Spell casting routine is seriously screwed?

[thejeff]

That might actually be a bug. I don't think the AI realizes that Legions of Steel doesn't work on units without armor.

In Dom2 it did, right? I know Earth bless did. And some of the other armor handling changed. Maybe the spell-casting AI didn't keep up with the changes?

[Sombre]

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way from stopping it casting legions of steel on unarmoured guys. It also likes to keep casting it, because since it doesn't work, the AI can't tell the units have already had it cast on them.

[konming]

I would hate to have my air mage to cast arrow fend instead of fog warrior in a decisive battle.

Since this was a test game, I was able to rerun it several time. Sometimes the mage does cast army of lead but most of the time he just cast army of gold. And I do not think it is the fatigue either. Because after army of lead he only has 70 some fatigue, not exactly 200+.

What's wierder is that in one rerun, E6 mage casted army of gold and then army of lead (script: army of lead), and A6 guy casted arrow fend then fog warrior (script: fog warrior).

Due to the randomness of the result, I have to think that this is a bug. A very bad one as well.

[Kristoffer O]

thejeff might be right about the legions of steel. Seems like a possible explanation.

konmig: hmm, forgot what I was thinking. I though I had an explanation for a second there.

[Edi]

thejeff probably is right. Now that it's been mentioned, I remember seeing that behavior several times. I'll add it to the shortlist.

[Meglobob]

In Armadillo as long as I had a A4 mage with 4A gems he cast fog warriors everytime and I cast fog warriors roughly about a million times in that game, give or take a few million...

So this arrow fend instead of fog warriors seems a little strange?

Unless it got introduced in 3.10?

[Kristoffer O]

> and I cast fog warriors roughly about a million times

Yes, you did!