Tip: Site Searching Strategy

[Meglobob]

I really like voice of tiamat its great for water nations, I believe it gives them a gem adavantage over the land nations and saves alot of mage time. Also its 8W gems which I always tend to have loads of anyway.

Its an halfway house for water nations between Acashic record and individual site searching. Well air is rare, the water/fire/earth more than make up for it. As soon as I get it, I mass cast it on every water province. You usually get 1 or 2 free castles this way so saves you a load of money as well.

Great spell.

[Edi]

Voice of Tiamat also has the advantage of being a conjuration spell, so it's in the same school as Dark Knowledge and Voice of Apsu and it covers all of the elements for seas, giving some damn good research optimization. There are no blood sites underwater, so that leaves Haruspex, DK and Arcane Probing. AP comes from evo which everyone needs sooner or later.

[magemaster]

I prefer to send my mages out, and when one can't move into a province that hasn't already been searched, I have them build a lab and then they can cast/forge/research right there.

[Folket]

I do belive that Earth is most common under water. In all my games as a water nation I have had huge earth income.