but you have no impact what your mages cast after 5 turns so if the battle Lasts longer than 5 turns one of them almost 100% sure casts it anyway
that's my biggest wish for a new patch / dominions 3
that you can script only your mages which spells to cast either until end of battle or at least for 15 turns.
it would be nice if you could make a spellpool :
for the first 5 turns it works like always you can give direct orders. then you draw the spells you wish your mages use in the spellpool and the spells are randomly choosen out of the spellpool from combatturn 6-end of battle .
cause as norfleet stated in another thread some mages have enourmous advantages since they have not so many quite useless spells.
if your mage has a naturepick e.g. he casts perhaps vine arrow while he could cast other much more useful spells instead .