Who's up for it?

EitB (Erebus in the Balance) is a modmod of the all beloved Fall from Heaven 2 mod of Civ4, developed on RB for use in multiplayer games. FFH is Civ with elves, dwarves, magic.... if you hold on until the end there might even be dragons, or
 

Game mode is PBEM. I would hope we get together 5 players, but at this point that would require more than the usual suspects. So newbies feel welcome! The last game that was played was my first one, and I greatly enjoyed it, and only got mackoti'd in the end like everyone else. It's definitely possible to join without having played in a game before and have a great experience.

Rather surprised to see there's no dev diary discussions going on here although I guess most of you are over in either my MoM fans discord or MoM fans facebook, or in the official MuHa Dev and Slitherine publisher MoM discords discussing them haha.

If not though then I thought I'd better post about their latest 9th dev diary that has a application link for people to apply to be involved in beta testing!!!

Ninth Dev diary:
http://muhagames.com/master-of-magic-dev-diary-9/



For those who haven't seen all the previous dev diaries here they are...

Eight dev diary
http://muhagames.com/master-of-magic-dev...uary-2022/



Seventh dev diary
http://muhagames.com/master-of-magic-dev...uary-2022/



Sixth dev diary
http://muhagames.com/mom-dev-diary-6-december-2021/



Fifth dev diary
http://muhagames.com/dev-diary-5-november-2021/



Fourth dev diary
http://muhagames.com/mom-dev-diary-4-october-2021/



Third dev diary
https://muhagames.com/mom-dev-diary-3-september-2021/



Second dev diary
http://muhagames.com/mom-dev-diary-2-august-2021/



First dev diary
http://muhagames.com/dev-diary-1-june-2021/

Simple question: does anyone know why troll magicians only have 2 movement when all other magicians have 3 movement?

I tend to think of magicians as primarily a defensive unit, so normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but trolls absolutely *need* to take their magicians on the offense, it's the only counter to flying/fast units (barring magic band-aids like web). In my experience, the subpar magician speed tends to drag down the offensive potential of the entire race. You can only go as fast as your slowest unit, after all. This seems counterproductive since trolls are supposed to be used offensively due to an otherwise poor economy. Pretty much the first thing I do when I play trolls is look around for a draconian city to capture to get air ships. But again, this feels like a band-aid.

Not exactly the biggest issue, the race is playable and all, but is the 2 movement speed intentional? If so, what's the reasoning behind it?

I recall that some years ago, a debate regarding overpowered sprites was taking place. As of now, no adjustments to them has been made.
What is the current state of affairs? In my opinion, they are not "overpowered" as such, but they are often a free path to 2-3 free sorcery nodes. I believe that should not happen as easily as now. How about the suggestions that instead of changing sprites you just modify the sorcery nodes so that usually at least one water elemental is included?
The thing is that picking that strat in most circumstances has no downsides (except two picks). Since it is such a cheap trick, I believe adjusting sorcery nodes would mostly resolve the issue. 

I believe conquering nodes early should be possible; but this is the most lopsided way. Hell Hounds work, but they suffer losses.

Seems i just cant get away from pitboss's..

Are you up for another one?

Blue team:
T-hawk
Azoth
El Grillo
JR4

Red team:
Charriu
Sunrise089
Commodore
Pindicator

Im "somewhat" new to LoL as im only level 26 in game. Been playing a variety of TFT/Rift/ARAM with mostly TFT/ARAM as i play with a work buddy who isnt a huge fan of Rift for various reasons. I was curious if anyone else would be up for playing sometime?

Some say crusaders and apprentices are overpowered.
I would like to try and exploit that. Can anyone recommend me possible strategies?
There once was a debate about apprentices, as to which spell would be best.

I think it is phantom warriors. Focus magic is tempting, but potentially wasted on a frail unit (but, on the other hand, they are like cheap magicians).
Focus magic on sprites is different bc you can (at least in the beginning) choose their battles.
Fire bolt never achieves anything in my games; healing is of course also nice but then you need sb who actually wins the battle. Warp creature is great, but not reliable. 

But, how are they overpowered? They get killed rather easily. 

As for crusaders, obviously heroism works, but they cannot hit fliers.

Thanks for your input.

Due to a player having been banned   we need a replacement.

The package includes: Charly of the HRE, BTS with just slight modifications to corporations, deity difficulty, map size small , 48 hrs real time timer. Starts were balanced for leaders. We are just on turn 5, so you have complete freedom to make it your own game. The player in question was highly capable and I would assume placed a reasonable capital.

I wonder: Does focus magic also increase a bowman unit's shooting strength by three or does it just transform it into a magical attack?
If you had flame blade, holy weapon and focus magic on an ultra elite draconian bowman unit, what would its stats be? And what would be its to hit-level?