Rain of stones, and gifts from the sky

[Twan]

If I've understood correctly (and my memories of using this spell had results around this) rain of stone has one effect per square and so touches about 1/3 of all units per cast (if they are size 2, and so are 3/square).

Like earthquake, it's mundane dammage, so body ethearal works against this, and mistform is only negated if dammage roll is high (but it's less safe than earthquake, the 14 dammage + DRN often remove mistform on some protection 0 units like unfortunate mages).

[llamabeast]

Twist fate definitely works against Gifts from Heaven, as in my last MP game it saved countless of my S9 sacreds from it.

Mistform is amazing. Even against magical things they will only take 1 damage, although it will be negated. So with something like Gifts from Heaven, that's an extra life. I bet it will make units almost immune to Rain of Stones.

[OmikronWarrior]

Llamabeast beat me to it, but mistform is pretty neat. Yes, magic weapons will dispel the effect (as will really lucky hits or really hard hits), but the dispelling hit will still only do 1 damage, even if it is magic. I'm sure this effects Gifts from Heaven as well.

[atul]

Are you people really certain that Rain of Stones affects every square in the battlefield? That isn't what I've seen. If you pause the game just at the RoS animation, you see that the visual effect doesn't hit every square, maybe about 1/3 of all. If it'd hit every square, it'd be even better mage-killer than it is currently.

Mistform really is a life-saver, especially against Banefire-casting nations, like LA C'tis...

[Kristoffer O]

atul said:
Are you people really certain that Rain of Stones affects every square in the battlefield? That isn't what I've seen. If you pause the game just at the RoS animation, you see that the visual effect doesn't hit every square, maybe about 1/3 of all. If it'd hit every square, it'd be even better mage-killer than it is currently.

Mistform really is a life-saver, especially against Banefire-casting nations, like LA C'tis...

To save graphics or the watchers eyes, most battle field spells do not display an animation on every square. I think all battlefield spells target the whole field, but there might be exceptions.

[Edi]

Rain of stones indeed hits everything on the battlefield. Physical damage, so helmets and armor help a lot against it. Otherwise you need luck and/or ethereality.

[atul]

Okay, that's what I get for trusting my own eyes.

But then, I assume Twan's interpretation is right, for I've seen many unarmoured mages survive RoS castings? Or should I replace my memory in addition to my eyes?

[Twan]

Edi said:
Rain of stones indeed hits everything on the battlefield. Physical damage, so helmets and armor help a lot against it. Otherwise you need luck and/or ethereality.

Yes I wasn't thinking so but it was because I often used the spell against undeads who have sufficient protection or hp to often survive one cast. I've done a test using 2000 protection 0 Machaka militia instead and the spell killed 1646 of them, it really hits all units and not one per square (the strange thing is : like previous poster I also remember to have seen many unprotected/unbuffed mages surviving the spell in some games).