I think Radious has rebalanced many of the spells so that some are not OP and others are not useless, but all across the board, magic is still very weak.

I am currently using a mod which adds 50% more magic reserve, magic recharge rate, etc. It works pretty well, but there is yet more that should be going on with magic.

I was thinking we should discuss the pros and cons of magic in Radious mod, and basically aide in deciding what it SHOULD be.

For instance, as a tabletop player, I am well accustomed to seeing half a unit wiped out by a single (lucky) spell. This might upset some people of course, demanding that magic remains a somewhat fringe component of the battle, taking a backseat compared to shooting and melee.

Also remember that magic does not scale with unit size AT ALL. So it is hard to balance it for all unit scales, so lets just take ULTRA scale because thats what 50% or more of players use (and ultra scale has the most underpowered magic by comparison).

For me, this is how the magic lores SHOULD work.

1. Lore of vampires should primarily focus on buffing your men to perhaps 2x as good stats, resurrecting fallen soldiers all day long, and healing all the rest. Some damage is possible, but mostly a defensive, buffing lore which allows crummy skeletons + zombies to tarpit enemies for a long time.

2. Metal is supposed to be anti-armor. Searing doom is supposed to do MORE damage if the target has high armor compared to if the target has low armor. Yes you read that right. Other spells are pretty good as is, by raising ally's armor, reducing enemy armor, etc.

3. Heavens is pretty decent the way it is, except that comet of casandora is supposed to take a long time to arrive (random amount of time) but do MASSIVE damage. The point of this is to force an enemy to move away from a defensive position or suffer massive damage. Other spells are OK, perhaps a tiny bit weak.

4. Light is supposed to be a racist lore. It does more damage to Chaos and Undead than any other factions. This is mostly ignored in game, and I would like to see that flavor represented in a serious way.

5. Orc lores have the feel of the orcs, but perhaps do a little less damage then I think they should. Like foot of Gork often deleted an entire unit in one casting in tabletop.

6. Death magic is probably the best lore in vanilla game. So it doesnt need much here, except prehaps making purple sun A LOT better. Purple sun can kill half of your army in tabletop warhammer, instead of (at least in vanilla) just tickling a small group of guys.

7. Fire is another lore which is done well in warhammer, but again on Ultra I think the spells underperform. especially Fireball... in fact perhaps all of the "simple" magic missile spells should just become SUPER cheap, not changing damage at all. So maybe cut the cost down to like 3 magic, allowing you to cast it many times as you see ift.

So by all means I am not saying 1 wizard should kill your whole army in 10 seconds with a single spell, I am simply saying that having magic be so weak that not only should you never take more than 1 caster, but even 1 caster might be less effective than some other substitute unit (like one more cav unit)... is just not very warhammer-like. Taking 2 casters should be a decent idea, instead of a massive handicap.

anyway I know these concepts are not everybody's cup of tea, but maybe there needs to be a "Stronger magic for Radious" mod out there for people like me who want to have huge battles where magic accounts for a significant amount of the damage (like 20% casualties from magic, i think would be ideal)