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Originally Posted by ArkhanTheBlack
What exactly are Hands of Glory? It seems to be some kind of resource like production or so, but I'm not sure if I understood it right.
Combat preparation seems to be a bit easier than in Dom3, therefore you just set where they are located. I've seen back, mid, not sure if I've seen front exlicitly mentioned.
Are there other ways to influence the fights? Something like the spells the mages should use?
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Wikipedia on Hands of Glory
Essentially they are the left hands of hanged murderers, dried and preserved. In CoE3, necromancers burn these hands as an offering to spirits of the Netherworld to gain the services of allies or knowledge (rituals of mastery).
Yes, there are front ranks (e.g. spearmen), so units are placed according to the placement rank, melee units in front, archers in the middle and spellcasters in the back.
As far as mages and spell use, you can select which spells to memorize if you have more spells than memory slots. The mage will then cast random spells from among those memorized, though not totally useless things (Frost against undead which are cold immune, fire against fire elementals or poison resistance against spearman, who have no poison attacks etc.).