Bladewind/Gift of Heaven/Falling Frost questions

[Endoperez]

Blade Wind has been dealing mundane damage for a long time. It's the number of effects that enables it to hurt ethereal units, not the fact that it's a spell.

[Graeme Dice]

It's still a rather ineffective spell unless you are playing an early age game.

[UninspiredName]

I don't know, a spell that mimics 50 archers is fine by me.

[Shovah32]

Make that 50 high damage archers

[Graeme Dice]

Bladewind does not mimic 50 archers, it has far less precision, and can typically only be cast twice per battle for an E2 mage. A single casting has roughly as much effect as the complete ammunition stores of 4 longbow archers.

[Corwin]

Graeme Dice said:
Bladewind does not mimic 50 archers, it has far less precision, and can typically only be cast twice per battle for an E2 mage. A single casting has roughly as much effect as the complete ammunition stores of 4 longbow archers.

Yes, however when you are faced with charging hordes of low/med protection units, bladewinds are much more useful than 4 archers, since the total damage over 15-20 turns does not matter - what matters is to kill as many attacking enemy troops as possible in the first few turns, before they overrun your amry.

[Corwin]

Anyway, it looks like nobody know for sure the answer to the question of if Arrow Fend (air shield) works vs Bladewind or not - all this is just a guestwork on our part. We need somebody to run a real test. Any volonteers?

Also my Mistform question still stands - is manual wrong when it says 25HP, rather than 25% of HPs?