How do you spend your Gems in the early-mid game?

[Edratman]

This one is a big one for me: Air- bows for commanders, scripted to fire rear.

[Xietor]

In the 3 mp games I am playing:

Alpaca-Pangaea-1st spell i put up-mother oak

Epic Heroes-Shinuyama-1st spell i put up-Well of Misery

Big Game-MA Ctis-ruthlessly attacked the whole game so

Death-bane lords, gems for shadow blast

Water-boots quickness, frost brand, bottles of water, rime hauberk

Nature-boots, ring regen, amulets

Astral-spell focus, luck pendants, s1 boosters,

fire n/a

Earth n/a

air n/a

The spell I would most like to get up-haunted forest

[sum1lost]

I recently started spamming spells like blight, hurricane, and the locust thing, and I love it. love love love it. Hit somebodies capital with all three and you can cost them something like 500-1000 gold in a turn.

So, earth, air, and nature.

[Endoperez]

Spamming even one of them at the enemy's capital works. They rise unrest, and once unrest is over 100 (10 castings of any one of them will raise it way above 100) they can't recruit from their capital. It's a nasty tactic.

[Xietor]

Spamming spells on enemy capitals is a luxury. If you are 1 fighting 3-4 other nations, you may need every gem for thugs/outfitting thugs to defend your own provinces.

If your opponent is using summoned troops to a large degree,
spamming spells on his capital may not be effective. It is always fun though!

[sum1lost]

You might think it is a luxury, but early in the game, thugs don't really exist. Those spells do.

[Xietor]

I agree. The spells, including rain of toads, are excellent spells. Many times, however, I just cannot afford to spare the gems, especially if i am saving for mother oak or some other global.

[HoneyBadger]

I occasionally like to spam the spell "maggots". It works really well in games where I'm playing nature against, say, Ashen Empire.