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DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY!

This is for later games when you're massively outnumbered by undead and want a cheap and effective way of dealing with masses of them.

Use this with any Astral/Fire mages

Before Battle have your mages cast Inner Fire.

First Spell in Battle, cast Phoenix Pyre (or Phoenix Power depending on where you place your mages).

Send the mages in for close combat (or fly if you are T'ien Ch'i to the back row)

FIREWORKS!

The Phoenix Pyre will hit any type of creature, while the Inner Sun burst will fry all low hp undead (Up to Longdead Horsemen and sometimes banes) and possibly higher end, depending on their MR.

The Pyre up and are ready to die for their country again, and take out a few boneys in the process.

They can do this until they run out of fatigue then death will be final, but 2 or 3 of these guys can take out huge numbers of those pesky undead, even if they have Antimagic on them.

Try it with Sacred Troops with a high Earth Blessing, some reinvigoration items, or Relief, for fun.

Beauty of this is you can send them in close to cast up close and personal banishments (which cost 0 Fatigue) while they blow the britches off of those who come to kill them.

[ January 13, 2004, 08:24: Message edited by: Zen ]