Spellbattle

At 16:05 30.01.1998, you wrote:

>What I really wanted to start discussion on, though, was any ship-to-ship
>spells that others have created. The situation as it stands is a bit odd,
>in my opinion, because even if you do happen to run across an evil mage in
>his dragonfly, all you have to do is stand off three hexes away and blast
>his ship to flinders. Evil mages would know this :) and design spells to
>counter it. It would also give combat mages something to do even at long
>range.

The problem is that powerful mages would dominate the game if you give
them many long range spells. In our group are two mages(LVL.15&11) and
a priest(LVL.10). In an encounter with ships of tonnage <60 it is
not uncommon that they teleport or use dimensional reduction (I do not know
the term in english) to reach the other ship and flame everything while the
rest of our group is boring themselves to death.
Giving mages long range fighting power of this scale(12d8=>54HP=>5 Hullpoints)
will make conventional weapons useless because of their reloading time and
their low hit probability. You have not to forget that a mage has 100%
chance of damaging the enemy.
Therefore it would be better to restrict the research of such spells.

Bjoern