How does Charge react to being told to charge a single individual? And how does Duel react to being told to duel someone that has more enemies between them and the Rider?
Do these two imply that the Rider auto-summons without the caster actively casting anything? And how does the first one react to situations with multiple destructive casters, some of whom might not be preferred targets to the controller?
What makes it unsunmon so quickly with Ambush anyway? Why is an Ambush version that strikes more than once not a castable spell?
Will vote later, but congrats pickle!
Boney said Charge would be less effective against single targets because they can either try to get out of the way or hide among a bigger group.
Boney elaborated that we need to cast them before they are in this state where they will act on their own. It's not permanently on.
You presume correctly.
Are you telling me I can't staple a delicious burrito onto my soul? :'(
You will have to find, subdue, and cover in appropriate wind, the said burrito.
Horses are good at some of that, but they can't just wade through troops as if they were water, even if said regiments are not armed with spears. And that's especially true if One wins. If the Rider blindly rides through instead of doing things like looking for more accessible angles and/or actively hacking at obstacles impeding it then that would be worse than using Charge to ride down a single target and losing it in the crowd. At least in battlefield environments. In "collateral damage is allowed" chases through crowded areas you'd definitely prefer Duel, but personally I'd prefer not using the spell like that at all. Mathilde (and the average Grey Magister) have enough tools to hunt and kill escaping VIPs that don't involve riding over random crowds.
Hmm. That seems good enough for Bodyguard, but could still have all kinds of weird interactions with Instinctive if we are unlucky. The range means that someone somewhere completely unrelated to what we want to do triggers it.
I guess? But there seems to be no problem maintaining the Rider far away, as long as it isn't summoned there. I get that ultimately it comes down to balance and providing multiple valid choices, but I was kind of curious about the Watsonian rationale.
Something like Charge/One or Duel/One would allow a bunch of Grey Magisters to provide their own knight charge just as well or better than a more rare single Grey Battle Mage summoning multiple would.
