Province targeting spells which conceal the caster

[SelfishGene]

Which spells can i cast on an enemy province that hide the identity of the caster? For example Baleful Star and Blight - would i be revealed to my enemy if these were used? I know that i can cast Wolven Winter safely.

Of course, he could well figure out what happening, and still accuse me, but i just want to annoy his capital every few turns.

[Boron]

sunrays library has infos for many such spells http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif perhaps some are altered per newer patches but i don't think so . there is a description if the spell is anonymous or not http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
http://www.freewebs.com/dominions2/spells.html

[SelfishGene]

Ah thanks so much for the link. You know my neighbors are just to going be so frustrated with how much bad luck they're about to have from now on http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif . Casting spells indirectly, causing unrest, lowering income, killing pop, ect, is just my style.

[Norfleet]

Well, if you do it too much, people are going to become very suspicious. One of the problems with flinging crap is that it's difficult to do without getting some on you.

[Tuna-Fish]

Just be the loudest one complaining of those spells on the open comms http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Boron]

hm *g
only problem perhaps :
i have read that you can only have 3 random events / turn i another thread here on the forum .
if random events are set common and if you have 15-20 provinces you get almost every round 3 random events. so there will be 4 and the player knows that someone cast it on him . then he just has to check the pathcosts of the ritual and look at the other players which ones national mages could have these path . most likely you have to do more important things to do with your pretender .
so for the first 20 or so turns his guess who has most likely done it can be made with a probability of at least 70-80% i guess http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
later when path increasing items are forged and independent mages are found it can be almost everyone though .

if one has taken luck 3 and gets these bad spells cast on him by you quite often he will get suspicious too .

i would try to do it not on my neighbors but the farer away players http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
i think they will believe that one of their neighbors did this to them http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif just hope that your scout doesn't get discovered or get the info which is the capitol / richest province of the target in another way http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

many of them are quite expensive or have high requirements :
tidal wave e.g. kills 40% of population this is excellent . but it is evocation 9 and needs water 5 +15 gems so it is for lategame.

but which one i find really nice at the moment is blight http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
alteration 4 so you get it quite quick http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
2E 1D are the requirements and 5 earth gems .
a machaka black sorcerer can cast it .

the impact you get from the 5 gems is nice :
-40 gold for the target
- 5% poploss
- 15 points unrest according to sunrays library http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
so your target normally has either to reduce the tax for 1 turn to about 50% to get back to 0 unrest or loose around 10-20% of his taxincome in this province every turn the unrest doesn't get reduced http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

but i think an arrow from the sky which most probably kills a standard unproteced mage is better than the population killing unrest increasing spells .