Spell-caster (real-time strategy)
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A spell-caster or spell-casting unit is a unit type used by players of real-time strategy computer games, such as StarCraft and Warcraft III, to mean units which have special abilities which rely on some form of energy or mana which generally regenerates with time.[1] Often, these units do not have direct methods of attack (or a very weak magical attack), and so rely on their special magical attacks and on other, more combative, game units. Spellcasters which use powerful direct-damage spells are called "nukers".[citation needed]
Spellcasting units usually have less health and lower toughness than other units.
The term originated when many such games had a fantasy setting, but it is now used in a more general sense. Thus, in the StarCraft universe, a Science Vessel can be called a spell-caster. Similarly, the special abilities, regardless of whether they are magical or not, are called "spells."
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