What are your favorite battlefield spells?

[Humakty]

Thunder strike is real good for two reasons I think : low research cost, and the boost all air mages get to precision. The only flaw is the high fatigue. For long battles I tend to think FFs are better, even if you never really know were it will land.(fire mage are usually old, and this impacts greatly precision)
The best casters not using gems are for me dragon anathemants : FF spamming with no risk to kill your troops.

[Saxon]

Coolest would be Charm, Enslave Mind and Apostasy. Nothing quite like turning the enemy against himself. Also nice to have more troops at the end of the battle than at the start.

If you define favorite as most used, then it is the bread and butter Body Ethereal and Luck.

[thejeff]

The problem with Thunder Strike is the small area of effect. It's great against thugs (if they're not immune) or small groups of elite troops, but lousy against hordes.

Until you get to the high-end gem using spells, Air is difficult to use against large numbers of chaff.

[Endoperez]

There's very little lightning-immune chaff, though, and you need Air to protect against Air.

[thejeff]

Granted, but you can't kill chaff with lightning. Or, at least, you can't kill enough of them. 50 fatigue from a 3A mage for 3 targets? It's hard to get enough 3A mages to kill even a few hundred troops that way.

Wrathful Skies or Shimmering Fields work, but need high end Air mages.
Wrathful Skies needs a Storm and either a SC caster (preferably AQ) or a willingness to sacrifice your own chaff to give it time to work, which isn't very useful in a war of attrition.

I was just playing Man fighting off Ermor's hordes of Long dead horse and I was desperate for anything that could actually do area damage.

[WraithLord]

I love smite in early game.

Then, mind burn and soul slay.

Then, charm and enslave.

But of course, 90% of the battlefield spells have their uses. Its all situational.

[llamabeast]

I do like my fireballs in the early game. Generally they kill a whole square and fatigue everyone nearby, and they are very easy to research and cast.

[Ironhawk]

My most used spell is probably Falling Fire. Always handy and easy to boost to, even with only moderate mages.

Paralyze is another favorite for the same reason.

Control Undead is a personal fav too, just because its so much fun to steal someone else's Tartarians.

[DonCorazon]

Frozen heart is nice, especially against all those Marble Armor wearing thugs. Best part is the W1 makes it a snap to cast.

[Rytek]

My favorite battlefield spell would be acid bolt. Ask DonCorazon what a few D9 blessed Celestial masters spamming acid bolt does to a E9 Cyclops and his accompanying Abyysian troops.