Water Magic

[TomD]

I like the way water provinces create some geography on the map- continents, bottle necks, ports etc. Without them you have to rely on mountains to provide strategic interest and they slow movement down to a crawl for most armies.

Of course you need to have the self control not to snap up the water provinces for yourself. I view it as a kind of "militarising space" kind of thing. As long as the AI doesn't go into the water I won't either. Once they do all gloves are off...

[Fate]

It could be seen as an anti-SC thing. They could get 1 level of water magic and not have to use up a slot.

[NTJedi]

Endoperez said:
Since Water mages' only special ability in DomII was their ability to go underwater, I doubt they were meant not to have it...

TomD said:
I like the way water provinces create some geography on the map- continents, bottle necks, ports etc. Without them you have to rely on mountains to provide strategic interest and they slow movement down to a crawl for most armies.

I also like having water provinces on my maps, yet I play multiplayer games with computer opponents which means having no water provinces to give the computer opponents a fair game.

Fate said:
It could be seen as an anti-SC thing. They could get 1 level of water magic and not have to use up a slot.

Maybe the change to water magic was explained to some of the beta_testers. It would be nice to know the reason(s). Whatever the reason(s) behind changing water magic, it has unfortunately hurt the computer opponents.

[dirtywick]

I really don't like that change either.