Suggestion: Killing all mages should count as "you can become circle mage"

[sandman25dcsss]

After killing all 4 mages you basically won, there is no way to die. And then you still need to complete 2 other conditions like getting 5 apprentices or researching 42 spells before the game recognizes you actually won and allows to fight final battle. I am not going to spend my time on that and will start a new game instead, but other players who are interested in Steam achievements might be disappointed.
Thank you for consideration

[Livy]

Would probably be an idea to make it so that each consecutive mage's tower gets harder to destroy.

[sandman25dcsss]

Originally posted by MrFox1231:

Would probably be an idea to make it so that each consecutive mage's tower gets harder to destroy.

I don't like the idea of being forced to kill mages in specific order. Mages are already quite different in power depending on your armies, I had to think hard how to kill last mage in my current game.

[Livy]

The mages are usually in comparable strength, so if you hit the point where you got a stack that can deal with all resistances, and able to topple a tower then you might as well rush the 3 others.

[Mindeveler]

Originally posted by MrFox1231:

if you hit the point where you got a stack that can deal with all resistances

that's a rather late point for which you either need multiple titans from 4th pages or a bunch of glyphs and very specific buffs.
Some circle mages can be killed long before that.

[sandman25dcsss]

For the record I killed all mages on week 19 on balanced difficulty and I have never seen a tier 4 unit yet. I have no any resistance buffers except a few tier 2 dvarves with active skill for +50% resistance which didn't take part in killing mages.

[xyzapip]

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

For the record I killed all mages on week 19 on balanced difficulty and I have never seen a tier 4 unit yet. I have no any resistance buffers except a few tier 2 dvarves with active skill for +50% resistance which didn't take part in killing mages.

Alchemist?

[sandman25dcsss]

Originally posted by xyzapip:

Alchemist?

Artificer in second starting area. I spammed Keepers like crazy with -90 income, they killed 2 mages. 2 other mages were killed by apprentice with 1 tier 3 unit and the rest were tier 2.

[HozzMidnight]

They need to add a hiring cost for units.

[sandman25dcsss]

Originally posted by HozzMidnight:

They need to add a hiring cost for units.

I am not sure. I had to protect Sevenkeep with 2 apprentices because of +3 slots and keepers, quite high cost for the strategy of spamming "free" units.