| Destroy Undead
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| School:
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air magic
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| Level:
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3rd
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| Cost:
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15
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| Duration:
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instant
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| Basic effect
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| All undead creature troops receive (10 + (power x 10)) damage.
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| Advanced effect
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| All undead creature troops receive (20 + (power x 10)) damage.
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| Expert effect
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| All undead creature troops receive (50 + (power x 10)) damage.
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| Probability of occurrence (%):
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Destroy Undead is a 3rd level spell in the School of air magic. It causes damage to all undead creatures on the battlefield – including the casters troops.
The artifact Pendant of Death makes the wearer troops immune to this spell.
Discussion
Destroy Undead is at its best when fighting against small number of scattered low-tier undead creatures. The damage does not scale enough to cause serious damage when fighting agains larger armies with stronger forces. One can easily calculate, that with a power skill of 20, Destroy Undead spell only does 250 points of damage at expert level, which means about two Dread Knights. Naturally, Orb of the Firmament and/or Sorcery can increase the damage, but typically there are more usefull spells available than Destroy Undead for harming the enemy.
Spell vs Creatures
| Spell Power |
Dmg per Power Point |
Basic Air Magic Skill |
Advanced Air Magic Skill |
Expert Air Magic Skill |
Vampire Lords (40hp) killed (depending on Air Magic Skill, Expert to Basic) |
Skeleton Warriors killed (6hp each) (Expert to Basic Air)
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| 1 |
10 |
20 |
30 |
60 |
One to none |
10 to 3
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| 2 |
10 |
30 |
40 |
70 |
One to none |
11 to 5
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| 3 |
10 |
40 |
50 |
80 |
Two to One |
13 to 6
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| 4 |
10 |
50 |
60 |
90 |
Two to One |
15 to 8
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| 5 |
10 |
60 |
70 |
100 |
Two to One |
16 to 10
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| 6 |
10 |
70 |
80 |
110 |
Two to One |
18 to 11
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| 7 |
10 |
80 |
90 |
120 |
Three to Two |
20 to 13
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| 8 |
10 |
90 |
100 |
130 |
Three to Two |
21 to 15
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| 9 |
10 |
100 |
110 |
140 |
Three to Two |
23 to 16
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| 10 |
10 |
110 |
120 |
150 |
Three to Two |
25 to 18
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Undead Creatures
Orb of the Firmament and Sorcery might help increase the damage dealt apart from spell points.
Animate Dead can over time repair the damage given mana points but requires some turns as it is not a splash heal as opposed to Destroy Undead damaging every undead on the battlefield.
