spreading the drain???

[djtool]

I"m wondering if its practical to design a nation that stays away from mages and uses the drain scale to reduce they're potentcy to poop.

i'm really not sure what the effect of casting in a drain 3 environment is. I understand the books answer...but not the 'hard numbers' effects.

and if this is a plausible direction to go...would it be better to attempt it with the nation of Man instead of Ulm...since the temples are cheaper and easier to throw up.

[Norfleet]

Even Drain-3 doesn't take that much bite out of the mages, it's only about 30% extra fatigue....but all mages will fatigue out fast anyway unless you have reliefing of some kind, so that's irrelevant.

[PvK]

It gives +3 magic resistance to your guys, but that too isn't going to clear the world of magic by itself.

It's basically the Ulm approach though.

PvK

[djtool]

bummer that it isn't an effective approach. it'd be cool to do for a change.

[Vicious Love]

The problem with hostile drain is that it affects research, which is usually centralized and safe from enemy dominions, about as much as it does combat.
For any nation save Ulm(Construction path only) and Mictlan(Mostly Blood and Construction), that could get awfully problematic.
However, since blood has always been more a summoning path than a battlefield path, I foresee RELATIVELY few other disads for drain-based Mictlan.

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by PvK:
It gives +3 magic resistance to your guys, but that too isn't going to clear the world of magic by itself.

It's basically the Ulm approach though.

PvK

Believe it's only +1.5 MR, which I think means that both Drain 2 and Drain 3 only give +1 MR. If it were actually +3 MR, it might be worthwhile.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Vicious Love:
For any nation save Ulm(Construction path only) and Mictlan(Mostly Blood and Construction), that could get awfully problematic.

Ulm definetly wants more than just constrution. Alteration, conjuration, and evocation also have great spells for them to research.