I have fought 20+ turn battles with each turn giving the same amount of mana. I'm pretty sure it doesn't slowly decline. I agree completely on the defence part. I rather lose a few troops less WHEN I get hit, than kill a few more on a hit.. The enemy will die anyway, the only things that matters to me is how few men I lose, and to be able to gain as much in a battle as possible - spirit exp for example.

I'm not sure. I was fighting the battle when you take over the castle in the dwarves land full of demons & I STOPPED regaining mana probably 10 turns in. It was weird. I never usually have that many turns so I figured there was a time limit. Anyone know for sure?

I've seen this several times in longer battles.

It seems to be a tiered effect.

With max concentration you get +6 mana per turn. I've noticed that after several turns that goes down to +3 and then +2 and then +1.

I think it's actually a really good game mechanic actually. Because if they didn't do this i would just kill all the enemy, leave a couple of low level troops and just resurrect my entire army before moving on. Can't do that with diminishing mana...

cheers,
DW

That's the tactic I used when I was a knight even. I had a 5 mana regeneration, i'd play with enemy troops untill all my own ressable troops were ressed. I'm still sure i've had a mana regeneration at turn 20+ in multiple battles.. though I may be mistaken about the amount that would regenerate.

At the start of turn 10 check the message area, you'll see something like:

Your soldiers are tiring, concentration is harder, mana and rage generation are halved.

On turn 20 you'll see something like:

The battle is long, your soldiers have lost their bloodlust, you can no longer gain mana or rage.

I'm playing a mage, but don't have the concentration skill (yet), normal difficulty, I'm level about 12, but I started noticing these messages when I started making battles last longer to exploit Sacrifice.

I regain 2 mana per turn upto turn 10, then 1 mana per turn upto turn 20.
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I am mage and for me it was

Att/int/def > leadership > mana > rage

was hard at the begining but now at level 20 every fight is so easy

atm I have --> +15 attack, +24 Def, +34 Intellect, 99 Mana, 50 Rage and 11200 Leafership

currently lvl 19 warrior.. attack 16, def 26, int 5, 70 mana, 100 rage, 12500 leadership..

personally ive been going for leadership/rage ahead of attack/def/mana

I started a new game as a mage. Funny thing is, only now I notice that I NEVER found a +attack spot ingame with my level 22 knight.(I didn't even know what they looked like) Found one with my lvl 6 mage. I'm on 3 atk, 4 def, 8 int with 1200ish leadership.

For me it's Int > Def > Attack > Mana > Leadership > Rage.

Though leadership will move up on higher levels as it's simply not worth it yet. Had to pick mana once, other than that only picked stats.

crazy stats. way better then my lvl 30 mage. u had luck in your game with the + items for sure.

mind post an screenshot and show us whut type of items u got?

My level 25 mage has:

Attack: 6
Defense: 22
Intelligence: 39
Leadership: ~14000

Rage: 54
Mana: 107

Demon wife. No kids.

My armageddon hits for ~6k. Way too powerful :9