gp and deep seers with 3 2 for 180. The caelian high seraph is the most cost effective purchasable mage there is, so as long as you do not compare the Sauromancers cost with the high seraph, I think he holds his own.

Yes you are right, in the sense that I had mainly in mind High Seraph of uber Caelum, or more costlier mages but with special abilities (Grand Master are priests, Pandemoniac & Skratti are very tough) when I compared the Sauromancer.

I suppose it means that you are balancing units costs not on a one to one basis, but overall to a nation, as there is no arguments why a warlock would cost 270 gp and a high seraph only 175.

I will stop arguing because game balancing always lead to endless debates. (for example what is so weak in Caelum that they need to have cheap mages to balance things out?).