Magic script not working

[Buddahxx]

So I have my god, ironically the mother of storms, with 5 air and 20 air gems on her and I'm trying to get her to cast storm as the first spell in a script. For some reason she wont do it and I can't figure out why. Shes got the the path shes got the gems and I'm not in a cave or underwater. My entire combat magic plan is kinda dependent on her casting storm at the start of the battle so if anyone knows why this might happen that info would be super useful.

[Oaks]

Could it be a problem of distance? I don't know the stats of the spell, but for me a few times I've been out of range with the spell I've assigned them to cast.

[Draken]

Are you up against a very small amount of enemies?
I think there is a threshold that has to be met before your mages start using gems at all.

I really noticed that when my main army lost a few dozen guys to a 10 PD province because my mages wouldn't use their gems to cast poison resistance and I had units with poison aura on the field.

[Demonsthenes]

Yeah, this is almost certainly that the enemy army was not deemed to be worth expending gems to fight. Gems should reliably be used when fighting a peer army.

https://illwiki.com/dom5/gembaiting has details on approximately what the algorithm is, but the short story is it does a reasonable job against AI armies of only spending gems when it's an big enough battle you'll need it.

[Draken]

Originally posted by Demonsthenes:

Yeah, this is almost certainly that the enemy army was not deemed to be worth expending gems to fight. Gems should reliably be used when fighting a peer army.

https://illwiki.com/dom5/gembaiting has details on approximately what the algorithm is, but the short story is it does a reasonable job against AI armies of only spending gems when it's an big enough battle you'll need it.

Yeah. Unless of course you have given an army temporary gems so that they can cast certain resistance spells every turn to prevent the army from killing itself.

I really want a "Always use Gems" checkbox in the mage script section.

[boozermonkey]

Ensure you have conservative gem use unchecked and it should go off every fight. Better yet, get a staff of storms.