Re: Spells not working.. :(
 

I have cast ritual of rebirth twice now in a MP game -- but to no avail. I cast it twice because I thought perhaps I forgot to cast it the first time, since nothing happened, but now I have wasted the gems 2x in a row. I get no result from Ritual of Rebirth. (And yes, the commander was a non-undead human in the Hall of fame, and no he was not kicked out of the hall of fame during the interim. He's still there, still dead.)

Re: Spells not working.. :(
 

I have definitely seen Phantasmal Attack and Send [Lesser] Horror work - i.e. they have produced a battle. This was with the 2.08 patch.

It's possible that you need a spy or Astral Window to see the results of Send Horror, like the Flames from Afar spell. I'm pretty sure I've seen battles from the Phantasmal Attack spell where I've had neither a spy nor a scrying spell, but did have an adjacent province, which might conceivably have an effect.

Re: Spells not working.. :(
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Those were bugs in the initial unpatched Version, and were fixed in the first patch, so it's not surprising that they are working for you now.