The next patch

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
So you willfully squander your national resources over a belief in what you see as "cheese" instead of playing the game as written. That is certainly your perogative, but does not figure into a rational analysis.

It also illustrates the weakness of water magic, since the only effective thing to do with it in the very long term is to turn it into astral pearls.

The sheer amount of research you were giving up on such an excursion, towing around an entire boatload of mages, must have been immense.

Sure, it would have been large in the early game, but by this point it isn't much of an expense. This is still an illustration of an imbalance, since no single unit should be able to destroy an army made up of the toughest summons that are available to that nation, and certainly not one backed up by multiple mages with ninth level spells researched.

I think that even my basic starting air-4 gets me a lot more than 4 mirror images. And I'm surprised you didn't have herald lances anyway.

They are very expensive, since they are 10 astral pearls, and astral is the most generally useful magic.

And of course you got water elementals instead of ice ones. You have forgotten that the Mictlan climate is warm, not cold?

Did you happen to notice the snow on the ground in that battle? I would have thought that that would have been enough to cause ice elementals to form.