2nd Forum Only Diplomacy

[unclemike]

4th Warlock            A foreign wizard slew the 4th Warlock Power-4 Zor Mindshifter with dark
                           magic!

    4th Warlock            A foreign wizard slew the 4th Warlock Power-4 Mennemik with dark magic!

    4th Warlock            A foreign wizard slew the 4th Warlock Power-6 Havix Moondust with dark
                           magic!

    2nd Warlock            A foreign wizard summoned an awesome magic, sending green waves of death
                           into the ranks of the 2nd Warlock, wiping out 4 brigades!

    2nd Warlock            A foreign wizard summoned an awesome magic, sending green waves of death
                           into the ranks of the 2nd Warlock, wiping out 4 brigades!

    2nd Warlock            A foreign wizard summoned an awesome magic, sending green waves of death
                           into the ranks of the 2nd Warlock, wiping out 4 brigades!

Please explain this to me. Both Kill Wizard and Summon Death say that you have to have at least one brigade in the casting group. But in my recon from last turn only one group (3 wizards) had brigades. What happened?

Instant Summon Phantoms spell. It's a group spell but it occurs early in the turn before battle. You can do a bunch of things with a patrol with wizards that can cast phantoms. Actually, Jumpingfist mentioned it on the forum back when 3rd Cycle started and I've learned from him to use wizard-patrols to destroy pc's. A wizard-patrol on water with an eliteship can avoid enemy sea patrols without a problem and can destroy pc's at ease.

Also, the phantom brigades are not fixed to your group. To pursue the WA's groups, I had to transfer a phantom brigade from one of my patrols into another since my 1LI group only had a single wizard (who defended himself with a protect leaders/wizard spell). That's another area that I thought the WA would defend himself better by casting a bunch of Protect Leaders and Wizard spells but I guess he cast something else instead.