communion mechanics

[Valerius]

Originally Posted by JonBrave

Could you/someone please clarify: even if there is a range involved, are you saying that mages help themselves to one another's slaves, unlike gems?? If that's so, it does make planning harder.

It also has advantages, in that if you run out of slaves while in the field you can teleport in another mage and have those slaves used immediately rather than needing a turn to redistribute them as you would with gems.

[Knai]

Originally Posted by Valerius

It also has advantages, in that if you run out of slaves while in the field you can teleport in another mage and have those slaves used immediately rather than needing a turn to redistribute them as you would with gems.

On the other hand, there are some huge disadvantages. Battlefield evocations can't just drain gem pools, but slaves can be slaughtered wholesale. That's a pretty major downside.

With that said, there is also some general screwing around you can do in single player that more than makes up for it. Blood Slave thugs are completely and utterly absurd (and generally worthless), and as such oddly entertaining.

[JonBrave]

Originally Posted by Valerius

It also has advantages, in that if you run out of slaves while in the field you can teleport in another mage and have those slaves used immediately rather than needing a turn to redistribute them as you would with gems.

For those of us who are not very good at all of this it's bad news. I have gotten the hang of letting those who can't spend gems carry around for those who can, so that I can ration. I had been doing same in current game with slaves. I thought I'd noticed that slaves carried by non-BMs were getting used on battlefield... I now know I need to physically separate the carriers from the BMs!