This was caused by the lack of a "radius" attribute.

Which tactical.lua makes good use of the talent's "target" value, for
the initial range check it ignores this and uses the sum of
getTalentRadius and getTalentRange. So, while Biting Gale had a
perfectly good target table, because the radius was not stored in a
separate radius value the AI was assuming it to have a range of 0 and
thus never using it.

I've searched through the entire code base, and not found any other
cases exactly like this. I have, however, found a few which could be
mildly improved. I'll consider uploading a bundle of such fixes later.

Fixed Archery to properly do on_hit, on_crit, and on_kill effects.  It can now handle multiple types of each from ranged weapons and ammo.

Twist Fate gives better messages when an anomaly is targeted

Savefiles from previous minor patch versions will not require to check the "old savefiles" checkbox anymore
Savefiles from previous minor patch versions will not display the "download old data" popup anymore

In developer mode an error popup forces all other dialogs to disappear; making sure even level generation errors do popup correctly