Spell Question: Mind Hunt interception

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On page 210 of the manual, the chance of intercepting Mind Hunt and Astral Projection is stated as "40% per enemy astral level". I am wondering what happens with an astral 3 mage in this example. Does it get a 120% chance to feeblemind the enemy Mind Hunt caster, or three 40% rolls to catch it?

[Twan]

In a game with Arco I happened to mind hunt in one of my provinces (where there were several spies) and Rlyeh attacked it in magic phase with one S4 mage. My 4 mind hunters were all feebleminded, so I think it's (levelx40)% and not 40%/40%/40%/40%.

But I may also have been unlucky (I was anyway... as all my mages seem to have cast after Rlyeh's teleport spell).

[Meglobob]

Twan said:But I may also have been unlucky (I was anyway... as all my mages seem to have cast after Rlyeh's teleport spell).

But were you unlucky? Or was Rlyeh just very clever, I am not sure.

We know that in both battle and movement it is not random who goes first. The mages/commanders act in the order they are listed. So if Rlyeh had alot of S4's in one place would him sending the top one, with the lowest unit number I believe, vastly increase his chances of that mage casting his ritual before yours?

I am not sure wether this is true or not, anyone know for sure?

[kasnavada]

I think I read in those forums that the spell order is "semi-random", meaning that rituals either start from the end of the id list or the start. I'm not sure though. If it works that way : casting with someone at the top of the list instead of the middle make him either avoid everything or take all, instead of being targetted by "half" of the "attackers".

[moderation]

R'yleh also has stealthy S1 assassins, so it may be hard to say exactly what your Mind Hunter was up against.

[lch]

moderation said:
On page 210 of the manual, the chance of intercepting Mind Hunt and Astral Projection is stated as "40% per enemy astral level". I am wondering what happens with an astral 3 mage in this example. Does it get a 120% chance to feeblemind the enemy Mind Hunt caster, or three 40% rolls to catch it?

You could start a test game, crank up the debug level to really high levels, and then look how many rolls are made.