Arrow Fend

[Warhammer]

It seemed nether bolts and shadow bolts missed rather suddenly after the spell fired.

[Meglobob]

Warhammer said:
It seemed nether bolts and shadow bolts missed rather suddenly after the spell fired.

Thats interesting...errm never thought of arrow fend as a counter to those spells.

Perhaps, it just effects all bolt spells?

[Xietor]

Dr. P worked out how arrow fend works, and it is posted somewhere early in the Alpaca game thread. If i recall any spell that is not aoe is affected by arrow fend(ie blade wind).

So if the spell targets 1 unit, and is not aoe 1, it is affected by arrow fend. That is what i recall of Dr. P's analysis of how the spell is coded.

[Ironhawk]

Wow, thats pretty cool. I suppose there are too many battle-winning type combat spells that are single target. Still thats another feather in the cap for Air nations

[Meglobob]

Heres a thought, does the air bless work in the same way arrow fend does?

[DrPraetorious]

AoE attacks are definitely *not* blocked by arrowfend.

Blade Wind definitely *is* blocked by arrowfend.

Flaming Arrows definitely *are* blocked by arrowfend.

I'm not sure about:
1) Magical missile weapons other than flaming arrows, the Howling Bow for example.
2) Single target attack spells which are non-physical, like fire darts, nether darts or shadow bolt.

[Sombre]

What about non projectile single target spells? For instance a prison of fire type spell which aims at one target. Or something like incinerate?

How does the game know the spell is a projectile?