So I was doing some testing on the viability of spells in the late game.

One very interesting thing I noticed while testing out an AOE spell, Arcane Strike.

The damage seemed very random. Sometimes I did 0 damage, and other times I would do over a hundred damage without any real rhyme or reason. After some more experiments, I noticed that it did much more damage against units that had multiple figures. Then it dawned on me: The damage listed for the spell is applied PER FIGURE in the unit!

My caster had 30 int and no air shrines boosting the damage. On a full company of 12 figures, the damage it did was (30-armor)*12 to the entire unit. On average, I was doing between 100 and 200 damage to the entire unit. Often, this was enough to annihilate it completely!

Has anyone else done any testing that had similar results, or any confirmation from anyone in Stardock that this is the case for some spells?

I'm going to go back and test with some other spells, but wanted to throw this out there as it was a very exciting discovery!