Good guide.
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Originally Posted by iainuki
Baalz has some good suggestions for midgame tactics for Marverni, including teleporting druids. While druids with province defense support can rout impressively large armies, I've had some trouble teleporting in and routing the PD before something reaches me. Thus, I tend to be a bit more conservative than Baalz and use teleporting druids in pairs, with bottles of living water and swarm to delay the defenders while the druids kill them with blade wind or gifts from heaven
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I find that the one man druid hit squad requires some fine tuning depending on what specific PD he's going up against - and doesn't work at all against some PD's (Caelum, for instance). Fortunately PD is the same every time so you can test out some scripts in a test game before dropping in on somebody in MP.
Earth elementals are great at tying up PD and sometimes work much better than evocations at dealing damage. 3 E gems = two earth elementals, which will squish plenty of different types of PD without worrying (much) about them closing on your druid. I find this tends to work better than living earth in most situations.
If you're doing a two man squad consider one summoning earth elementals and another buffing them (body ethereal or quickness/haste depending). You can rotate who's buffing and who's summoning to squeeze out extra buffed elementals.
Lantern shields (if you've managed to get those paths) can work well in tying up enemy PD.
Remote attack spells (call of the winds, call of the wild, arouse hunger, etc.) arrive at the same time as a teleporting druid and look a whole lot nastier when you drop mass protection/army of gold. Can be a good way to buy yourself some turns to hammer an enemy army.