Questions about a game in progress

[FrankTrollman]

Hidden in Snow, Enchantment 6 and W3D1, is expensive at 55 gems but gives you up to two Unfrozen mages who the manual lists as having four randoms. That would be very nice if you had more Water gem income.

Yeah, what is up with that spell?

I cast it three times and got:

2 mages, 5 improved unfrozen, 20 normal unfrozen
2 mages, 7 improved unfrozen, 18 normal unfrozen
0 mages, 3 improved unfrozen, 6 normal unfrozen.

The last casting was during Winter, and boy did that suck.

Anyways, the Mages are random, the worst one was 2 Earth and 1 Death, but the other 3 had 6 or 7 picks each, distributed between Earth, Water, and Death (looks like up to 3 in each path, I got a 3 Earth guy, a 3 Water guy and a 3 Death guy with 1 or 2 picks in the others).

Individually, Unfrozen have better stats than Wights, but they tend to fight with stone spears and leather armor, which makes them somewhat inferior. The Unfrozen Leader however, is pretty exciting. Marginally better stats than a Bane and his disadvantage of coming with worse armor is just 5 Earth gems away from being solved.

-Frank

[Shovah32]

Ive only cast it once and I got 1 unfrozen leader, 2 very nice mages, 1 poor mage, 2 improved unfrozen and a bunch of regulars.

[Gandalf Parker]

In general "turtle and research" is a tactic which would work best on
A) large maps
B) few players
C) high setting on independents

Any of those can work, or all of them. Any opposite settings (small maps, many players, default or lower indepts) would create a rush game which would be hard for you to survive. Dont despair though. If you are good at turtle and research then you could be a welcome surprise in the large games.

[NTJedi]

FrankTrollman said:

I cast it three times and got:

2 mages, 5 improved unfrozen, 20 normal unfrozen
2 mages, 7 improved unfrozen, 18 normal unfrozen
0 mages, 3 improved unfrozen, 6 normal unfrozen.

The last casting was during Winter, and boy did that suck.

-Frank

Perhaps the spell has worse results during the winter and best results during the summer... it might also be complete random results. If I wasn't at work I'd do some quick tests.