I played around with the king units from ptw in FLICster today, and got an idea. In the fidget animation they are waving a hand a few times. So I got the idea to use some of the king units as Magicians. Death, run and default would be the same, and the AttackA would use the fidget animation, while the AttackB would use one of the spells made by Kinboat. The result would be a guy waving his hands, turning into a fire ball or gas cloud or lightning, and finally dying or turning into the default.

The downside is that the Magician "disappears" and are replaced by the spell, the upside is that it uses animations already made, and would probably look ok. And the Magician would be a ordinary land unit, not some sort of cruise missile, so it would probably be ok for the AI.
Especially Abu Bakr, Temujin, Ragnar, Osman and Wang Kon would look good as Magicians. :)
If someone who knows how to handle a gif converter could make a little gif of this then that would be cool.

Using the SBB, you could put the spell image and the "king" unit in the same animation. The king would still stand inside his own square, and the spell animation would appear over the square he is facing. Then you dont have to worry about the "king" dying, because he wouldnt. This is what I planned to do earlier, but trying to find more web space has precidence over making more units.

GIDustin

You couldn't post it though, at least not until Firaxis give their affirmation that it is ok to post ptw units. :(

right, forgot that. :(

GIDustin