Mage (Fire)

Mage
Overview
Race	High Elves
Category	Hero
Unit size	1
Recruitment
Tier unit Cost (MP): 1000 (300) Turns: 1 Upkeep: 250 Weight: Medium
Statistics
Health: 3412 (3412 per model) Leadership: 60 Speed: Melee Attack: 36 Melee Defence: 28 Charge Bonus: 15
Melee Weapons
Weapon Strength: 285 Base Damage: 200 Armour-Piercing Damage: 85 Melee Interval: 4 s Melee Reach: 3
Protection
Armor: 15 (11.25% reduction)
Attributes
Encourage: This unit provides a leadership bonus to nearby allies. Units within range of both the Lord's aura and an encouraging unit will receive the larger of the two bonuses. Hide (forest): This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close. Martial Prowess Wounds Missile Resistance: 15%. Damage of missile attacks is reduced by this amount.

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Elven pyromancers command an impressive array of violently destructive spells, making them well placed in the Asur battle ranks.

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Mage (Fire) is a High Elves Hero unit introduced in Total War: Warhammer II with The Total Waaagh! Update.

Recruitment

• Unlocked with: Archive, Library of Hoeth or Purified Convent of Sorcery

Description

In Ulthuan, those who devote their lives to magic are treated with the highest respect and honour. Though each kingdom has its own magical traditions and methods of scholarship, Saphery is the realm most famed for its mages, and it is at the White Tower of Hoeth that Ulthuan's seat of magical learning can be found. There, the greatest collection of Mages, Loremasters and scholars in the world endeavour to perfect their mastery of the sorcerous arts. It is a place of wonders unbounded, where mages strive to harness every aspect of the Winds of Magic.

Attributes

• Wizard
• ▲ Spellcaster: This unit can cast spells.

Spells

• Lore of Fire

Campaign Abilities

Embed Hero

• Scouting

Constant Local Effect

• Cleanse Corruption

Target

• Settlement
• Steal Technology

• Hero
• Wound

• Army
• Block Army

Character Abilities

• Kindleflame
• Martial Prowess
• Evasion (campaign only)
• Arcane Conduit (campaign only)
• Starwood Staff (multiplayer only)
• Book of Hoeth (multiplayer only)

Items (Multiplayer)

• Starwood Staff
• Book of Hoeth

Mounts

• Elven Steed (TWWH2 only)
• Barded Ithilmar Steed
• Ithilmar Chariot
• Sun Dragon

Talent Tree

• Skill Tree on TotalWarhammerPlanner

Strategy

Different from all of the other mage casters of the High Elves, the Mage of Fire can mount a Sun Dragon, making them a much more powerful melee combatant. It is meant to reflect the Dragon Mages of Caledor. This is similar to the special options of the Amber Wizard for The Empire.

The High Elves bring many forms of fire damage which the Fire Mage can support with their Kindleflame passive (the enemy army gets 20% weakness to fire for 15 seconds after any spell cast by the Fire Mage). Cast a low-cost spell like Cascading Fire Cloak and then use powerful attacks from other fire-based units such as: Flamespyre Phoenixes (regular attacks and their active ability), Lords with the Incendiary trait or items giving flaming attacks, Sun Dragons (attacks and breath weapon), Archers RoR unit (Talons of Tor Caleda), any unit with the Banner of Eternal Flame, Arcane Phoenixes (regular attacks and active ability). All of these damages can be increased 20% with the Fire Mage's passive.

A good double-wizard High Elf army is a Fire Mage under a Life, Light, or High Archmage. This allows both mages to mount dragons, with the Fire Mage as the damage dealer and the Archmage bringing utility. If the Archmage takes the powerful Incendiary trait, then the Fire Mage's Kindleflame passive will weaken enemies to the Lord's flaming attacks. Using the Fire Mage to cast a minor spell before using the dragon's breath attack will also proc Kindleflame for a few seconds and strengthen the damage of the breath attack.