Game report: Nature summoner with lizardmen

[Seravy]

what about giving sprites missile immunity and caster in exchange of flying?

...then they are just weaker magicians - less than 3 moves. Except for one small detail. They are a Nature creature, so they'll be able to cast Petrify. even if you don't have it yet. I definitely don't want to remove flying from them though.

I've started uploading the game I won : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDBhGfqz...e=youtu.be

I'll start another game with fewer retorts later today.

[Catwalk]

Is there any other reason than personal preference and flavor for not wanting to remove Flying from sprites? They're immensely ubalanced. I tried to replicate the strategy with Draconian Bowmen, it's slower and not nearly as potent.

[Seravy]

Started the new game, fair power, land, etc, 10 nature, conjurer, specialist, same as your settings.

Had a node with 2 earth elementals and a war bear next to my capital. While I used sprites for this out of convenience, I'm pretty sure a pack of war bears could have taken it out as well. Earth Elementals are slow so positioning them carefully should have even allowed them to survive the battle.
I also found a sorcery node on a nearby island - again, bears could have easily taken out the 6 phantom warriors there, but I used sprites instead because we are testing those now.
Other than these nodes, I found a few crappy locations with few skeletons, 1 guardian spirit or war bear, these contributed about 100-150 gold each. I also found one with 5 spirits and a unicorn, this one gave me ~600 mana.
I found a neutral gnoll city, but the sprites got killed on the way by an enemy attack. I haven't summoned any since then, they can't survive attacks from wizards and there are enemies everywhere.
Overall, sprites were ok, but at best medicore this game.
Bear and spiders on the other hand, took out a lair with 2 fire giants, and conquered 3 enemy cities already.
If I started the game with them instead of sprites, I might have eliminated a wizard already and I would have the 2 nodes anyway. (one of which, the Sorcery on the island, I've lost meanwhile - the sprites were inadequate to defend it against a single unit of nagas, and got killed by Aether Sparks. If I had a bear or two there, I could have defended it.)

...the game is starting to get interesting so I'll probably finish it.