[thejeff]

Except when they do search the capital.

More accurately, when all provinces that they think should be searched have been, they stop searching. If you tell them to cast again, they will default to the province they are in.

For reasons I have yet to understand, sometimes capitals (yours or others) show up as "should be searched". That's probably what happened to jutetrea. If you let them search the capital, they'll move on to other provinces.

Sometimes they'll bypass a non-capital province, too. I had thought that if a province was ignored for one path it would be skipped for all, but my latest SP seems to have disproved that.

There is something wrong with the targeting algorithm, but I still can't see the pattern.