What's the best 100 gold National mage?

[Blitz]

Communion slaves? Yes. Mind duellers.....well, not unless you're duelling somebody really important and are prepared to sacrifice scads of capitol-only units that are difficult to replace, and are communioned up for such a task. If you really wanted to perform sacrificial duelling with an S1/2 mage, I'd recommend the more readily available Illuminati. They're easier to replace when they inevitably die trying to duel somebody's hapless S4 pretender to death.

And, of course, capitol-onlyness severely hampers your ability to deploy them

Well I was looking more to a pure stats based analysis, but even in the Black Forest context, I don't mind using them to deul. I usually make one every turn throughout the game, so the capitol-only restriction isn't really a problem. It's not like the BF Ulm has any other leaders you are going to want to build before you have a second fort going anyway. As for getting them to the front lines... that's what winged boots are for =).

[ June 04, 2004, 08:42: Message edited by: Blitz ]