More spell questions...

[deccan]

I have even more spell questions...

1) What does "Wind of Death" do?
2) I suppose that "Rain of Stones" is a "do damage to everything on the battlefield once" spell rather than a "do damage to everything for the duration of the battle" spell?
3) If my caster is in a domed province and casts "Wind Ride" out from that province, will the targeted commander enter that province correctly?
4) Does anything protect against acid type spells, e.g. Acid Storm?

[Nagot Gick Fel]

deccan said:
1) What does "Wind of Death" do?

Everyone on the battlefield must pass an "easy" MR check (ie, with a +4 bonus) or start to decay.

2) I suppose that "Rain of Stones" is a "do damage to everything on the battlefield once" spell rather than a "do damage to everything for the duration of the battle" spell?

Correct.

3) If my caster is in a domed province and casts "Wind Ride" out from that province, will the targeted commander enter that province correctly?

Correct. Domes only stops rituals targeted AT the domed province. Here your Wind Ride targets another province, the fact that the windrode leader ends his journey under your dome has nothing to do with the targeting itself.

4) Does anything protect against acid type spells, e.g. Acid Storm?

Acid Resistance protects vs Acid - the only problem is no Dom 2 unit comes with Acid Resistance.

[Endoperez]

Armor does protect versus acid, to an extent... Unfortunately, acid eats your armor away!

[deccan]

One more spell question: how bad is the downside to Stygian Paths? Is there an actual combat or does the mage / troops just get damage or something?

[Graeme Dice]

They get damaged. I'm not sure how much, but it was enough to kill a pretender when it used to be all applied to the mage leading the troops.

[deccan]

Used to be? So now it's applied to all troops equally?

[Graeme Dice]

I don't know how it's applied, just that it is. I also don't know what kind of damage it is.

[alexti]

I think it's borked. It will often say that {some insane number} of units has perished. Commander (even sneaky seems to usually die in those cases). However, sneaky units doesn't seem to suffer much.

[deccan]

Wow, looks like a spell to stay away from. I'll try to run some tests in SP.

[Kristoffer O]

Stygian Paths was bugged earlier. It hopefully works better now.

There is no battle. Some units take dmg and others are targeted by a MR attempt on their lives IIRC. Undead are not immune IIRC. The lord of the underworld takes back what is rightfully his.