Any counter to Fires from Afar?

[Twan]

IIRC in 300mp, you casted flying monkeys on a province where there were my prophet (h3), several astrologer/mystics (s3 something1 or s1 +2/3 ?) and an arco priestess (n1h2). The monkeys targeted the priestess so it seems the highest level spellcasters, holy included, are avoided but they attack the weakest caster if no other commander available.

But you have found something more efficient to divide my troops the same turn (I still wonder how my prophet has stayed with 120 footmen to fight a lone black hawk in the first turn of our war, when 7 other commanders in the same province and with the same order moved, it looks like a very strange result of the new cross-moves system).