Final Newbie Question (or compilation of questions!)

[Fate]

About the repeated Sermon of Courage castings. The spell hits random squares (well, the first square is 100 precision and will always hit the target, but all subsequent sqares are randomly placed around it). So there is most likely 1 or more squares of troops missed. You can veryify this by looking through your troops and seeing that while many (maybe most) have the better morale, not all do.

This applies to all AoE spells with an AoE > 1 (the Mass xxxx spells), so don't expect them to hit all of whatever your force is in one casting, even though it should be large enough to cover them.

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by Fate

About the repeated Sermon of Courage castings. The spell hits random squares (well, the first square is 100 precision and will always hit the target, but all subsequent sqares are randomly placed around it). So there is most likely 1 or more squares of troops missed. You can veryify this by looking through your troops and seeing that while many (maybe most) have the better morale, not all do.

This applies to all AoE spells with an AoE > 1 (the Mass xxxx spells), so don't expect them to hit all of whatever your force is in one casting, even though it should be large enough to cover them.

Thats not exactly true. At least its not my understanding of true.

They don't hit random squares. They hit a predetermined pattern.

Additionally, it is my belief that the the AI casts to maximize results. It may miss, but it still attempts.


So what I am saying is suppose you were casting Mass X.


The template is


7 1
6 02 4
3
5 9

Edit: Ruined by ascii graphics, but I was making it up anyway).
(I'm making that up). If you were to position single individual troops in that exact pattern you would get a hit every time precision wasn't missed.

Seems like way too much work tho