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1.1: Boosting Mana Income | [Back to the WarGuide]
The one way to boost your mana production early in the game is to send out squads of builders over a map with one objective: building Lodestones. Put a few in a squad and SHIFT-assign them to start building over the map. Once you get some units you can defend them with, have a few of them guard the squads. Pretty soon, if there a enough mana sites on the map, your mana collection should fit your needs. Make sure you start getting lots of mana early in the game. At the beginning of the game you may not need a whole lot of mana, but as you soon start getting more things that build, your mana resources go down, way down. The games that I find that are most interesting, is when both sides know that who controls the mana controls the map, and the whole war is a war over mana. These are usually very long games, and players' bases get very large and usually move around the map as parts of their base gets destroyed.