Your most magic-less game

[Sombre]

The problem with a hard research game designed to cut down on magic is that bless troops take over, along with a handful of effective SC pretenders (like PoD).

A game with very hard research, pretenders restricted max of 4 in a magic path and certain pretenders banned might be good fun.

I do sometimes turn on hard research for SP games though, where I don't use uber blesses or SCs.