Battlefield positioning observations

[Argitoth]

I dunno where you got that idea of moving mages closer to the battle, but usually my mages wait for the enemy to come to them. It's basically suicide to put a mage up front.

[Alexander Seil]

Originally posted by Argitoth:
I dunno where you got that idea of moving mages closer to the battle, but usually my mages wait for the enemy to come to them. It's basically suicide to put a mage up front.

How's that? Set the army up so that the mage could cast something nasty before the advance elements of the enemy force even reach your position. If you have a squad on hold and attack orders right behind him, they would engage the enemy right before they get to the mage. Even then, however, only cavalry or fliers would present a serious threat.

[Graeme Dice]

Not all mages are easy to kill. Take Vanjarl's for instance. Orders of mistform, attack/fire one turn, orb lightning, orb lightning, orb lightning will make them both very hard to hurt (due to mirror images, defense of 21, and only 1 damage per attack), and will put them in range for orb lightning, which is a very dangerous spell up close.

[Zurai]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
Not all mages are easy to kill. Take Vanjarl's for instance. Orders of mistform, attack/fire one turn, orb lightning, orb lightning, orb lightning will make them both very hard to hurt (due to mirror images, defense of 21, and only 1 damage per attack), and will put them in range for orb lightning, which is a very dangerous spell up close.

Works for the mages in the Last of the Tuatha theme too. Daoine Lords and Tuathas.