[Immaculate]

You set up a trap for the opponent's movement phase. If you know (or can guess) where the opponent will move to, you set up some PD to tie up the opponent while you put one or two mages in the back to actually kill the enemy. Its a very cost-effective way to kill opponent forces.

This is based on the idea that the defender always 'moves first'. Ie- reinforcements always arrive before the opponent attacks UNLESS he attacks during the magic movement phase.

As an example, Archmage sent a thug, a vanjarl with a golden shield and a firebrand (and maybe a luck amulet- i don't recall) scripted to bless, mistform, mirror image (and maybe air shield) via cloud trapeeze into one province. Thats a pretty hefty opponent in my back row when my main armies were elsewhere fighting his main armies of skinshifters, etc. So what i did was send 4 turkeys (1s2n) to two of the neighboring provinces (2 in each). each had 3 nature gems and was scriped to cast, "Swarm, Swarm, eagle eyes, Vine arrow, Vine arrow". And i bought about 5-11 PD in each of the provinces, maybe less. So when he moved, and he did, he thought he would be attacking mostly PD but ended up moving into a 'defensive movement trap' and losing a vanjarl and 20-25 gem worth of equipment to my four nature gems.

Thats what i meant.



EDIT: i think you need this tool i your toolbox to move from newbie to intermediate level play. my 2 cents.