Has anyone ever had any success with "shards" spells?

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by velk:
You think that shards is bad - wait til you try using tartarian titans - range 30 lightning bolt with 6 precision is kind of amusing 8)

You would need to be fighting against an army of 10,000 to have any chance of hitting anything that wasn't standing right next to you.

I'm not sure what you're talking about here. Lightning bolt has a precision modifier of 7, so with a base precision of 6 your overall precision will be 12. Add in an aim to make it 17 and you will only miss at extreme long range. Even 12 is good enough for moderately sized armies.