[HoneyBadger]

Mind you, drakes should be made better, or atleast more accessible, in some fashion. They're neat units! I'd just like to see the whole concept improved to the point where people don't feel the "solution" aka the spell "Dragon Mastery" is a rip-off (and it is).

Maybe we could have some (or more, if I've missed them) magic sites that allow the recruitment of drakes? Or mod command that allows one to create a mage that specializes in summoning a specific type of unit (like druids and vine-men/vine-ogres) and apply that to each type of drake. Or both, just because I like drakes. Such features/abilities would make a spell like "Dragon Mastery" excellent, if it stacked. Or add a drake version of the Vine-Ogre, where the spell would let you summon additional, more powerful versions of drakes? In the process, making it clear that drakes are *not* dragons-just, perhaps, related. It would save so much philosophical angst.

I still think the name is unfortunate, though, and the main problem, dragons being such major hitters in mythology. It's a bit like calling anyone who owns a fire-arm a Marine-it's not only inaccurate, it's emotionally dangerous in it's inaccuracy.