Empowerment
A question on mages, empowerment and strategy:
I've played a lot of SP dominions, but I've rarely taken much advantage of the magic in the game. My usual strategy is to take maximum scales (Order-3 Prod-3 etc.), build a massive army of medium infantry, and stomp the poor AIs flat. This works most of the time because I can build up my army and kill him before he has time to research enough spells to stop me...
I'm now trying more magic based strategies -- presently, my EA Ctis armies are reinforced by gem-laden Reborns tossing around Shadow Blasts with devestating effect. Because this is only a D2 spell, I can easily get lots of cheap mages to cast it.
What I'm wondering about is the usefulness of the higher magical spells. Most of the really powerful spells require skill levels of 4, 5, or higher. Flaming Arrows is an excellent example of this -- F4 required. I don't see any races that can recruit both national archers and F3 mages, which makes the spell difficult to use effectively. (I'm intentionally ignoring Marginon... long story there)
So after all this prelude, my question is, is empowering mages to higher skill levels a common strategy to employ high level spells? I noticed that EA Yomi has an F2 mage and lots of national archers. Would empowering those snake women to F3, giving them some gems to cast F4 Flaming Arrows, and having them tag along with large archer armies be a common or effective strategy?
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