What use is death magic?

[Teraswaerto]

The most common death summoning site is probably the Ghoul Cave, which is a far cry from mummies or banes.

[Forrest]

Thanks you have given me much to think on.

I am lvl 6 on construction and evocation(?)(for the eternal prye) and 3 on everything else. Devoting all research to Summoning for now. To get the good death units.

I was about to build a force of ten nature mages with ethreal bows and boots quickness backed by a couple of air mages. Astral and water are Arcoscephale's strong point. I think I can field it in under 10 turns. I fiqure set them for large monsters and see what happens. I hope they will make short work of a stupid dragon pretender and all those bears he summons.

The whole death thing will kick off when I give my revenants some boosts. Which requires my pretender. Dang he is busy.

Any ideas for boosting nature mages when all you have is lvl 1's and +1 nature gem per turn? I am realy sucking wind in nature and blood.

[Endoperez]

Blood isn't usually something you can just tack on to the nation. Don't worry about it with Arcoscephale.


You should have lots of Priestesses. Send them site-searching. That should give you something before or later. Once you have 30 gems, you can empower one to N2 and:
1) forge Thistle Maces, +1 N for anyone wielding it
2) start casting Haruspex, which finds ALL Nature sites in target province.

Nature 1 mages can cast Eagle Eyes, so if they don't have anything else to do they could do well as a bow-squad. Ethereal Crossbows are nice, but MR negates their special effect completely. Try combining them with few Black Bows of Botulf (Death item). Feeble-minded commander have worse magic resistance...
If you get Death/Air mage, Vision's Foe is wonderful. A crossbow with armor-negating damage, that also causes lost eye afflictions?

[Forrest]

Thanks for the heads up.

I had heard they don't hit the way they should and that explains it.

I was planning to use shamen for bowmen as the National Nature priests cost like $70 more per man. They also give me +10 food each. With a nice 2 lvl air mage site I found they should boost to at least 18 precision.

[Shovah32]

So how about:
7xShaman with Ethereal bow, eye of aiming, boots of quickness
3xShaman with Black bows, eye of aiming and boots of quickness

Let them cast eagle eyes and, if possible get some-one casting wind guide.

[Peter Ebbesen]

Shovah32 said:
So how about:
7xShaman with Ethereal bow, eye of aiming, boots of quickness
3xShaman with Black bows, eye of aiming and boots of quickness

Let them cast eagle eyes and, if possible get some-one casting wind guide.

That's an awful lot of gems poured into something that can be wiped out by a single blade wind if unfortunately positioned, though... Useful if you face nasty magicusing thugs or SCs, but against regular troops it is hard to imagine that there aren't other substantially better investment possibilities for the gems.

Let's face it: a mage with 20-30 gems worth of equipment who's able to kill one soldier every 2nd turn (if the soldier fails a MR) had better kill one hell of a good soldier to be worth the cost of equipping him.

[Shovah32]

Forget everything i said in that post, im confused.