Novices

A novice is an untrained person. Each novice can be trained as a recruit. This is your primary source of reinforcements during a game. Some spells also instantly create novices.

Novice Rules

Properties of Novices

Novice Production

Novices and Structures

Spells that Create and Eliminate Novices

What spells create novices?

What spells eliminate novices?

What spells otherwise affect novices?

Novice Rules

Properties of Novices.

• Every novice has a nation, but no stats or abilities.
• Novices don’t appear on the board. They are visible only when you peek into their structure.
• Novices don't move. They don't prevent enemy groups from entering their structure.
• Novices don't fight. They have no effect in combat.
• A novice is not a spell target. It cannot be targeted by any spells.

Novice Production.

• Owned structures produce new novices at regular intervals.
• All novices produced by structures will be of the nation affiliated with the structure owner's house. (If you capture a structure from your opponent, it will produce your novices as long as you own it.)

Novices and Structures.

• Each novice-producing structure can hold a maximum of 8 novices.
• If a structure is full, it won’t produce any more novices.
• Whenever a structure is captured, all novices in the structure are eliminated. Hint: Use them or lose them!

Spells that Create and Eliminate Novices

What spells create novices?

• Allies (2 Elves), Army of Light (2 Visions), Spawn of Toganni (2 Gargoyles): These spells create 2 novices of the specified nation in the target structure.
• Fertility: This spells speeds up its target structure's novice production rate to 1 novice every turn.
• Chalice of Hope: This spell speeds up all owned structures' novice production rate to 1 novice every turn.

What spells eliminate novices?

• Insurrection: This spell eliminates all novices in its target structure immediately.
• Census: This spell eliminates all novices in all structures when it expires.
• Pestilence: This spell eliminates all novices in all structures immediately.

What spells otherwise affect novices?

• Djibari's Legacy: This spell causes all subsequently produced or created novices to be Imps, instead of their normal nations.
• Kumatru Academy: This spell causes its structure to start producing super-archer recruits instead of regular novices.
• Runts: This spell causes its structure to start producing two weak swordsmen recruits instead of regular novices.
• Usam University: This spell pays a mana bonus for each novice in its structure.

v2.10.00 Last updated 2005/08/05