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Originally posted by Daynarr:
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4. Wait for an astral nation to dispel it.
4. In SP you might as well use 2 or 3. It’s extremely rare occurrence that AI dispels GE. It usually overwrites it with BoT of it’s own and that won’t help you.

If so, I'm lucky. The only time I've seen the AI cast BoT, the very next turn, another AI dispelled it.

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9. In order to empower mage you need astral gems (and a lot of them). For non-astral nation it’s not a valid solution since they have no astral income.

Your arguments seem to assume the player's nation is rather weak, to be ruling out so many options. Such assumptions aren't saying much about BoT - you're mainly saying that if you're weak and they're strong and using BoT on you, then you're in trouble. If you're that weak though, you're in trouble when they do anything to you. Being unable to dispel any global enchantments is of course a weak situation to be in - many global spells are hard to deal with if you can't dispel them or cast something better yourself.

On the other hand, getting someone up to enough Astral to be able to dispel isn't all that hard. I did it with Iron Faith Ulm with an Astral-1 priest, and it wasn't hard. There are some items that can make this pretty cheap, especially if you have construction bonuses. If you assume they don't have astral gems to do this, you're saying they're too lame to dispel anyway. And you're probably ignoring that any gems can be made into astral gems at a 2:1 rate with alchemy, if need be.

As for cheaper units being more vulnerable to BoT... how does BoT take effect? What resists it?

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