Repel

[Bat/man]

Foo:

I'm not saying you need to cast Wrathful skies and Blood Rain to make repel useful.

Either of these - not to mention other spells (frightern, terror, wailing winds?) or frightening units will increase the effectiveness of repel. So will starving.

And there are enough times it can be useful to merit a mention.
So for example if you have spearmen and you cast blood rain as bogarus the incidence of repel will go up. Of course if you cast that as Bogarus you better have a good plan for *your* morale as well.

Additionally, I don't understand your comment about *ranges* as it pertains to melee weapons. The units are adjacent. The longer weapon has a chance to repel the shorter one.