[Cheezeninja]

True... But in the case i was speaking of (my air mage wrath'ers) i like to hold a few at a laboratory as a force in readiness and cloud trapeeze them out. add to that the fact that quite a few air mages have flight, and quite often the scouts just can't keep up. For example, i cloud trapeezed a Harbinger with a bag of winds and a staff of storms out into a massive army of Ermorians. I sent him with 6 gems just because i had extra and he had a province to retreat back into (more than 1 since he's a flier). He demolished the ermorian army, but then in the movement phase another army moved in and he had no gems left, so he got beat up a little then retreated. If he could simply be told not to use anymore gems he would have demolished the second army too...

I hadnt thought about using scouts and sneaking like that though, thanks.