spells always missing?

Odd. In my game I have yet to miss.

I am hitting every time as well.  Did you start a new game with the patch?

hrm, got the same issue... all magic is missing pretty much all the time.   I've taken to auto resolving most and sucking up the loss of mana.  Actually, with the slower pace i've got a kill squad already and haven't faced a challenge yet.

Ditto.  I've tried several spells and nothing hits at all.   I don't see how I can keep missing guys with 0 armor. 

Sigh.

Remember if you are using a 1.07 save game the default behavior is to use the old 1.07 xml thats tied to the save game.  Start a new 1.08 game and see what happens then.

New games work fine.  Old games... not so much.  

Yeah the issue seems to be with the bugfix mod and the icecrown mods.  I deleted both and spells work fine now.

Yep, this is the problem.  I had a brand new game for 1.08 and only had Icecrowns spell graphic mod.  Every single spell I cast would miss.  After disabling mods and deleting the files in the mod directory (and making a new game again) I was able to hit with spells.

When we are at this: Could it be that real reason why old or modded games are affected with misses, is due to change how shard numbers work. Previously, num_shards stat gave value of 1 with 0 shards (2 with 1 shard, etc...) and it was multiplied by base damage. Now num_shards is actual number of shards. So if yo have 0 shards and use old ruleset you are pretty much screwed. You damage will be multiplied with zero.

No hits at all here!!!!