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February 12th, 2004, 10:41 PM
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Re: How are you guys controlling spells?
Also some really nice spells (like fireball, inferno, and panic) are on magic items. Give one of those to a non-mage commander, and set him to 'cast spells', and he'll just stand there and cast that one spell over and over as fast as he can.
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February 12th, 2004, 11:51 PM
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Re: How are you guys controlling spells?
Standing near some mages can be like being in a bar with people playing "stomp the landmine".
Run away. Quickly. Keep that in mind when positioning your troops and giving them orders: You definitely want anyone who is not a bodyguard to have fled from those particularly out-of-control mages before they run out of script and start miscasting magic.
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February 13th, 2004, 07:08 AM
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Re: How are you guys controlling spells?
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Originally posted by En Forcer:
That is exactly what I was looking for. I swear it's not in the manual about queing 5 actions like that and then a default after no less.
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sorry, dude .. :
page 14, line 4ff
"Each commander can have up to five turn orders, such as casting a specific spell. After all turn orders are performed, the commander will act on a basic battle order. ..."
Took me 1:43 to find. The manual isn't really that bad, if anyone would care to read it thoroughly. Maybe they should have highlightened the most important facts. Seems like they're easily overlooked.
[ February 13, 2004, 09:38: Message edited by: Arralen ]
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February 13th, 2004, 07:23 AM
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Re: How are you guys controlling spells?
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(shrewd tactics)
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February 13th, 2004, 07:39 AM
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Re: How are you guys controlling spells?
Funny how bad a tactician he was until "It was near the end of the war"
What in the world was he doing up until then? Sleeping? Lazy arm commander.
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February 13th, 2004, 05:01 PM
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Re: How are you guys controlling spells?
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Took me 1:43 to find. The manual isn't really that bad, if anyone would care to read it thoroughly. Maybe they should have highlightened the most important facts. Seems like they're easily overlooked.
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Thanks, Arralen. I woulda found it after another week or so. But I agree that the layout of the manual is a bit obtuse. Technical writing is a ***** so I'm not gonna slam the production folks. And it WAS there....
Which makes me wonder how many more items are squirreled away in the cracks? Guess I have to go line by line with a magnifying glass... 
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