Wind ride

Manuk · #1 May 22nd, 2007, 06:08 PM

tuidjy, did you cast this in dom3 succesfully?
i did cast it several turns with the following message.
(name of the mage) casted wind ride on (province name).
(that's the message more or less)
yet, no one was brought to the caster's province.

Tuidjy · #2 May 22nd, 2007, 07:09 PM

I have cast Wind Ride four times that I can remember in Dominions III.
Twice it worked as expected - the enemy came and got charmed. Once
it failed, and I learned on the next turn that the enemy commander was
a spectral mage. Once it failed and I was not sure why. I did not get
a message, and I decided that there must have been a Van-something in
the province.

lch · #3 May 22nd, 2007, 07:19 PM

Wind Ride has been my most favorite spell in Dom2. I am not sure if I have tried it in Dom3, but I know about the limitations that Tuidjy listed above.

mivayan · #4 May 28th, 2007, 05:40 PM

In a solo game I haven't touched since 3.06, against MA vanheim who has air mages, I got this message from a spell, not an event:

Suddenly a whirlwind appeared out of the sky and snatched away Benim and anyone standing too close. But about a hundred feet up the wind lost it's grip and Benim fell to the ground.

Sounds like a failed wind ride. A commander named Benim is in the province shown with (goto province).

SelfishGene · #5 August 7th, 2007, 11:46 AM

Doesn't one of the boots (Boots of Trampling?) confer resistance to Wind Ride?

Kristoffer O · #6 August 7th, 2007, 12:02 PM

I think it is bugged. At least it is reported as such in the beta forum.

Unless someone recently has seen it work I would consider it broken.

Xietor · #7 August 7th, 2007, 12:29 PM

It works-inconsistently. But if you have the air mages and air gems to waste-it does work at times.

If the commander is over size 2 though, when it does work it only moves him 1 or 2 provinces. So if you are trying to give a big size commander a ride, make sure you do not drop him in a province you do not want him in.

PyroStock · #8 August 7th, 2007, 12:32 PM

Quote:

Please let us know if the wind ride works on friendly commanders. It seems to be broken vs enemies. We would like to get some info on this.

I had Wind Ride fail on a my Ivy King (no items) which didn't have anything of Tuidjy's list above. Is there a chance Wind Ride will fail even if the commander is wind-rideable? Otherwise it seems broken.

Edit: Ok, since Ivy King is size3 distance was the problem.