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First off, spells are your best friend. Levelling up a mage champion early while judiciously saving up mana can really help in tough fights. I've always played as an empire with death worship so I have access to a bunch of debuffs that take the bite out critters and AI troops alike. Casting "wither" on a group you're going to attack helps quite a bit even before the start of battle. When in a tough fight I generally move everybody back for a few turns until my

Interesting. That makes a pet ophidian quite a valuable commodity. Don't think the alchemist who gives you one for killing the sand golem knows it's true value. I'm curious how Warlord Verga got his paws on an ophidian, I didn't think the AI sovs could do quests. Is there some kind of ophidian egg you can get in a goodie hut?

I'm a huge fan of how you can snake your cities in this game and always grow my cities to either reach resources or link up the zones of control between my cities. However I'm often frustrated by how my units sometimes move out of or through my snaking cities. This starts becoming a problem when I have a road network connecting my cities AND there is a road loop connecting one end of a city with the other end of the same city. When trying to move a unit out of city,

In my latest game Lord Verga of the Yithril declared war shortly after meeting me. When his army crossed into my borders I tried casting Wither, Freeze, and Tremor to either delay their advance or weaken it a bit. I got the following message, "Target is protected from offensive spells." Can anyone explain why that is? I looked at all his equipment and traits and none of them said anything about magic immunity. There was an ophidian in that army which is immune to magic

I hope this thread doesn't get derailed by Willie's strong opinions, but I think this is still the best place to post some really poor AI decision making that happened in my last game. A forest drake's lair spawned a wandering army of pack drakes a little ways from my first city. I avoided the pack drakes like the plague, knowing they'd tear anything I had at the moment into bloody ribbons. Two of the AIs in the game had a very different assessment. <p

I want to throw my 2 cents in. I bought the game nearly a month ago and after having sunk over a hundred hours into it I can't say I don't love it or that I didn't get more than my money's worth. However quite a few things mentioned in this thread are taking away the challenge and continued enjoyment for me. In the tactical part of the game, spiders webbing webbed units, units attacking a champion with diamond skin, or enemies casting spells on my magic imm

[quote who="webusver" reply="19" id="3417908"] I'm going to change Administrator trait to give small global effect, like trait Noble. In its turn trait Noble is also strengthened - it gives +1 growth in every city. People should really like their noble sovereign, as well as players, I hope I also rebalanced trait Hunter. Earlier it was almost useless but now hunters supply cities with food, adding +50 food to every town. So towns may grow quicker and bigger. Sovereign H

[quote who="Primal_Savage" reply="28" id="3416913"] There's a mod for that (now): XtraNoMoreRoads [/quote] Awesome! I can't wait to try it out. One question though, on the linked page you write that it can function as a one-tile "Salt the Earth"; does the spell also remove tile yields or alter terrain (swamp to plains or remove forests and rivers)?

Is there any way to remove roads from territory that is either yours or neutral? Part of the reason for this is my mild OCD and the urge to make the road links between my cities aesthetically pleasing. The other part is to create buffer zones in neutral lands so enemy armies take longer to get to my territory. This didn't really become an issue until I researched the tech that automatically builds roads between all your cities AND started capturing enemy cities.