More thinking on S&A

[thejeff]

I tried the n9 bless with S&A. It was nice on the Water Demons, but I lost too many mages (and fire demons) berserk charges.

Sacred mages and nature blesses don't mix.

F9W9, now that's sweet...

[quantum_mechani]

thejeff said:

Sacred mages and nature blesses don't mix.

I mix them all of the time and it is almost never an issue. With a fragile mage there is not much margin between a hit that berzerks them or one that kills them.

[shovah]

not to mention the fact that unless your jotun or something if your mages start getting hit your in trouble

[KissBlade]

I'd have to chime in, I used to think berserk sucks for mages but after watching a master of the five elements get killed by one stinking arrow, I think it's not a worry ...

[shovah]

exactly, almost all non jotun mages get killed by something that hurts them unless they are heavily armoured. and imo any vunerable mage should be placed so that they will not be targetted

[Tom_Scudder]

And jotun mages aren't sacred (except for the niefel jarls, and it's not exactly a tragedy if one of those guys charges into combat).

[Cainehill]

Hmm. Guess I got in the habit of thinking "no nature bless with sacred mages" back when I was always playing CW Pangaea, who has the sacred undead Pans. Probably also from sacred mages taking a single point of damage from spells (or because they had mistform up).

[thejeff]

I've had mages survive being hit by arrows many times. If it's melee attacks, then yeah, they're in trouble already. Berserk won't make a difference.

It's worse with the fire demons, since they're more likely to be targeted with arrows. Tough enough to take a shot, but quite fragile once they've closed.

Are they the only sacred ranged unit? (Not counting javelins and the like)