[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
The even more vexing thing about shapechanging is that it's a toggle, rather than "change to X".

This means that your pretender can go into a battle in his human form, and start casting his buffs. Midway through, he gets struck by a stray arrow and changes back....but he'll keep plugging away at his script, meaning as he reaches the end, even though he's already in his beefy form, he will then CHANGE BACK and CHARGE THE ENEMY WITH A SPOON.

This goes downhill from here.

Dang! I hadn't seen that one.

What just slew me though was watching the brain dead AI illustrate perfectly why either the casting queue needs improvement, or the AI does.

One artillery pretender, 3 Tuathas, and 1 bard - laying waste to the enemy independent infantry. Something like 30 out of 40 infantry killed, when the first few make it up to where the mages are. No problem - Tuatha have great defense, mirror images intact, fatigue okay.

And the @#$@# pretender casts Immolation, killing about 3 light infantry. And killing the bard, and 2 out of 3 Tuathas. End of battle and retreat. The pretender had _lots_ of other short range offense spells to cast, but went with immolation. Actually - I think he damaged _himself_ with the spell too probably.