Newbie questions...

[deccan]

Okay, after playing the game for a while, here are some newbie questions:

1) How does one defend against "Seeking Arrow"? I see that "Air Shield" works because I once got a message saying that a general's air shield repelled a seeking arrow, but what else? Does high protection help? How about lucky? Sometimes, my moving armies get hit by seeking arrows. Does that mean the enemy targeted the province the army was in or where they were going to be?

And oh, I know about domes and such protecting provinces. What I really want is to help my moving generals as such from being killed by these things all the time.

2) How does lucky work anyway? 50% of attacks miss? That's really powerful isn't it?

3) How do bless effects work? Sacred troops who are blessed gain bonuses depending on your pretender's current magic paths? So, in theory, you could empower your pretender to be good in all magic paths, and your sacred troops could cumulatively gain all of the bless effects? Does it depend on dominion in any way? Does that work the same way with that item that makes units permanently blessed?

4) How do I find enemy spies? I've heard that having units patrol provinces work? But what are the factors involved? Having the commander have a lot of units under his command, having a large patrol bonus or what?

5) If I have growth scale of 0, does that mean that my population is static, so that if I ever want my population to grow, I must take a positive growth scale? If so, then with a growth scale of 0, disasters cause permanent population loss to provinces!

6) What combat spells are good? So far I see that my mages mostly either miss, do piddly damage or damage insignificant targets. I know that combat support spells are good, but I read that people can build mage heavy armies and do most of their combat damage through spells instead of troops, so I'd like to know how that's done.

Okay, more questions as I think of them.