Hi, I'm resurrecting this as in 25 turns both Lord of Fire and me will call of the peace treaty and WAR begins.
I'm controlling most of the New World right now. Hyborem is willing to capitulate and turn vassall, and he even offers a city of his four cities in the deal.
If I recall it right, every unit of Lord of Fire I'll kill will resurrect as a Mercurian unit right? So, could I adopt Hyborem as a vasall, turn evil so he will get my dead units and use them against Lord of Fire and Basium? How do I turn evil, using death mana?
Also, some of my forests burnt, how can I regrow them? I tried casting bloom on them but can't, the spell icon won't get lit.
I've got a nice army myself, but I'm wishing I had promoted magic resistance on some of my units to be able to promote them to fire resistance for when the war starts, as he's got Govanion who teaches fire II (and I think fire III) to most of his units and he can unleash a fire holocaust on me. That would be another con to signing peace with Hyborem, if I keep the war going on I can get some more experience for my troops.
Built the Tower of Alteration to get some magic protection though.
Also: I've got a node which I dispelled and rebuilt as Chaos, to build the Necromancy Tower. I'm thinking of scrapping off that idea, and dispel it again, and rebuild it as either:
a) Fire node. I've got two fire nodes in an island near the Old World and this would be the third. I could then start pumping out adepts with fireballs to counter his.
b) Air node. Then I would build another raw node I've got in the newly conquered lands to Hyborem into another Air node and get 3 of them, and I could do the same but with adepts with maelstorm. This option has got the pro that both air nodes would be in the new world and the other one in my palace, so they would be not as exposed to raids by him, in case he tries to assault the big island south of the old world where both my fire nodes lie.
What would be a better spell to resist his eventual attack? He's got a lot of magician troops with fire promotions, thanks to that damned Govanion.
There's always c, of course: which would be build it into another sphere, build the other raw node and dispel one of the fire nodes to build it into the same sphere. Problem is, which one?
What do you guys think?