Re: vengeance of the dead, how it works with 1000+
Vengeance of the Dead is definitely a better spell than mind hutn, but it does have its limits.
1) A nation needs access to a combined Death and Astral Mage (3S,2D) to cast the spell. Not a lot of those floating around.
2) It requires an MR check. Pretenders have a base MR of 18, meaning assumming no other modifiers the spell will only work 8% of the time. The use of Penetration boosters is obvious, but so is the equiping of MR boosters. Finally, dominion will alter MR.
3) If the MR fails, the avenging dead still have to kill the unit. IF the unit is an SC, chances are he or she will be equiped to deal with masses of low level troops. Obviously, the spell become more powerful with each casting, but this combined with the MR check is enough to balance the cost of the spell.
Personally, I think its almost better suited for picking off evocation mages than SC's. But as players have mentioned SC's rarely need any further help than what they've already got.
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