Pretenders useless?

[thejeff]

I finally got around to trying Wrathful Skies again and was again disappointed. It doesn't seem to be an army killer any more.

This time I had a Staff of Storms, so it should have been at full effect. It seemed to only be hitting 10-15 units a round, and since it was a Jotun army, not even killing all of them. There were only 3 rounds of wrath before they reached my poor exhausted mage and killed him with one blow.

Only killed 10 troops and probably some PD.

Has anyone actually made this work in Dom3? It seemed much more effective in Dom2.

[Twan]

WS is very efficient if you have some troops with high HPs / morale 50 to sacrify (say Vine ogres) and face a nation using human units.

A mage can cast WS and retreat, the spell still works (not like fire storm).