can you cast wither bones when your own undead are in melee ?

[Boron]

does the battle ai override it or can you cast wither bones into meeleeing troops ?

because this way you would damage both your own and the enemies undeads .
so does this work or not ?

[Norfleet]

Yes, the AI has no objections to inflicting friendly fire if you tell it to do so. In fact, it'll even preferentially target your own troops sometimes, since it isn't aware of deep and insightful tactics like "leading the target" or "missing to hit". Thus, it will aim directly at the target, and, naturally, miss and hit something else, probably something of yours.

[Boron]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Yes, the AI has no objections to inflicting friendly fire if you tell it to do so. In fact, it'll even preferentially target your own troops sometimes, since it isn't aware of deep and insightful tactics like "leading the target" or "missing to hit". Thus, it will aim directly at the target, and, naturally, miss and hit something else, probably something of yours.

ah good cause i think i need it against vampire hordes . unfortunately i am ermor in this game grmml so i will kill lots of my own stuff too .

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Boron:
unfortunately i am ermor in this game grmml so i will kill lots of my own stuff too .

So what? You're Ermor. What do you care if you cremate some of your troops. There's plenty more where they came from ...

[Boron]

Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by Boron:
unfortunately i am ermor in this game grmml so i will kill lots of my own stuff too .

So what? You're Ermor. What do you care if you cremate some of your troops. There's plenty more where they came from ...

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uhm to have a chance i need 2 armies with a shield of about 1500 undeads each . mictlan can throw 500 vampires each turn on me . so if i lose each attack more than 100-200 undeads my valuable mages may be in danger .
i have to devastate his blood grounds so i need to keep both armies about 20 turns alive to succeed

[ August 06, 2004, 11:31: Message edited by: Boron ]

[Endoperez]

Some ideas...
Staff of Storms grounds the vampires, so you can cast Wither bones once or twice safely. You probably won't have air magic though.

Banefire Archers could work, but would be expensive chaff if the vampires get to them. Risky.

If the commanders of that army are not undead you could try casting something that has no effect on undead. Quess who will be targeted...