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From my reading, you can cast all spells except magic missile while in combat, right? And the models you are in combat only block line of sight if they actually are between your eyes and the unit you are targeting?

So there's nothing stopping a lord of change blasting caress of laniph at another character over the heads of the spearmen he is fighting? Or throwing a purple sun towards that other unit, which will also almost necessarily hit the unit in close combat as well?

True LOS is exactly what it says: if you can see it, you can see it.

think of it like this,

take a laser pointer where the models head would be if you can get the laser to touch the target you can affect it. the rules for what counts and doesnt count in LoS is in the BRB.