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Old September 11th, 2004, 07:40 PM
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Scripts are a set of commands for your armies and commanders .

I cannot help you regarding how often to search for sites, as I am not doing it enough myself (you do not want poor advice, do you?).

Ritual spells (that are cast outside battle) require a spellcaster who must be in a province with a laboratory, and you need enough magical gems when giving your mage the "Cast Ritual" order. The gems must be available in storage at your laboratory as well (gems on the caster should be counted for casting the ritual, but I have never attempted it).

Temples are helpful to recruit priests (in the provinces that have these units) among other independent units, but you should use them near the line where you are facing an enemy Dominion. Preaching is also an effective way of increasing your Dominion, and having a temple in a province gives your priests a virtual +1 bonus for preaching purposes in this province. In other words, a Priest with a level 2 in Holy Magic can only raise the Dominion of this province up to level 2, while the same Priest would increase the Dominion of a province with a Temple up to level 3.

Lastly, with every five Temples you have an increase of 1 of your Dominion strength, which is a rating of the spiritual power of your Pretender. A higher Dominion strength enables you to convert provinces more quickly, and makes you more "resistant" to enemy Dominions/more likely to convert provinces under an enemy Dominion.
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but I don't understant, what do u mean by scripts???

Orders for your troops to follow. Press t when you have an army selected.
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Old September 12th, 2004, 04:25 AM

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Thx Alneyan and Molog!
If I build a new lab (I only got one for the moment) can I use the gems from the other lab??? I mean, are gems automatically transferable??? And who creates lab??? I suppose magicians. Ah, and how do I give gems to my commanders???
As to Magic sites, Angerboda the Great Hag just came, and he is a A3 D3 N2 B3 magician so I guess he will be my "site searcher"; but he's has 13 pts of research also...
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Old September 12th, 2004, 05:03 AM
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Orders for your troops to follow. Press t when you have an army selected.
To be more precise: You select provinces, in some of which happens to be an army of yours.

And there are orders for the squads and for commanders seperatly.

By pressing "t" you get to the army setup screen. Next to the green minimaps there are the orders. Squads can only have one order (leftclick on the "click here to set battle orders"), commanders can have 5 single-turn orders (those above the line) and a following 'general' order.
e.g. (hold)(hold)attack nearest or (fireball)(fireball)(fireball)(fireball)(fireball) cast spells
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