[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Schmoe:
I don't really know a good counter to Wrathful Skies, though. (...) Enchantment 5 can grant Thunder Ward, but that requires you to have an Air mage to begin with.

Thunderward is nearly useless: It only grants partial lightning resistance, which is insufficient to actually stop it from killing you. Unless it can stack with something else to achieve full immunity, it will not prevent everyone from dying, because in Dominions, anything which can kill you, will, when applied as indiscriminately as Wrathing is.

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Hrm. Well - Thunderward would stack with an air 9 blessing, except Ulm doesn't get sacred troops. Nonetheless, I have to disagree slightly.

Given decent troops, seems like Thunderward might keep them alive long enough to kill the caster of Wrathful Skies. Caster dies, the spell dies, right? If the caster brings troops (which Wrathing commanders may not), again, Thunderward allows even militia to have a chance at surviving long enough to inflict some casualties.

However - barring a nice indie site, Ulm isn't going to get Air mages. Kind of a shame, given their Earth magic strengths, that there isn't an Earth based spell for avoiding / reducing lightning damage - after all, that heavy iron / steel armor should, with magic, act as lightning rods.

Really - Earth seems like the perfect area of magic to get lightning resistance as a mass spell, while Air, I can see it giving individual lightning resistance, but for the entire army? Air magic should want to _maximize_ the effects of lightning and storms, not avoid it.