Re: CB 5.2 released
 

Aim provides a boost of 5 precision. The 100 precision on the spell represents the accuracy with which the aim spell will hit the target grid square that the mage that casts it wants it to hit. With the old precision on aim, it could miss, which made it pretty useless compared to eagle eyes.

It will curse about a dozen troops, which is really weak for the original cost.

They are very situational, and both use gems that would be much better spent on other things given the original cast. Have you ever seen a game won or lost because of either spell?

Balance purposes. The ice devils were taken down to -50% fire resistance.

Re: CB 5.2 released
 

The ice devil still has it, or at least they do in whatver version of CB we're using in CoW

Re: CB 5.2 released
 

Trust me, it's still plenty difficult to get it cast on the right thing. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

This was a bit overkill boosting, next version it will be somewhere between base and this.
Not sure what you mean, I can't mod spell range if I wanted to.
I have yet to see either cast apart from by the AI, so we'll see.
I belive many of the ivy king stats were already better than vine ogres.
Possibly since IIRC his hellsword was removed at some stage of the lifedrain balancing.
I'll look into it.

Re: CB 5.2 released
 

Graeme Dice...
I don't follow on the AIM spell... just from the readme document it looks like the precision bonus went from +5 to +100.
If it does a fixed amount between 10-14 units then it should still be 2 astral since a curse is forever. Also I believe the spell causes increased bad luck as well.
However, if the spell does a percentage based on the number of units in the province the cost should be closer to 4 or 5.

I've had or seen many many commander-types, even strong ones, vanish because of the Lure of the Deep spell. For many maps this spell is quite a deal for 40gems.

I hope you're right... there was one ice devil where part of his character was being immune to fire. Sad if that was taken away.


Anyone have an answer for question#5 ?

Re: CB 5.2 released
 

You can't change the bonus precision that aim provides. WHat you can change is the precision that the mage that casts aim uses to determine where the aim spell lands.

A curse is also mostly irrelevant unless it's on one of your SCs.

It only targets a single province, so it's still usually not worthwhile to spend any gems on it.

Have you ever lost a game because somebody cast it? It's got an actual cost of several hundred water gems if you want it to last more than a couple of turns.

Re: CB 5.2 released
 

Just a note, baleful star also causes 30 unrest which is why in this version it is overpowered.

Re: CB 5.2 released
 

do they stack? if so just drop 4 stars on each of the enemys production centres (or his capitol if he relys on capitol only). this would actually make domes worthwhile (maybe)

Re: CB 5.2 released
 

sounds fine I guess... is there any difference between eagle eye and aim ?? Perhaps a future version can make some type of difference between the two. Just a suggestion.

Yes consider the unrest, drop in luck and cursing of units this seemed like quite a deal. Excellent to hear the next version will have an adjustment. Do you know if the cursing of units does a percentage or a fixed amount??

my mistake here... I thought 10ft meant feet as in distance... now I see it means fatique.

Yes... but according to the last readme file the stats of the vine ogres for protection and defense now match the stats of the ivy king. Previously the ivy king was higher... why was this set as equal?
Perhaps +1 and -1 on each side to show a difference.

Well just to return this one specific ice devil his character... shouldn't his fire immunity be returned? Otherwise it conflicts with the information about him.

Thanks for checking into this... I did many tests with these creatures but found them not useful because they would usually flee.

Re: CB 5.2 released
 

Eagle Eye being caster-only isn't sufficient of a difference? It means the difference between a mage trying to cast aim on a slinger (and missing), and having the spell cast on himself.

Side note : IMO it'd be a great idea to make flight have a precision 100 as well. Nothing like having a lone unit with precision 20 casting flight and missing ... his size 6 self.

CB 5.4
 

Just giving this thread a bump, see the new version.