Balancing Wrathful Skies

[Turin]

huh? how is killing an army worth 1k gold not cost effective?
For example to take out that marignon army I would stick a bottle of living water(so that the mage doesn´t retreat), a ring of tamed lighning and a robe of missile protection(or boots of quickness to cast air shield yourself) on the wrather and position him in the back so he is unreachable by the mages.The crossbowmen won´t hit with halved precision and only half of them firing. The flagellants will be busy with the waterelemental if they even come that far.

You stick the staff of storms on another cloudtrapezing mage, scripted to retreat.
So for 8 gems and the time investment of two mages I can kill your army worth 1k gold. Sounds like a very nice deal to me.

And this is even without considering things like immortal pretenders casting wrath, or hard to kill units like airqueens.

wrathful skies doesn´t ruin the game, it just makes it not cost effective to build national armys after the first 15-20 turns. And that means that lots of the individual nation´s flavor gets lost.