Spell Spamming !!
 

What spell do you most often over use? (Any type of spell, summon, ritual, etc. *Other than the obvious blessing*)

What spell do you end up using the most in any givien game?

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Summon Earthpower. It's always useful.

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Paralyze and soul slay.

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Blink! the best spell ever.

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mmm... you spam Blink?

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Summon Earthpower, Blessing, or Cloud of Death. Probably Blessing gets the plurality.

-Max

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Cloud of Death is very nice for a gem-free spell.

Summon Earthpower... needs to be scripted, AFAICT. Pity. As an easy, gem-free booster that also gives regeneration, this seems much more obvious for an E2 mage than, say, Astral Shield is for an astral mage.

Edit -- Reinvigoration, not regeneration. Need more sleep.

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I always have a script or two of common battle spells for my national mages to spam. But I have to say that Paralyze is probably my most spammed spell of all time. Its relatively easy to get astral mages for any nation and Paralyze is a cheap, easy to cast anti-SC spell.

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Raise skeltons

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red skeltons?

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Hmmm. I'm fairly sure I have seen unscripted mages occasionally cast Summon Earthpower.

-Max

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Drain Life. One of the few spells you can spam for 50 turns without fatigue knocking you out at some point.

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Body Ethereal and luck.

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Fireball, Falling Fire, Fire cloud, Astral Fire, Fire-anything!

Also Lighting-anything ...

I like the USSR-army-like method: two days of heavy artillery bombing followed by a huge infantry swarm covered by an heaviest mass of tanks.

All in subtlety & shrewdness. Yes.

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But can you? You can spam it for 5 turns and then you're at the mercy of the spellcasting AI, which will probably cast Raise Skeletons. Unless you have researched nothing but Alteration.

-Max

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Sure. Put a Standard of the Damned on a non-caster.

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Ah. Well then in that case, you can spam Raise Skeletons ad nauseum too, with Skullface + Amulet of Resilience. In fact you can spam lots of things ad nauseum, from Acid Bolt to Falling Frost. I thought you meant "spam unequipped."

-Max

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Ahh, this brings up a question... Can you equip a commander with lets say Acid Bolt then convert that commander to a unit. Will it still have the equiped item as a unit? and will it still fire Acid Bolts? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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No, it will not, and so it won't be able to.

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Although I keep wondering whether, if you Enslave a Theurg Communicant, he still participates in Communions. Would be a handy thing for Astral Travel/Gateway.

-Max

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Just trying to live up to my icon....

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That's a fascinating and weird idea.

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Theurg Communicant troops charge forward but are effected when a master casts twist fate so I'd say they are fully in the communion.