gunman
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Balancing seems a bit strange at times. While most trash-mobs are no big deal, the occasional magic-using NPCs (like e.g. Silke in Beregost, or Nimbus in Nashkel) resulted in a lot of kills, game-over screens and reloading.
The problem is that even a full party of poorly-equiped lvl 1/2 heroes is not really a match for someone wielding a bunch of lvl3 spells, unless you get lucky.
Infinity BG had its own share of rage-inducing fights against mages, but I don't remember them happening quite so soon.
Looks like faithful reproduction to me. Silke casts lightning bolt, which kills a level 1 or 2 character outright, Nimbul and Tarnesh cast horror and high level magic missiles (5 missiles) which is equally lethal at that level, Neira casts hold and confusion, and so on. You either have to be lucky and disrupt their casting or abuse the game engine in some way in order to survive these encounters every time.
However, once you have several more levels under the belt, the mages in BG1 are a joke.