Orc Horde · Caster

Sand Mage

Snaring sands root foes fast and slow whole advances.

Controller · cripples the foe

Stats

Health: 45
Damage: 12per hit
Damage per second: 8
Attacks every: 1.5s
Range: 150
Move speed: 52
Sight: 240how far it spots a foe
Population: 2of the army cap
Raise: 2,450gold, in battle
Armory: 900gold, to unlock

These are the Sand Mage's own figures, the ones the Armory prints. In battle the Orc Horde's trait is added on top: +15% damage · +6% speed. Range, reach and speed are in the battlefield's own units.

Special powers

Slow. Cuts its target to 60% of its speed for 2 seconds.
Root. Pins its target where it stands for 1.4 seconds.

Strong and weak

Strong: Cavalry, chasers.

Weak: Ranged poke.

As a caster troop, it deals extra damage to Elite (×1.2), Construct (×1.25) and Beast (×1.2) troops.

Shock (×1.2) troops deal extra damage to it.

Raising it

The Sand Mage comes out of its own spawner, which your Builder raises for 2,450 gold in the middle of a battle. Once it stands it musters a Sand Mage every 1 minute 27 seconds by itself, and levelling it shortens that — to 57.3 seconds at level 2 and 36.6 seconds at level 3.

Upgrades cost 1,750 gold to level 2 and 8,000 gold to level 3. Every level also makes the troops it musters hit harder and last longer.

Before it can be raised at all it has to be unlocked in the Armory, for 900 gold — gold carried between battles, earned by fighting them.

Other Caster troops

Every other caster troop in the game, cheapest to raise first. See all Caster troops.

Troop	Kingdom	Raise	Health	Damage	Range	Speed
Satyr Piper	Beasts	1,600	66	12	160	92
Pyromancer	Dynasty	1,700	35	15	150	52
Druid	Elves	1,900	54	8	150	54
Frost Mage	Dwarves	1,950	35	9	150	52
Geomancer	Dwarves	2,050	42	18	150	50
Hexer	Orcs	2,100	44	12	150	50
Warlock	Undead	2,300	47	11	150	50
Enchanter	Elves	2,350	48	8	150	54
Plaguebringer	Orcs	2,350	47	10	150	50
Banshee	Undead	2,500	81	18	185	96
Sparkwright	Overwound	2,500	51	17	160	62
Binding Warlock	Damned	2,550	62	15	155	54
Stormcaller	Humans	2,550	45	18	165	52
Tempest	Elves	2,600	44	17	168	52
Inquisitor	Humans	2,650	93	21	180	54
Brimstone Caller	Damned	2,750	57	20	170	58
Fieldwright	Fallen	2,850	60	17	160	58
Governor	Overwound	2,850	56	14	150	58
Onmyōji	Dynasty	2,850	84	19	190	52
Wispcaller	Elves	3,000	81	15	170	58
Graveweaver	Undead	3,050	90	16	175	48
Soul Broker	Damned	3,050	66	17	150	56
Necromancer	Undead	3,250	63	10	135	54
Voidcaller	Undead	3,400	65	10	135	52
Starcaller	Fallen	3,550	65	22	175	54
Plague Doctor	Overwound	4,100	129	24	150	74

More Orc Horde troops

The Orc Horde page has all 26 of them side by side, with the kingdom's powers.