Rune Mages ruin my game :(

[tiberiu]

Originally Posted by namad

actually this is where you're incorrect.
droids can revive an infinitely large number of droids, and via sacrifice create a quite large amount of non-droid revives as well, however eventually you'll run out of mana, unless maybe you're enemy has a stack of non-retaliation units you can set up an infinite mana combo via mana spring with.
in balance for this the droids are otherwise fairly mediocre units without a lot else going for them.

Sorry I don't want to derail the discussion about Rune Mages, but what exactly I am incorrect in? You don't seem to understand that Droid use is completly separated from mana. It's not a combination of spells that make Droids grossly overpowered. I simply don't care about Sacrifice if all that you need to finish the game is 3 stacks of Droids.

Also about running out of mana,(which is moot in a Droid discussion anyway) with Chargers and Rune Word mana is virtually infinite. You don't need to resort to Magic Spring.

You say they are otherwise fairly mediocre units. I don't think so, they have good resist, good initiative, good speed. The melee one has a very useful ability to drag units while still attacking them, this can be used to drag them into traps. Also it casts area defenseless which is powerful in many situations.