Re: Starting to get frustrated with this game
Well, THAT may just be aim.
If you're new, you may not realize: Everybody has REALLY BAD AIM. A mage with a precision of 10 requires almost miraculous luck to hit their assigned target with any spell. More often than not, they'll be wildly off, even hit your own units.
That's one of the reasons why Illithids are so deadly, because mind burn is a ranged attack that cannot miss and doesn't care about range.
An Eye of Aiming, or preprogramming your mage to cast (I think it's 'Eagle Eye'?) at the start of a fight is absolutely necessary if you plan on using these ranged combat spells. Fortunately, that +5 difference between 10 and 15 takes you from 'unable to hit the broad side of a barn' to 'very accurate'.
And yeah, the AI is outrageously stupid as to which spells it chooses to cast. You can preprogram some to start a fight, or try and force the issue (by giving a non-mage a spellcasting item, or using a mage whose exact magical levels limit him to certain spells), but basically you just have to hope they cast something useful.
Mages get a bit of a bum deal where offensive spells are concerned.
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