Magic Resistance

[K]

Originally Posted by Executor

If you cast something like flaming arrows which makes your attack
magical and thus able to hurt etherial beings would it still be
considered a magic attack if you had 100% FR?

Yes. Magical is a separate tag. It allows weapons to hurt ethereal beings, and magical arrows have a small increase to precision (the mechanic is not Precision, but something different where the arrow has a better chance of hitting a unit in the square it lands...whatever).

[Ironhawk]

[quote=K;638311]

Originally Posted by Executor

... and magical arrows have a small increase to precision (the mechanic is not Precision, but something different where the arrow has a better chance of hitting a unit in the square it lands...

Is this confirmed true? I've never heard of anything like this hidden precision bonus before.

[Tyrant]

Kinda hard to say whether it's true, but it's in the manual. I don't have it handy to reference a page number, but look under missile mechanics- once it has been determined what square a missile lands in there is a check to see if it hits anyone in the square involving some peculiar calculations based on target size and, IIRC, magic missiles have a +2 on that check.

[K]

[quote=Ironhawk;638919]

Originally Posted by K

Is this confirmed true? I've never heard of anything like this hidden precision bonus before.

Page 77 of the manual(look at the attacker calculation). According to a post by KO, Flaming Arrows makes the arrows magical, so they get this small bonus.