Thank you for your tips, Man with No Name. I certainly hope I do my duty as a player
I wasn't intending to complain about anything in the question, I was just wondering if it was usual that to cast a spell like, for example, Leeching Darkness from turn 1 you would have to position mages forward.
sansanjuan, I hadn't thought out the expanding battefield, I guess that means the centre lines could be further apart in some battles, so sometimes my scripts are in range and sometimes not.