Wind ride & Hellbind heart

[HJ]

They have all the slaves in their gembox, and the only thing that's consuming them is their Breath of Winter...

Originally posted by Norfleet:
The problem is that the mages are being too smart for their own good: They're not casting because Hellbind Heart requires gems to cast....and a lone enemy commander is, apparently, unworthy of having gems wasted on him. So your mages refuse to cast the spell.

So, in order for it to ever work, I would have to have pure blood mages? I mean, all battle blood magic requires "gems", and if they know any other path they'll always have something else to cast.

As I said, if we cannot have full control over battles, at least the AI shouldn't pretend to be smart and abandon scripts when they are doable.

[Duncanish]

I think they'd still abandon the script if they think it's too excessive. They'd probably end up casting Bleed or Agony or something stupid like that...

[NTJedi]

This topic sounds like another reason for gamers to have a way of disabling spells for commanders. Hopefully we'll see this added into dominions_3.

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by HJ:
They have all the slaves in their gembox, and the only thing that's consuming them is their Breath of Winter...

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
The problem is that the mages are being too smart for their own good: They're not casting because Hellbind Heart requires gems to cast....and a lone enemy commander is, apparently, unworthy of having gems wasted on him. So your mages refuse to cast the spell.

So, in order for it to ever work, I would have to have pure blood mages? I mean, all battle blood magic requires "gems", and if they know any other path they'll always have something else to cast.

As I said, if we cannot have full control over battles, at least the AI shouldn't pretend to be smart and abandon scripts when they are doable.

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People used to complain when AI didn't abandon scripts and wasted gems in underwhelming forces. Before the script override you could teleport in a single commander before you walked in a separeate army, thus depleting all the gems of the spellcasters before the main force arrive. This was a complaint from dom 1 that was remedied for dom 2.

[Teraswaerto]

A "spell casting AI override on/off" switch in the orders menu would be nice, though I have no idea how much work something like that would entail.

[Gandalf Parker]

My favorite tactic (WindRide and HellBind Heart). Although I havent tried it since the patch.

I tend to use it with Pangaea. So is this where giants might consider it more effective to just smash, and Pans might consider it better to cast?

Maybe if the giants were given restricting items. A weapon which does 2 damage. Or one that does sleep.

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
My favorite tactic (WindRide and HellBind Heart). Although I havent tried it since the patch.

I tend to use it with Pangaea.

With Pangaea you can still use Charm, since it doesn't cost gems.