Another one bites the dust

[thejeff]

Contingency orders would be a nightmare. Scripting, especially of mages, is already the biggest time suck in the game. This would be a huge multiplier. And you'd have to do it in MP, because you'd lose to anyone who did.

Some things wouldn't be bad. Separate battle and assassination scripts. Maybe separate can use gems/can't use gems scripts. Not much else.

[rdonj]

It sounds like you need to - have your mages closer to the front, script more carefully what spells you want cast (buffing for the first two turns will help a lot with useful fatigue use), or use the hold command more often. All of these will help with getting more effective spellcasting out of your mages.

Also mage SCs like we were talking about a while back in a different thread. They take a fair amount of research but are the best way to kill off AI armies. Even gearing some mages just to be harder to kill by random stray arrows can go a long way towards increasing the effectiveness of your AI-killing.

[Knai]

Originally Posted by thejeff

Some things wouldn't be bad. Separate battle and assassination scripts. Maybe separate can use gems/can't use gems scripts. Not much else.

That would be really nice.