Blasted fire elemental. So lets make sure I understand this right-- a fire elemental left without leadership will just sit there? Or what?
I'm trying to figure out if I friendly fired my own mage or not. Well, not initially my own mage, charmed him I think. There was a newly summoned fire elemental adjacent to him that did nothing for several rounds, the mage meanwhile did nothing due to being unconcious. Eventually one of Silver Spoon's lightning arrows hit the mage (though given my accuracy she could have been aiming for anything) and killed him.
The Great and Powerful TRIXIE! did successfully charm 1 Demon of Heavenly Fires though. I contemplated setting it to guard commander until I noticed the heat aura.
TGaP Trixie is going to be a fun little thug. She has a rune smasher (which I made like 15 turns ago and have had 0 use for since nothing I use targets MR.), the crown of overmight (Which allows casting of charm), an eye of the void (which, since agarthans only have 1 eye, makes her blind-- but that doesn't matter for charm), and then a lantern shield and a robe of shadows. So she is casting charm 1.5 times a round (because of bless quickness) at +4 penetration. I could possibly boost the magic pen further.... I think I could get +8 by giving another eye (Can I do that to 1-eyed creatures?) and by duel-wielding rune smashers. (or does their penetration bonus not stack for 2 of the same item? I know some things stack, some don't for duplicates.)
I have another SC building at the moment. I'll post screenshots after their first battle.
Oh, and I guess the secret is out now that I hit Tien Chi with this little trap: I at some point finally got around to getting enchantment magic up to 5, giving me a cute little national summon, Avatar of Darkness. It is an immobile (map-wise, in battle the things actually do move some.) commander that causes battles to be in darkness. So I'm basically plopping the things down in all my important labs. To brag: I sent a tiny task force to a bit of Tien Chi's coast that I knew from earlier had a lab. Summoned a darkness dude immediately, he counterattacked immediately with an army that would have wiped out my forces if not for the darkness.
I really wish there were spells that created labs. Heck, a really powerful spell that put a lab in every region in the world would be nice.