Hellbind -- What am I doing wrong?

[rylen]

I'm trying one of the Book O' Tactics things in SP ... and it isn't working as well as I think it should.

I'm playing Abyssia and have an air mage source. I've set up a province to "windride" in 1-2 enemy commanders each month. That works fine. I'm providing ~4 Warlocks w/ 5 blood slaves each, plus Penetration items (blood thorn, skull, pearl, the penetration wand) and scripted them to cast "hellbind heart" repeatedly. I script the air mages to spend time buffing so they won't kill my victim before I can snare him. I deploy the blood mages arcoss the line all the way forward.

But it doesn't work. They cast astral sheild or etheral body. They waste time until the scripts run out (3rd or 4th turn) and cast soul slay. I've had mages run forward one turn (attack, hellbind, hellbind) and they still don't do the hellbind.

So, where am I going wrong?

Rylen