[Arryn]

Originally posted by Cohen:
Considering Holy Pyre should strike properly (I mean hit the target), and it's area damage to that it could strike eventually your troops fighting the demons, I don't see it too strong if modified in this way.

All area spells automatically hit all troops in the target area. (6.4.2, page 16 of the manual.) Assuming the target area hit is the area you intended to be hit, as the spell may deviate.

The real problem is confusion on the part of players due to this spell being misleadingly named. It isn't Holy, that is, a Divine spell. It's fire-based Evocation. It could just as well have been (and more appropriately) called Demonbane or Flame Wrath. IMO, the word "Holy" should have been reserved exclusively for spells actually in the Divine school. Once you get over the fact that the spell isn't holy, nor was it intended to be, the spell is just fine as is.

It really should be renamed.