Arcane Bolt
 

Arcane Bolt?

There should be some kind of way to resist it. It knocks out magic units quite early in the game.

Re: Arcane Bolt
 

Congrats!

Re: Arcane Bolt
 

Its one of my favorite spells. But I think thugs, SC's etc are too hard to kill.

Reasonable spells for battle mages encourages chaff units (as screens). I think we need a lot more of that, not less.

Re: Arcane Bolt
 

I've had bad luck actually hitting much with Arcane Bolt. Even with good base precision + windguide (12 base + windguide = 20 iirc) it misses more often than it hits.

Re: Arcane Bolt
 

Shields sorta neuter arcane bolt, don't they?

Re: Arcane Bolt
 

Yep. Air shield helps too. AFAIW a thug with shield of valor is basically immune to any bolt spells.

Re: Arcane Bolt
 

Tell that to my dead Eagle Kings.

Re: Arcane Bolt
 

Air shield doesn't help, but shields with high parry should make it very ineffectual.

Re: Arcane Bolt
 

Thanks, QM. I was wondering about that.

Re: Arcane Bolt
 

Except that AN missiles/bolts should go through shields. But a brief discussion with qm on IRC revealed that it's probably not the case even though it should be.