attempt for a mid-lategame strategic protection guide(domes). info needed :)

[Boron]

Originally posted by Sheap:
I think what happens (based on reading forums not experience) is that all the spells which target "half the army" will all hit the same half of the army. So you can lose at most half your mages per turn.

hm that would be very simple . i thought every of these spells targets randomly about 50% of the units present in the province .

still if you are correct this would still be disasterous :
when unprotected by domes : if you have 50 mages in your capitol 1-2 flames from the sky will probably kill almost 25 mages .
even if you spread your mages that you have only 10 mages / province :
20 gems for a simple flames from the sky will probably still kill 2-3 mages .
now guess they hit your summoner enchanced with several path increasing items .

5 fire needed for flames from the sky is not very high . i think lategame you can expect from everyone with natural firemages with whom you are at war at least an attack on either 4-5 provinces with 1 flames from the sky each or 4-5 on 1 province .
especially machaka is there fearful : probably high base fire income by fiever fetishes + not hard to get some F5 casters for them .


how do you protect against that ?

and can e.g. abysian demonbred be damaged by flames from the sky because of their 100% fire resistence ?