MA T'ien Ch'i - a little of this, a little of that and BAM!

[Baalz]

Another option is empowering, it's really not that prohibitively expensive for what you get. Consider if you'd have to summon 2 specters because the first one didn't get a S random then that's 40D, wheras if you empower somebody to S1 it's just 50 pearls (which can more easily be alchemized if you need them). Plus, with a little work you can empower a stealthy flier to give you better mobility. Just one stealthy astral mage cleverly deployed is often all it takes to convince your opponent to stop mindhunting - he's got no idea how many or where your astral guys are...

[ExHeretic]

Empowering would be very good option if i didn't have spectres reseached yet. I really need the astral gems for other stuff and i really dislike alchemizing (i have no idea how i should write that word =P ) gems. There is no useless gems in dominions . If i get spectre whit wrong randoms that means i just got one more dark knowledge caster...

Flying is very good idea. I think i will give some winged shoes to the spectres. I guess 2-3 of this dudes should be plenty enough.

To thejeff: thanks for the tip. The problem is i am playing heads up

[Redeyes]

Isn't astral a 40% chance per level to protect against mind hunt? The astral mage would be more likely to die than to feeblemind the caster.

I might be misremembering.