So far we know that wizards can summon bridges.

I'm thinking it could be pretty cool if a wizard could summon a temporary unit (demon, elemental, golem etc) that was incredibly powerfull but wouldnt last very long.

Maybe something like a significant mana cost, plus a huge cooldown timer.

I like this.

Mike

Or they could summon a quicksandfiild, where every unit will be slowed down and loses health....

No I think the Monster Idea is better.

The more mages you have the faster It summons and the more mana It costs.

à la Sc1

Could be cool!

Yeah, I could see them incorporating their engineer assist mechanics into the Wizardry/magic system in some interesting ways. This could have some advantages over the problematic engineer assist in SupCom1/FA because Wizards would (presumably) be expensive and not really competitive with the factories/barracks for unit production.. but it'd still be fun if there was some sort of synergy that came from having lots of wizards (along with the risk, presumably, of fielding a bunch of weak and unarmored units that can't stand up to knights or wolves or bear cavalry).

Warrior Kings: Battles a game with ideas THIS AWESOME, but implemented very poorly had an interesting technique. If you went Pagan tech (I think you could have been pagan/renaisance) you could get the archdruid, who could turn on map resources into elementals. The theory was that you have to choose between mining that gold/stone/wood to get your elite units, or transforming it permenantly into a massive/largish/smallish Gold/Stone/Wood Titan/Construct/Treeman OF DEATH/DEATH/cannon-fodder. In reality what happened was that you mined your gold and sent the druid to the enemies' resources after distracting him with fire/capatulasauri/behemoths/undead/mutations or my perosnal favourate succubi.

If they made KnC into "Warrior Kings but not hideously broken/buggy" I would not mind one bit.

Actually, if you killed, say a gold golem, it dissolved into gold piles, it wasn't permanent.

If they can summon bridges, why not walls. big ones too. not that unit specific garbage. I like the idea of using landscape to achieve the advantage, like that quicksand spell idea... would the air version be like a whirlwind?