Blink

[Dedas]

Blink is a really wacky spell but it's also extremely useful. Where it really shines is when you combine it with numbers. Having 10 or more cheap blinking warrior mages scripted with a close combat magic spell and ritual of returning means that at least one or two of them will severely damage the enemy rear. Imagine what one or two Flame Eruptions or Shock waves can do that a cluster of enemy artillery mages.

[Sombre]

Originally Posted by Dedas

Blink is a really wacky spell but it's also extremely useful. Where it really shines is when you combine it with numbers. Having 10 or more cheap blinking warrior mages scripted with a close combat magic spell and ritual of returning means that at least one or two of them will severely damage the enemy rear. Imagine what one or two Flame Eruptions or Shock waves can do that a cluster of enemy artillery mages.

How many cheap astral and combat magic mages are there? Have you actually successfully used this tactic? It sounds pretty unreliable and easily disrupted - I mean you aren't going to be teleporting with these mages, so how do you know you aren't going to run into a handful of chaff troops? You'd lose several mages and probably quite a few gems they had for the returning.