Drain

[Starshine_Monarch]

Lazy_Perfectionist said:
Say, hostile troops in a magic 3 territory, they would suffer the -1 resistance, right, even though it is from positive scales?

That is true. You can use those scales defensively like that if you're being invaded. I suppose that would be one reason to buy Drain 1 or Magic 2. Drain 1 reduces research but does nothing to the enemy's (or your own) MR so it would have no effect on spells being cast in battle.

Magic 2 only increases Research by 1/researcher, but reduces MR of anyone in that dominion, making it easier to affect enemies with spells (I usually don't take Magic 2 anyways because then I am equally vulnerable.). I suppose Magic 2 would be of most use to someone who is afraid of getting swamped with armies of longdead. The lowered MR will make banishing them easier.