Spell Targeting

[danm]

I just wish my mages would loose their obsession with Legions of Steel...

god i hate that spell. I'm sure some nations find it quite handy, but for Agartha, I would MUCH rather kill a bunch of annoying little chaff units with a bladewind or two than add a few lousy points of protection to my already plenty durable Ancients.

Nothing rages me in this game like watching my mage knock himself out casting Legions of Steel over and over while a horde of barbarians charges into melee range unscathed. (yeah, i can usually keep them off the LoS until round 6, which helps the battle situation, but not my rage, because they invariably insist on wasting rounds 6-8 making darn sure EVERY unit on the screen is good and LoS'd)

At this point I have an utterly irrational loathing of that spell, to the point where I have considered modding it out of existance for my SP games. grr! rargh!!! hiss.

I really really want a "the following spells are an abomination before god, and shall not be cast by any mage in his service" list where people could "blacklist" spells that they disliked for either thematic or strategic reasons, without blocking their availability to other nations/players.

Sorry about the somewhat off topic rant here, but it seemed kinda-sorta related, and, well, I also wanted to vent at Mr Smarty Wizard a bit...

[KissBlade]

danm said:
I just wish my mages would loose their obsession with Legions of Steel...

god i hate that spell. I'm sure some nations find it quite handy, but for Agartha, I would MUCH rather kill a bunch of annoying little chaff units with a bladewind or two than add a few lousy points of protection to my already plenty durable Ancients.

Nothing rages me in this game like watching my mage knock himself out casting Legions of Steel over and over while a horde of barbarians charges into melee range unscathed. (yeah, i can usually keep them off the LoS until round 6, which helps the battle situation, but not my rage, because they invariably insist on wasting rounds 6-8 making darn sure EVERY unit on the screen is good and LoS'd)

At this point I have an utterly irrational loathing of that spell, to the point where I have considered modding it out of existance for my SP games. grr! rargh!!! hiss.

I really really want a "the following spells are an abomination before god, and shall not be cast by any mage in his service" list where people could "blacklist" spells that they disliked for either thematic or strategic reasons, without blocking their availability to other nations/players.

Sorry about the somewhat off topic rant here, but it seemed kinda-sorta related, and, well, I also wanted to vent at Mr Smarty Wizard a bit...

If you scripted Blade Wind, they should cast it unless you're out of range.

[Aleph]

His scripting isn't the problem, it is the actions of his mages post scripting.

danm said:
(yeah, i can usually keep them off the LoS until round 6, which helps the battle situation, but not my rage, because they invariably insist on wasting rounds 6-8 making darn sure EVERY unit on the screen is good and LoS'd)

Whereas mine was just ignored.

Maybe instead of blacklisting spells, we just need some caster attitude adjusters. Like "1. Do what I frikken told you, even if it seems insane to you. 2. Cast offensive spells. 3. Cast defensive spells. 4. Summon minions 5. Cast whatever seems best to you."

[Theonlystd]

They do cast the LoS a crapload

And well personally alot of mages i dont care as much about there well being as killing the other guys. But they insist on self buffing themselfs to hell.


Maybe we need an option to give the mages general guidelines after the script. Anti Sc cast single powerfull spells,Anti Chaff bladewinds and such ,Self Buff,Army Buff ect.

[danm]

Any of those suggestions would help. heck, even if they made LoS cover the whole field (so it would only get cast once) or cost less fatigue (so my mages could do something afterwards), i could probably deal with it.

Going crazy with the self-buffing I can at least rationalize from a roleplaying perspective (screw those guys... I'm going etherial!)

ohohoh, while i've got the thread hijacked, would't it be cool to have seperate "army setups" for offense and defence? I use a totally different squad config when I know I'm going to be attacked than when I'm attacking, but I find it really obnoxios to switch back and forth all the time. Theres nothing like seeing your poor lil equipped-up mages standing all by their lonesome 10 squares in FRONT of your huge swarm of expendable Provice Defence...

('cept maybe last night where I managed to assign all the troops to the wrong leader, and sent my fancy-pants arty mage out to play SC all by his lonesome... d'oh!)

[Aleph]

Should in fact probably be different set ups for attack, defense, siege attack, siege defense, assassination attack, and assassination defense. But I doubt there will be any of those.