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Originally posted by HotNifeThruButr:
Spring and Autumn mages are all good and fun, but how do you cope with their second rate units? do you have armies composed only of demons

I have armies composed only of mages.

Okay, seriously: At the very beginnning, as much as bowmen as I can recruit, with a few heavy footmen with big shields. The footmen without shields die naturally due friendly fire within first few battles, so in the end, bowmen and "heavy" infantry. If I've felt lucky, once I've recruited my second noble I've put them on attack archers duty. Risky but rewarding, currently in MP got one noble with heroic quickness (+160%). His comrades are long gone, though.

At the beginning, of course, fights must be picked carefully. No provinces with knights or heavy cavalry.

Quite fast you've got tens of dispossessed spirits, so off to battle they go. Cheap fodder, and can paralyze. I've got no experience how the 2.11 has affected them, but still.

When you've got enough Demons to warrant their use in battle, the research has probably yelded a few decent combat spells for the mages leading them. And off they go too.

Then, as magic research progresses, so does S&A power level. And what started as a no-good nation with inferior units is soon whacking everyone to submission with every spell imaginable.

Zen has made a quide for S&A, it is at least on Sunraybe's site. I think it's quite useful.

Well, that is how I play, others do it differently. There has been quite a few discussions about TC in general and S&A in particular, the search function is your friend.