Tactics for playing as the Sylvan faction.

Well, magic simply doesn't fit into this scheme, but why wouldn't empathy help? Look, we cast a powerful general speed boost on the warriors – that's one. We'll also take care of artifacts for the Battle Mage in advance. The Lion set is ideal (we'll then have two empathy boosts). The ballista will push the hero back one turn (although before that, it will manage to fire three or four times, the last one with the Ring of the Magi). The Battle Mage will work three times easily under these conditions. That's +30-60% initiative (without the Lion set and with it). If the ballista also attacks shortly after the hero's turn, and not when he was almost ready to move, then we don't lose much. But even if we do lose something, it doesn't seem so bad. If I'm wrong about anything, let me know.

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Ah, forget about the general speed boost, since we have Chaos :( But still, I think three Battle Mage attacks will work without any problems.

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Although we could take "Magic of Speed" instead...