Luck/Order scales after 2.06 Patch

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Arryn:
I already have over a dozen mages.

Only a dozen? Then you really don't have any magical power to speak of.

More just aren't worth the bother as they don't survive combat, I have a 3:1 margin of research on the #2 AI, and I'm limited by my gem income.

Mages easily survive combat if you position them properly. If you are limited by your gemincome then you haven't searched your provinces throughly enough, or are playing on a small map with a very low probability of magic sites.

By the way, many of the strategies people are fond of for multiplayer aren't significant for those of us playing solo ...

That's a nonsensical statement. Any strategy that works against a thinking opponent will work just as well against an AI>