[jutetrea]

Def agree. Although I did take 1death for the points. Went with a rainbow pretender and through construction summons can cast build EVERYTHING.

SP though, so grain of salt.

Currently I have such a lead in everything its pretty much over, took the early magic/gem lead and never looked back. (wished my pretender up to 10 in all 8 schools with wiz ring/sorc ring/sorc robe).

Beyond the end game foolery - I had my masters casting and creating pretty much everything with summons and construction bridging the gaps. Now I send 2 or three per army, flame arrows + windguide + archers = whoopage.

Up to this point i've never used the eye of aiming - generally hate cursed items as i like to swap around. For this game I got a good chunk of air gems and just churned em out - so now single target/small aoe spells are fantastic. I also went the route of giving most of my commanders ranged weps... so while my archers are mincing theirs, my commanders (with wind guide and eye of aiming) are peppering the commanders.

New to me, but now one of my fav nations. Going to try them out in the different ages now to see how they work.

I also use worthy heroes mod and IMO they have THE best SC potential hero. Flying, immortal, good stats, 3 misc slots, and astral. I had him running around defeating whole armies no sweat. Finally got greedy and got him killed by exhaustion, but hes even better as a mummy + kurgi.

sorry for the rambling, but they are fun, diverse, and work well together.