Using Wrathful Skies w/ National Troops

[Blofeld]

I have a painful experience - my first use of Wrathful Skies.

Enemy besieged my castle with a force of an Arch Devil, 30 each devils and imps and a hundred infantrymen. I frantically teleported in anything I could.

My Air Queen with staff of Storms cast Wrathful Skies, Air mages cast Thunder Wards - pretty much every my troop had 50% shock resistance.

Battle didn't Last very long - about 10 rounds. Invading army was obliterated, as well as 12 of my commanders and all my troops, safe for a dozen crossbowmen and a few mechanical men. I lost loads of equipment. The only commanders which survived had air magic and cast Resist lightning, which gives 100 SR.

Never, ever use Wrathful skies with non-immune troops.
50% SR just isn't enough.

[Peter Ebbesen]

Blofeld said:
Never, ever use Wrathful skies with non-immune troops.
50% SR just isn't enough.

...Unless you can cast mass regeneration and your troops have high base hitpoints, that is.

...But as a general rule, I must agree with you: Don't take anything along without SR when doing a Wrathful Skies attack that you cannot afford to lose.

[alexti]

Blofeld said:
Never, ever use Wrathful skies with non-immune troops.

I would rather say "Don't use Wrathful skies with non-immune troops unless you're prepared to lose them"

[archaeolept]

it would be nice if it were more of a viable option to protect troops. even 75% resist would be ok, i think.

[Thufir]

Thanks for the replies, everyone. It's nice not to have to learn about this one by painful experience.