my mages cast crap spells?

[jutetrea]

I'd love to be able to just check/uncheck a spell from a list to make it available to battlefield mages. Don't think we need to go so far as personal rankings, but maybe (ick, even more micro).

I'd also like a toggle per mage in the army setup screen to determine max # of useable gems per combat. Possibly just a set of 5 radio buttons, leave blank for none, click 1 button for max use of 1 gem per combat, 2, 3, etc. Bloody annoying to give 30 gems to a good mage and have them gone in 2 battles.

Have a script command for Self buff, army buff, offensive. For instance, I hate scripting mages as well..but then they waste the first 3 turns and 60 fatigue buffing themselves when they aren't even gonna get scratched.

I'd like it to be set up so it can be like no self buffs, 2 army buffs, then offensive for the rest of the battle using a max of 3 gems. (from an "approved" list maybe).

Is it me or do the AI mages seem to do better at spell selection?