[Nick_K]

I think I read somewhere in an old dom1 forum that the devs felt that controlling spellcasters directly in battle would make them overpowered. I can certainly see this myself. If you could pick targets such as enemy commanders it'd give you a massive advantage over the ai.

Of course, this would act as an incentive to use battle-mage pretenders, but I doubt that any extra fun from this would justify the extensive re-design to the way the game works and the inevitable balance issues.