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Right, but my point is that such combo gives you ability to build castle while not being detected by enemy, based upon what people said in this thread. In competitive MP games people have a lot of scouts, and if you see the single enemy commander hanging around certain province for several turns, you know that there is a good chance he is building a castle there. And such privince is a good candidate for the attack with remote summon or whatever you have.

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Speaking of which I have another question. Let's say you are bulding scouts in certain province each turn. If your opponent have a scout of his own in that province, will the enemy scout detect your scout for the first turn in with is was build?

In other words, are scouts visible to enemy for the first turn in which they were created, or they are "hidden" from the very begining?

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They are visible due to their default order (like all others) being defend. The only units that cant be seen when created are those with glamour iirc.

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I am hoping that one day scouts can give a bit more info than they do currently. It would be nice if they also reported population and whether enemy castles are under construction.

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I thought Glamour only gave +25 Stealth if the unit already had Stealth. One of Bogus' group has Glamour, for instance, and I don't think any have stealth (but I could have overlooked that as it doesn't come into play). Similarly, the Gnomes recruitable from some rare site have glamour, but might not be stealthy. And I think the mercenary Air mage has Glamour (hmm... it might've been that he just cast Mirror Image).