Buffing

Aezeal · #1 April 4th, 2008, 06:05 AM

don't you need to have armor for legions of steel?

capnq · #2 April 4th, 2008, 06:29 AM

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Aezeal said: don't you need to have armor for legions of steel?

Yes, Legions of Steel only affects troops that are wearing armor.

ComTrav · #3 April 4th, 2008, 06:52 AM

Kas: What I really need intel on right now is Marignon Harbringers =).

Yes, you're all right about Legions of Steel only working on armoured units, which is why it's so strange that the Pan set it cast it casts it on the Maenads but Wooden Warriors and Iron Warriors get cast on my Centaur Archers.

kasnavada · #4 April 4th, 2008, 07:05 AM

Hehe, good !

I can't help though for Marignon. For the matter of legion of steel and other spells being casted seemingly at random, it's true that it's strange. In one of my games, the pans actually casted legion of steel in on themselves when there was no units around them...

What are your armies made of ? Only centaurs archers and maenads ? Or also other kind of units ? It's very possible that since they cost (a lot more) the AI decides that the maenads are not worth protecting. In that case, using minotaurs and centaur "melee" units could make those protection spells target them instead. It's not a "fix" but it would help not wasting them. Another idea would be to use the centaur archers as melee units. It can work quite well in some situation, as I've learned when I scripted them on attack rather than fire, but centaur warriors would probably do a better job.

thejeff · #5 April 4th, 2008, 08:35 AM

Legions of Steel targeting unarmored troops is on the buglist. I thought it had been fixed, but there's nothing on the progress page, so I must have misremembered.

Not much that can be done about it at the moment. You can try to play with positioning, but it's fairly long range.

Sombre · #6 April 4th, 2008, 09:12 AM

We were told LoS had been fixed, but to be honest it doesn't seem to be. It still gets cast on units with no armour, though I'm not sure if it happens as often.

The classic one was my white priest casting on himself (it only landed on him) when he had a big army of heavily armoured Ulmish infantry in front of him and personally wasn't wearing any armour. Nice going retard. He then used blade wind on like 3 mict slingers rather than the big mass of unblessed eagle warriors the AI was throwing at me.

Humakty · #7 April 4th, 2008, 11:46 AM

I can confirm the spellcasting AI is still quite stupid, it is barely able to cast offensive spells, but zone buffs are blatantly buggy. I wonder how many MP players lost a two month game because of retarded casters.

Worst, you can't have this odious traitor executed for is blatant treason !