Magic Usage & Magic Resistance, an idea

[Thunder_Gr]

As it is now, magic resistance comes after Combat III and Combat promotions give +5 to spell damage and empower promotions to summons.
I think that it would be a good idea to have magic resistance available from the beginning, and tie the spell damage and empower promotions to the magic resistance instead of combat.
So at layer 1 you get magic resistance, +5 to spell damage, all summons get empower I.
At Layer 2, you get [element] resistance, +5 to spell damage, all summons get empower II, etc.

This way, magic resistance would come more natural to spell casters, as it should, and anti-magic troops would be worth considering, since the promotions would unlock from the beggining.

In addition, Magic users wouldn't follow the combat promotions, as it already seems to be quite unnatural for them.

What do you think?

 

[Wits]

I like your proposition thematically. I would also love to have an earlier counter to magic; at the moment it's a tad too far away. Would be cool if one could really protect them precious zombies from the light of the life side.

This change would make levelling spellcasters a bit harder, though. Maybe even too much?

 

[[to_xp]Gekko]

nice idea. I definitely agree that some promotions should be available sooner. magic resistance is one, guardsman is another, etc.

 

[MiKa523]

May I assist you in your suggestion with the poll/thread I opened a week ago about this topic:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=305541

Apparently the majority doesn't use it (much). Those promotions really need some magic