Suicide Casters...

[deccan]

alexti said:
Mistform would help.

Would mistform really help? Wouldn't RoS do magical damage? Even so, given the low hp of Caelian mages, wouldn't the damage of RoS break the mistform?

alexti said:
I wonder if it's the absolute strength of enemy or relative to your armies is taken into account.

Yeah, I wonder that too. I hate it that the system only decides whether to spend gems in battle only on an absolute yes-or-no basis, instead of evaluating on a scripted-spell case-by-case basis, i.e. this spell costs 5 gems to cast, don't cast it because the enemy is too weak, this spell only costs 1 gem, so let's cast it anyway etc.

In a recent game playing AE Ermor, I was badly mauled in some battles because the massed priests of my enemy weren't enough to trigger the gem-use-allowed trigger. If my mages had spent the gems on Mass Flight / Darkness the way they were meant to, I would have won the battle with no losses, but instead lost several hundred undead.