Machaka – a sorcerer’s fevered arachnophobia

[Kadelake]

Originally Posted by Baalz

The thing is, you're also going to want to be diversifying so that you're not completely screwed when your opponent starts spamming dust to dust (or other strong anti-undead spells). I'd almost always recommend nature and fire gems get funneled into dragon master and fire drakes, or vine ogres, or fire boosters for combat mages, or something else clever rather than making your banes more efficient.

I tried out the strat in SP and had horrible luck finding death gems (but I was lucky enough to find garnet amazons next to my capital, fetish spam + bloodstone spam = fun ). I had a great number of fire drakes soon and they worked very well but even with heavy armour and 50%FR the banes took noticeable friendly fire. Either a lycanthrope amulet or fire plate would take care of that. But as stated it all depends on what gems you find.

I was a little annoyed by the banes slow speed. Other units tend to pass them by (and get hit by their cold aura) and they are slow to help other parts of your army after they've killed the bad guys next to them.

Have you tried the stat against a heavy air nation? How does it stand up to thunder strike spam?