THE PERFECT STORM
This is one of the most abusive combo's in the game. It takes a bit of effort but it's worth it for the brutal effect.
Research Evocation-6 and Enchantment-4.
Locate and enemy army that you want dead...
Take two Air-3 mages.
Give one 3 air gems and the other 2.
Give both rings of Tamed Lightning.
Cloud Trapeze the mages to the enemy army. They arrive in the magic phase before the army can move.
Mage 1 casts Wrathful Skies.
Mage 2 casts Storm.
With no other nonsense this will often expose the enemy army to 3-4 turns of armor negating lightning strikes. The mages will eventually get smacked, but the damage done will be tremendous.
Afraid of flyers getting to the mages before Storms goes off?
Then get rid of mage 2. Research Construction-4 and make a Staff of Storms.
Send in one mage with the SOS and 3 gems (you can get away with 2 sometimes, but don't risk it).
Have that mage cast Wrathful Skies (then mistform and mirror image if you can).
What's that you say? Don't want to lose mages at all? Ok, just send in more air mages and have them cast air elementals. The air elementals will clog the enemy advance and will expose them to further rounds of lightning strikes.
Unless the enemy army can lightning proof itself, this technique will savage them.
If you don't have air-3 mages you can take a Titan pretender with a bunch of air skill. Pile on some magic items to beef the Titan up into a serious combat threat. Trapeze, Storm, Wrath, [defensive spells], and then either fight or cast orb lightnings. The Titan starts lightning proof, and can easily be cultivated into a instant army buster.
During the days of Dom1 I made quite a fuss about this combo being unfair, and I asked Illwinter to increase costs to fix it. Nothing has changed. I beg you guys to limit the distance on cloud trapeze, or make the SOS unique, and definitely raise the cost of wrathful skies! It's really not fun to be on the recieving end of this technique. Not at all...
PS- How long did you think I could go without complaining about something?
