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== Harpy Hag Hoodoo ==
{{Air spells}}{{Spell|13|13|18|13|18|13|13|13|0|11|13
Since they are fast, and strike with no retaliation, [[Harpy Hag]]s can be used to attack neutral stacks which are much more powerful than they are.  To make this work, you need to be facing enemy troops with a speed of 4 or less, or use the [[Slow]] or [[Haste]] spells so that your Harpy Hags are moving more than twice as fast as the enemy (or some fortuitously-placed obstacles). You then can use the [[Wait]] function to make the enemy move first, swoop in and attack, then, when they get close, hustle to a new location and repeat (beware [[Morale]] bonuses by the enemy however!). In a multiplayer game this can take some time to do and hence is frowned upon, but early on in a SP game you can use it to clear mines/guardians you would otherwise not be able to, at least until your Dragons become available.  This tactic can basically be done with any non-retaliatory creature (Cerberi, Arch Devils, Sprites, Vampire Lords), but the HH's are the only one to return to their original hex.
| school      = Air Magic
| level      = 2nd
| cost        = 4/2
| duration    = 1 day
| b_effect    = All of the hero's creature troops are displayed as if they were composed of the most powerful creatures in the hero's army. Troop population numbers are represented normally.
| a_effect    = Same as basic effect except troop population quantities are represented as "0".
  | e_effect    = Same as advanced effect except all troops are represented as if populated by the most powerful creature in hero's longest owned town. }} It masks the hero's units on the [[adventure map]] from enemy players.  Disguise is a reconnaissance [[Spell#Adventure spells|adventure spell]].


== Cooking the Books with the Dwarven Treasury ==
Expert Disguise represents all troops in the army as the most powerful creature in hero's starting town. If there are several starting towns, then the longest owned town is chosen in the order: Castle - Conflux - Dungeon - Cove - Tower - Stronghold - Inferno - Fortress, where Castle is the highest priority. If there are no starting towns, then the hero's class native town is chosen.
The [[Dwarven Treasury]] can be extremely useful during long games on larger maps.  If you let your gold accumulate week to week, buying only essential troops and buildings, in a month or so your gold stockpile can mushroom to humonguous levels (1 million gold or more).  The interest rate is equal to Treasuries Owned x 10%, so if you have 4
[[Rampart]] towns with Treasuries, that's 40% per week. If you start with say 100,000 gold, with a daily income of 10,000, you will, after 4 weeks, indeed have over 1 million gold.  But the downside is that a [[Plague]] will kill off half of all unbought troops in your towns, so I'd start saving AFTER a Plague (as I've never seen two Plagues happen within 2-4 months of each other).


== Wraith Bomb ==
[[Category: Spells]]
[[Wraith]]s can be useful after all!  Send out waves of expendable heroes against a dangerous invader, each with 7 1-Wraith stacks, with the aim of reducing his spell points.  You will need lots of extra gold of course to make this work. This of course works better against the AI than it does vs. another human, and is countered by [[Destroy Undead]], but if you have the [[Pendant of Death]]...!  And even getting your enemy to cast Destroy Undead over and over is going to cause him to lose spell points.  Considered a "gamey" strategy by some...
 
== Castle Siege ==
'''Attacker'''
[[Hypnotize]] an enemy troop and open the drawbridge.
 
'''Defender'''
Block an open drawbridge with [[Force Field]].
 
 
== Open-field battle ==
[[Remove Obstacle]] is a possibility when:
* a troop in your army is blocked in its starting position by a battlefield obstacle.
* an enemy shooter is protected by a battlefield obstacle.
 
==Extra nasty Berserk==
If you have [[Berserk]], and are fighting at least two stacks of [[Dendroid Guard]]s and/or [[Dendroid Soldier]]s, try using it to get them to attack each other. If you do, they will bind each other, making them both unable to move.
 
== Using Master Genies ==
When you have [[Master Genie]]s on your hero and have several creatures slots free, split your Master Genies to several stacks so you could benefit from their spell casting ability with additional casts.
 
==No spells, or?==
The [[Orb of Inhibition]] seems slightly bugged. It doesn't stop the [[Armor of the Damned]] or the [[Angelic Alliance]] from casting their spells at the start of combat. Especially in the first case, this can be give you an enourmous advantage.
 
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Revision as of 14:00, 29 March 2020

School of Air Magic
Symbol for the School of Air Magic
Level 1
 Haste
 Magic Arrow *
 View Air
Level 2
 Disguise
 Disrupting Ray
 Fortune
 Lightning Bolt
 Precision
 Protection from Air
 Visions *
Level 3
 Air Shield
 Destroy Undead
 Hypnotize
Level 4
 Chain Lightning
 Counterstrike
Level 5
 Dimension Door
 Fly
 Magic Mirror
 Summon Air Elemental
 Titan's Lightning Bolt Shadow of Death
School of Earth Magic
School of Fire Magic
School of Water Magic
Disguise
School: Air Magic
Level: 2nd
Cost: 4/2
Duration: 1 day
Basic Effect
All of the hero's creature troops are displayed as if they were composed of the most powerful creatures in the hero's army. Troop population numbers are represented normally.
 
Advanced Effect
Same as basic effect except troop population quantities are represented as "0".
 
Expert Effect
Same as advanced effect except all troops are represented as if populated by the most powerful creature in hero's longest owned town.
 
Probability of occurrence (%):
Castle 13
Rampart 13
Tower 18 (13*)
Inferno 18
Necropolis 13
Dungeon 13
Stronghold 13
Fortress 0
Conflux 11
Cove Horn of the Abyss 13
Factory Horn of the Abyss
* Without Library

It masks the hero's units on the adventure map from enemy players. Disguise is a reconnaissance adventure spell.

Expert Disguise represents all troops in the army as the most powerful creature in hero's starting town. If there are several starting towns, then the longest owned town is chosen in the order: Castle - Conflux - Dungeon - Cove - Tower - Stronghold - Inferno - Fortress, where Castle is the highest priority. If there are no starting towns, then the hero's class native town is chosen.

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