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In a plain vanilla SoA, the mages lack tactics and propper spellcasting abilities.. even the one mage that should be freaking though is a wuss that can be obliterated by a single person (class does not matter).

Without tactics, mages/liches/endbosses are plain cheesyniss.

With tactics, they got some rather goofy tactics to (even cheating tactics if you ask me) but now they are worth it.. they become notorious for there abilities, this was not the thing in plain SoA.

But even with Tactics a non-magic party can clean house with a bunch of liches (its gonna be hard, ofcorse), everything is possible, plain SoA its even easier.