Dissapointed

[Coffeedragon]

Originally posted by PvK:

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Originally posted by Coffeedragon:
... Disagree. Heavy losses due to friendly fire are rare in my games, and in the few cases when they do happen, they are plausible.

Please send me your Version of the EXE, then! At first I thought to offer you money for it, but then I thought it would be more persuasive to threaten you with casting a special Version of Vengeance of the Dead, which summons the ghosts of everyone killed by friendly fire - thousands of them, including many great heroes.

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Lol. I know it does happen. I once lost 2 out of 3 Wyverns (my strongest units at that point) to my own Longbows. However, it was my fault!

If you pay very close attention to the battle setup (as you should), you can mimimize ff losses. I like that the game forces you to do that.

[Coffeedragon]

Originally posted by Aikamun:
I will now disperse all casters to avoid killing other casters.

Dispersing Leaders is good policy, and should be (=>realism; area effect spells).

[Taqwus]

Heh. The most eye-rolling friendly fire I've had was once in Dom I where a "friendly" air mage of mine, which had in his script "Thunder Ward / Wrathful Skies", forgot the first part. !
In Dom II, I once sent a druid to his death single-handedly attacking an enemy stronghold as punishment for casting protection on one of my Abysian warlocks and thus killing him.

[Coffeedragon]

Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
There is no resting. Only unconscious units regain fatigue.

Then resting should be added to the game.

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On this I agree. A nap is cheaper than a Gem.

[IKerensky]

BTW forgetting his spelllist is a far too common habit of my abyssia mage.. wich is quite a problem as my army is my mages.... ( 6 of them, with a W9/E4/A4/F1 pretender if you see what I mean )

As my Prophet start his list by a Divine Blessing ( and BTW always cast Last after even the puniest mage.. strange for my better wizard ... ) that quicken everyone he immediatly alter his listing by casting another divine spell then every mages cast at random from their book....

Seems to be entirely related to the quicken effect and the fact that yo ucan choose only 1 spell by turn and not 2...

Hopefully I can clena the problem by only having evoc and thauma researched... But you understand why I would love to be able to restrain the book of my mages. By round 3 I am out of list... but usually Indies are on the run already...

[Master Shake]

I think the AI command of spell casting works very well. Of course there are battles where I scream at a mage for casting an inapprorpiate spell, but in fact minimizing these can be mastered by unit setup and spell scripting.

My first experiences with spell casting were like those of the original poster watching mages cast a whole series of self-buffs. However, this is easy to avoid if one picks the top spells to cast and scripts them.

Say you have a level 4 fire mage: Flame arrows, phoenix power, falling fires, falling fires, falling fires. The mage will be unconscious before getting through this list, and the battle likely over before he can cast many fire shields.

Also, I treat my mages and gems like my son with cookies - if I want him to eat one cookie, I only give him one.

That said, two options would be really nice:

1. Some sort of option at the end of the 5 spell scripting that ordered continued spell casting without the use of gems.

2. (more complicated and less important) A mater list of spells you don't want any of your mages every casting (e.g., I hate Beserk - it always seems to land of other mages who charge and fight to the death).

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by diamondspider:
I love the idea of a "don't cast" list.

I definitely agree ! This would be so helpful!

Right now I don't give any of my death mages the death gems because I fear they may cast that Summon Lammashatas spell.