Wind ride & Hellbind heart

[HJ]

I have a mage scripted to cast Wind ride on an enemy capitol. I have two Skrattis, one blood 2 and one blood 3, each with 3 blood slaves on patrol in the same province, and one has a Spell focus on him. Whatever I do, I cannot get them to cast Hellbind heart on the commander that arrives. I've tried this at least 20 times now, with various combinations such as attack/attack/HH, attack/HH/HH, attack/attack/hold/HH, etc., but they just don't want to cast the damn spell and cast idiocies such as body ethereal, BoW and similar instead. Not even once have they cast HH in all those trials, even though they were almost next to the enemy commander. So, what gives?

How I sometimes wish that we have direct control over battles... Or at the very least that the AI doesn't abandon script if we haven't.

On a related note, do blood slaves have to be in an immediate vicinity of the caster for him to be able to cast combat blood magic, or can they be anywhere in the battlefield for him to use them? That's why I had casters on hold in some combinations, so that they can catch up with the Skrattis.

Thanks for the info that will end this frustration.

Cheers,

[ June 22, 2004, 03:33: Message edited by: HJ ]