Soul Gate questions

[rabelais]

I noticed in reading user created docs today that SG allegedly gets dark knowledge as a starting spell, and while neither BE or AE do.

Is this actually the case, and if so, anyone have a theory as to why this is?

It seems to me that SG, being more defensively oriented, is much stronger in MP than the other themes, I find it odd it should receive a huge bonus in the form of insta-remote searching.

What am I missing?


Rabe the Broken, Ashen Man

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by rabelais:
It seems to me that SG, being more defensively oriented, is much stronger in MP than the other themes, I find it odd it should receive a huge bonus in the form of insta-remote searching.

Dark knowledge is conjuration 2, which is not a difficult target for a magic scale Ermor. It also slows their expansion down, as a death 9 pretender with raise skeletons can take just about any province from turn 2.

Soul gate suffers from the fact that their troops are much less numerous than Ashen Empire Ermor's. They are also extremely vulnerable to magical damage. While they might take damage only 25% of the time from the troops of most nations, they are also only able to effect opposing troops 54% of the time with standard MR values. The antimagic spell is the equivalent of giving all of your units a large boost in protection against the Soul Gate forces, as they will have a very hard time causing damage.