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I've been playing a standard Orc (mining and military science, run waves of nazgul everywhere, profit), but I'm rather curious about how well they could pull a mid-level mage. I've been using magic science 2, so I can spam mages in a city and immediately crush walls or locust opponents. Has anyone tried getting them to 4, 5, or even 6? Are there any real benefits to doing so, or is Orc much more easily played with military emphasis?

if youre a farmer

Their magic science is relatively cheap as well, costs next to nothing to get to at least 7 magic which I like to go to for ownage which can be awesome for an orc.

Oh, man. I never even thought about the ownage spell. That would be fantastically easy to use, too, wouldn't it?

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I think I'll give it a try next time a world opens, then.

Last era on fant Poodles had a orc mage that ownaged a blocker of mine and then proceded to ownage some of my pure naz reinforcements. I was shocked and appaled. 

But like Bran said, u really need some farming to pull it off preferably with some added StG-money since you need to spend alot of cash on sciences before you can go miningsci.

I went as an Orc mage on Valhalla last era and it went surprisingly well. Me and another guy spawned 10 days late and only got maybe a week of building up before we started to get attacked, but my magic was enough to stop all of them. It bought us enough to time to build up enough military power to stop some of the most powerful armies, and thats spawning incredibly late. We also gained two other members who started late, and between us we really hurt the most powerful player by popping all his stuff and making him call in backup from his whole kingdom. On top of that, nothing is deadlier than naz, so being able to sneak naz by with invisibility is amazing :P

army stop when invis is cast on it. Unless that has changed now?

When your army moves, invisibility is inactive.  It only works on cities, and stationary armies.  If an enemy army gets close to you, he can see you.  (not sure how close he needs to be, my guys is very close)

I usually end up having to get military science to fight early, so then i stop at military 6, that way magic 6(Army of the dead, steal science) is still attainable at 21 million. if i do have time to farm up, i get magic as high as i want, then military and then mining.

Last era on Valhalla I went to 9 magic first, then got 7 military and mining after that...  I was fairly inactive though so I didn't do too hot.  Best thing I did all era was cast Armageddon lol.