Later AOE Spells are decent, but they are just too few. Cast a decent offensive spell once or twice and then the mage is empty. If you play like defeating an enemy, then resting, defeating the next one, rest, repeat, then yes, you can percieve damage spells as usefull, but the problem is always the lack of ammo if you so will. However the point remains that the spells aren't too good. Anyway, scroll transcription seems to always work regardless of int in EOB. there was no spell bonus for high int? maybe I'm confusing that with 3rd edition. So I would definitely recommend recruiting a single class mage with a high int for your party, so that you can have access to those nice offensive spells, that shorten battles so effectively, as fast as possible. Of course every now and then I do the EOB dance and sidestep attacks, too. My mage supplements the battle with his offensive spells, so that I rarely have to retreat and most of the time the monsters are dead before my frontline characters become unconscious. The faster I can kill an enemy, the less damage is my front row going to take. I give both characters (human paladin and dwarven fighter/thief) the best protective gear and let then both attack with two weapons. My first row has to be able to take a beating and deliver one as well. That just gets hectic in real time combat and since your spell books get closed, when you move party members around, it makes efficient spell casting almost impossible. I also would not bother to switch first (tank) and second row (damage dealer). The higher a mage's int, the more likely he is to succeed when trying scribe a spell (with an int of 10 you only have a chance of 40% to scribe a spell into your spell book) and it gives him acces to higher level spells (with an int of 10 you can only learn spells up to the 5th level) and he can scribe more spells of a certain level into his spellbook ((with an int of 10 you can only scribe 7 spells per spell level). Clerics get bonus spells for high wis, but mages do not get bonus spells for higher int.
First of all, there is no such thing as bonus spells for mages because of high int in 2nd edition of AD&D.
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