Newbie question about orders...

[Kadelake]

Originally Posted by WingedDog

He dodged it because of luck, not defense skill.

No, the unit did not have luck. The description of most touch spells says something vague about "trying to touch" the target but poison touch explicitly says that "a successful attack roll is required". I ran some tests with water blessed Sidhe (def 25) vs Gygjas (att 7), see results below. At first I though that maybe they had missed the target square, or hit the square but missed the target like a missile, but I checked the debug log and it hit a full square without any effect. The debug log doesn't mention any attack rolls though so I'm not sure what determines if the spells hit or miss. I tried blinding all the Gygjas but that didn't seem to affect the hit rate.

Hit Miss Spell
h2 m0 Hand of dust
h5 m0 Hand of death
h4 m7 Leeching touch
h2 m0 Sleep touch
h4 m5 Poison touch

An example of the log when a spell misses:
castspell: cnr24 spl337 (Poison Touch) vis0 x36 y15 spldmg5005 vis 0 xvis 0 blastsqr: unr778 x36 y15 aoe0 dmg15 eff7 spc1082138752 as10039 al9 ustatbox unr819 sel00137450 guiarea