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Positive. My dead Sea King has -972 hit points, and he had 27. So the Burden o Time inflicted 999 hit points. I suspect other death effects do the same thing. Certainly, the Ethereal Crossbow actually claims to inflict 999 points of damage on some screens.

As to a Sphinx, in a Golem Cult it gains 100 hit points per point of Dominion before it even gets any XP. So at dominon 10 it's going to have 1500 hit points at the start of the game.

-Frank

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Couldn't it just be a symbolic damage assessed after the unit fails its rolls? After all, it has some purpose -- 999 damage should give a massive chance of an affliction on anything non-regenerating, for instance, and this matters for both HoF (mummies) and immortals.

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It is 999 in damage. And sphinxes in home dominion can survive soul slay, burden of time etc. It has been this way since dom1.

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OK, Manifestation. It claims a 50% return rate when the caster sends it out. I know that it can attack your own stuff in the province (and thus it differs sharply from Earth Attack), but how does it actually work?

Is it a 50% chance per leader of being "suitable" each turn? (that would make your chances of having it attack an enemy leader in a big army near 100%) Is it a 50% chance of any leader being "sitable", followed by a random draw as to which leader it is?

Give me a bone here...

-Frank