I probably did! But mages do indeed spend gems against SCs and thugs, for sure.
I didn't know that the communion bonus paths didn't show up during combat, either... that's odd, because they do for all other path boosting spells.
And it was a good fight - I really didn't anticipate them being thugged up rather than combat casting... but the spells I should have casted would have taken care of that. Oh well, see you next turn.
