Anti SC spells

[OG_Gleep]

I can never get the Eth Xbow to hit a SC.

[NTJedi]

OG_Gleep ...

Precision of the unit holding the ethereal crossbow

Shoot at the type of SC so if it's a flyer... set command for shoot flyer... if it's a larger tartarian set command for shoot largest.

Spells like eagle eye or aim help if that unit has them

don't bring a single commander with an ethereal crossbow... I would recommend 2 or 3.

[Morkilus]

How about disintegrate? In my SP game last night, I assaulted the Pythium fort and spammed disintegrate with Onyx amazons, and to my surprise and pleasure, it killed their Naga pretender in the first shot, even with a load of other troops around. And it makes a cool shattering noise

[NTJedi]

Yes disintegrate works too... I recommended this in a previous post as well.

[Cainehill]

Believe the Ethereal Crossbow has an MR check, so many SC types will be able to ignore it, especially as the items that aid in overcoming MR only affect actual spells that are cast, and not weapons / attacks with MR effects.

[Endoperez]

It's not that much worse than Soul Slay without penetration helpers... And it's much cheaper, as S1 mage can do it, and need not even be the one to use it.

[shovah]

yea, you could always stick the bow on a cheap little commander and hope for the best (or a n1 mage scripted to eagle eyes, fire large enemy)