Questions about a game in progress

[Tichy]

thejeff said:

Worse, anything that happens after spellcasting isn't considered. Newly conquered provinces aren't possible targets, but if you lose a province already targeted it will still be searched.

This one doesn't seem like a problem to me. It just means that the spellcaster acted before the battle happened. (The idea being something like that rituals have to happen exactly the same way everytime, and can't be stopped once they're started, which is often the way powerful magics are treated in fantasy.) Sounds less like a bug and more like a calculated risk.

Now the fact that the autocaster will target vulnerable provinces is a problem because it doesn't model minimally prudent strategy, which would be to target provinces you aren't likely to lose before one's that you are, unless you have good reason to expect a strategically significant gain from it that's worth the risk.