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Saber Cherry said:
Quite the opposite. SCs are cheap and easily replacable (Bane Lord, Tartarian, etc) if you have the magic levels to create them.
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A bane lord has to have extremely expensive equipment that at least triples his cost in order to make him able to stand up to elite national troops. He'll need a luck pendant, antimagic amulet, starshine skull cap, wraith sword, flying boots, and a jade armour at the very least. Even then, a lucky set of 50 barbarians or so can take them out from time to time.
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As for rushing - of course you have to rush, to get the best (unique or limited) SCs, and double-rush if you want to make them invincible with unique artifacts too.
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Very few of the artifacts are worth using on SCs. The weapons are only worthwhile if you also have a blood thorn or can cast soul vortex and have a regeneration source. The armours are too heavy for anything that isn't undead and very beefy. The shields are very good.
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Otherwise you're left summoning weak fallen angels because all of the ice devils and arch devils are taken.
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The devil commanders from hordes from hell would almost certainly be a better use of your blood slaves.
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I like to play single player because AIs don't use SCs, and the game is more fun and strategically + tactically interesting if I have to use real armies instead of just moving my SCs around without even bothering to check what's in the target provinces, because the outcome is assured.
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Well, that's to be expected if you're playing against the AI. You simply cannot send SCs into a battle unsupported after a certain point in the game, as they will be taken down by an appropriately constructed army or ghostriders.
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If making each SC took resources similar to a huge national army, that would be OK.
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Should the battlefield affecting spells also take similar amounts of resources then? Wrathful skies is far more effective at destroying a huge national army than even the most expensively equipped bane lord ever would be.
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But they simply don't, and have huge advantages in mobility, supply usage, and upkeep on top of that.
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Armies have their own advantages, they can be far more numerous in number than the amount of SCs that your opponent can put out. If you have a dozen armies, he needs more than a dozen bane lords, and that gets extremely expensive.