Whoah theres a lot of micro management in this game

[Knai]

Originally Posted by shatner

Also, casters won't spend gems casting spells if they are fighting an enemy that is considered too weak. This is to keep giant armies from spending dozens of gems blasting 1PD into smithereens, but sometimes you will have cases where it causes results that are less than satisfactory.

Odd. I've found the opposite, gems will be burnt on stuff too minor to warrant them, and everything that actually does warrant them will see gem use. The AI being what it is, that tends to mean copious gem use even if the mages are outfitted to deal with something much more dangerous than whatever it is they're fighting.