There are a few global spells in the game, there's the one that gives all your trained units +1 level and the create dark portal one that constantly spawns demons or whatever. More would be cool though.

I find it interesting that so many users in so many different threads are asking for features from MOM.  It is interesting because I know an editor at GI and he told me that way back when Elemental was in early development, we're talking pre-beta, the Elemental devs told GI that they wanted to make MOM 2 essentially, but they had issues getting the IP for MOM, so they created the Elemental IP.

Now that we are in iteration 3 of Elemental with LH, there are still so many core mechanics from MOM that still don't exist - in particular the over the top powerful magic.  The back story in the Elemental universe tells us that magic is supposed to be the focal point, but I've had more success with brute force super troops than trying to use magic as my main battle tactic.

So yes, I would like to see more Strategic magic overall - particularly huge multi-turn summons.  Also there should be more essence on the maps.

BTW, the original idea for the Sovereigns was that they were supposed to be OP by nature with a player choice to focus on one-man-army or commander/administrator types - kinda like the Warrior/Mage or Commander heroes in Eador.

There are many things about elemental I like better than mom.  Dynamic troop creation, mods ability, skills progression, city levels, and all sorts of other unique things.  There are also mom aspects I don't want anywhere near elemental.  These things could be used to balance some things (like magic) and add interesting choices to character and faction progression.  

As I stated earlier, MOM 2, not MOM.  There are plenty of IPs which alter game mechanics each rev of the game, yet keep the core experience the same.  As a matter of fact, games that don't alter mechanics usually fail.  It is only the games that successfully alter the mechanics that get played for years and years.  I would expect LH to be better than MOM.  At this point I don't think LH is the spiritual successor to anything.  It is definitely its own IP.

However, I would like to see a dev shop make a game that uses MOM's core experience and deliver a well balanced modern game.  (MOM having horrible balance issues was its downfall, but the near infinite paths through the game is what gives it its legs.)

I was really expecting more bite with this post, but perhaps I'm in the minority with wanting these things?

If nothing else I thought there would be more support for the request to make it easier to end unit enchantments.   Is there a way to do this that I"m not aware of?

Absolutely this one.  Got to get this included soon.

Probably. Cos these are MOM like features and MOM fans are in the minority

Seriously, my impression from reading forum threads is more players here are interested in "balance" and the AI challenge more than in the fun factor (except that balance and AI challenge is fun). Hence you see lots of discussions on champion skill trees , which *IS* important but most are ok with the magic side even though it's a bit bland mostly with a couple of fun spells.

The things the OP mentions are definitely fun and adds lots of favour, essentially, the spells asked for, makes it into a real "War on magic", where opponents can counterspell, dispell and other mantipulate other magic, some call this "meta-magic". The problem here is the average Elemental player will say "but the AI can't handle this" or "but it's going to be so unbalanced... cos of ..."

That essentially is the difference in philosophy between MOM and Elemental. In MOM, the main criteria in ending something in was "is it fun? is it cool?", hence you get flying units, invisible units, ability to "Steal" opposing units, craft items, various ways to counter/dispel/block etc spells, 

The AI can't handle all this, 

I actually believe the AI can be written to handle many of these things well.  

I haven't even begun to look into the AI yet, so the below listed xml is 100% psudocode. (AKA DO NOT USE THE CODE BELOW, I MADE UP ALL THE VARIABLES)

If the code for the AI doesn't already let us do something like the following, it absolutely needs to be in game.

<Combo Intervention>

      <NastynessLevel>5</NastynessLevel>

     <WatchForValue1>

         <Enchantment>Flight</Enchantment>

     </WachForValue1>

     <WatchForValue2>

         <Ability>AttackRanged</Ability>

     </WatchForValue2>

      <Action1>RangedAttack</Action1>

       <Action2 ~~~~~7>Various Dispells</Action2~~~~~7>

        <Action8>FlightSpell</Action8>

         <Action9>EscapeScroll</Action9>

</Combo Intervention>

Frogboy Did an amazing job with the AI by the end of galciv2 and all it's expansions.   I really expect we will get the same for this game before it's over.

We do have flying units, and the ability to steal opposing units and various way to counter / dispel/ block spells. It's not hard to add things in the game that you want, like invisible units. If you ignore what the AI can't do and just want it in the game, then that removes a huge requirement of trying to get the game to work with the AI...This is why I made units in FE that summon creatures for free. I tried to make the AI use them, but meh don't know if it worked. But in either case you had mages that summoned a specific elemental and it was a trait that forced you to only choose 1 summon and not multiple summons for that unit.

A lot of my mods were just to see if I could do it in FE and I found that I could do quite a bit with what was there. I just didn't have the 3d modeling skills to make truly amazing works like heavenfall. But for coding it doesn't take much to add spells and the like into the game, or buildings for that matter. Most of the ideas for my mods was in effect a result of discussions from the board of what people wanted to see or have in the game. So I put it in the game, like the snaking and bridge mod.

I would much prefer if people would say exactly the spell and what you want it to do down so it can be made into the game, if it is possible. Or try to add it to the game yourself.

To interrupt the spell of mastery is to kill the person casting the spell. Interrupts on the strategic level will have to be a very high mana cost somwhere along the lines of 200+ mana. Reasons for the global spells with no casting time, it shouldn't take more than a season to cast something, but meh.

It's not hard to add these things in though. The UI to see enchantments is in the govern tab.

I am also struggling to remove enchantments from my units.

I favor the concept of giving strategic spells a casting timer, which allows counter spells and resistance etc.

When you bring up the stats for the unit, the current enchantments, equipments, and traits are all listed.  Just make it so we can right click on those to remove them.

I know modders are very proud of their mods and I respect the amount of effort put into it. But the whole "download a mod and this solves your problem/negates your point" argument is silly when people comment about the game.

The Elemental line of games just isn't very fun, at least if you define Fun the way MOM does it. Mods may or may not address it (I am leaning towards maybe), but we judge games by the base game not the mods. This isn't a knock on modders by the way, just wondering why modders are defending SD. 

Even if you managed to duplicate say MOM spells 100% with your mod that's your success not SD's, it still doesn't negate my point about the direction of Elemental by SD.

EDIT : Compare to say Worlds of Magic, where it is obvious magic is the focus.....