What use is death magic?

[Peter Ebbesen]

Shovah32 said:
So how about:
7xShaman with Ethereal bow, eye of aiming, boots of quickness
3xShaman with Black bows, eye of aiming and boots of quickness

Let them cast eagle eyes and, if possible get some-one casting wind guide.

That's an awful lot of gems poured into something that can be wiped out by a single blade wind if unfortunately positioned, though... Useful if you face nasty magicusing thugs or SCs, but against regular troops it is hard to imagine that there aren't other substantially better investment possibilities for the gems.

Let's face it: a mage with 20-30 gems worth of equipment who's able to kill one soldier every 2nd turn (if the soldier fails a MR) had better kill one hell of a good soldier to be worth the cost of equipping him.