[sergex]

Originally posted by Arralen:
@Imperator Fyron :
Concerning the targeting I must say I wonder if a bug has crept into the range formula - sometimes spells that have multiple effects "spray" all over the battlefield as if fired at max range, while they are in fact aimed at a much nearer squad (judging from the average range at which the effects appear). Found this especially true with spells of 0 or less accuracy, what is a good hint that there's a bug in the calculations. But that's not of great concern - the developers are known for their willingness to support their product. The first patch is due in short time and might already fix this issue. Until then, use mages with prec15 or more, eyes of aiming and spells with high precision (3+)

Speaking of spells - there are spells which give improved accuracy to mages and troops for the length of battle, as well as morale-boosting ones which will make your troops fight much longer, as well as the opposite.

This is really confusing to me about missile attacks and magic attacks. For example, is a Fireball a missle attack that uses the caster's precision stat OR does it use another formula to determine hit/miss? I assume level of the caster matters, like Fire9 mage should hit more with his fireball than a Fire2 mage right? Or does that just let him cast more fireballs in one battle?

The manual and in-game documentation isn't too clear about how to make your mages connect more often with their long-range attacks. I thought precision only matters for archers?

In terms of archery, I find the friendly-fire too much of a drawback that I don't even use any kind of archers or crossbowmen at all. Just hordes of infantry from now on, and I'm doing great with it. I hardly ever lose a battle with just ranks and ranks of infantry with some fast mounted troops and magical creatures that tear into the enemy line before the enemy archers have time to kill too many of my guys. Fast melee units seem to be the key to beating archer armies, and if you don't use any archers yourself, your casualities will be pretty low in general.

Friendly fire usually does more damage than good in my experience, so I don't even waste the resources on building ranged units. I use Abysia because their armies are immune to fire, so they don't get harmed by stray fireballs or poorly placed Clouds of Fire by my own casters

If they patched it so friendly fire isn't as MUCH of a drawback as it is now, then I'd change my strategies around that, but with the current implementation, I find it more effeicient to totally leave out missle troops from my armies.

[ January 12, 2004, 03:45: Message edited by: sergex ]