Oi! Who\'s being mean to my elephants?
 

While accompanying my priestesses on ward rounds recently, I discovered to my dismay that well over 50% of our elephants had had both eyes poked out. Naturally we were all distressed about this - Elephants are, after all, our friends.

Are some battle aflictions more common than others, or is there some sneaky magical trick I should be looking out for?

I can see a priestess with a gleam in her eye and a nasty looking sacrificial dagger in her hand. She wants to know the answer, and I think there could be trouble when we find the culprit...

Re: Oi! Who\'s being mean to my elephants?
 

I've only been fighting Indies and Abysia.

Re: Oi! Who\'s being mean to my elephants?
 

Other people can learn blindness, too.

Was it simply the Blindness affliction, or was it Lost one eye and Lost the other eye too?

PvK

Re: Oi! Who\'s being mean to my elephants?
 

If it's just Blindness, that's probably from the Blindness spell.

If it's the second, then there are two or more magic items which target eyes (eye shield, and I think a ranged weapon, and maybe some others).

PvK

Re: Oi! Who\'s being mean to my elephants?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It was "Lost one eye and lost the other eye too."

I'll have to look out for the nasty magic items.

Re: Oi! Who\'s being mean to my elephants?
 

If you're seeing a lot of units missing both eyes, somebody is likely firing a Vision's Foe at you: It's a crossbow that instantly puts out all of the eyes of the target (probably with bolts that fragment before impact) on a hit.

Re: Oi! Who\'s being mean to my elephants?
 

You probably ran into some of Machakan mages. Machaka starts with Blindness spell.

Re: Oi! Who\'s being mean to my elephants?
 

I do like the line for the spider riders of Machaka when they lose one eye, but are not totally blinded. “Has lost a bunch of eyes.” It is those little touches that make this game so wonderful.

Re: Oi! Who\'s being mean to my elephants?
 

spiders' eyes
Actually, if the spider loses one eye, the line says "lost an eye". But as they have eight of them, they shurely could "lose of couple of" them before becoming blinded.
The cyclops has only one eye to lose...
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blinding elephants
.. it might be pure coincidence, but I'm under the impression the flyers which attack with claws (hawks, harpies) go for the head first and have an increased chance to inflict the "lost an eye" affliction. After all, their overall damage and chance to inflict "critical" damage is rather low, but I think I observed an extraordinarily amount of "picked eyes" with Pangaean harpies.

But it could be wishful thinking as well ..

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[ June 29, 2004, 04:32: Message edited by: Arralen ]

Re: Oi! Who\'s being mean to my elephants?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">If the spider has a rider (look at this, it rimes http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ) then all afflictions apply to rider - and rider has 2 eyes.
However if spider loses rider (no rime http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif ) all afflictions are his own.

For example, if spider with rider http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif gets diseased he will slowly lose his hp until the rider dies. After that a spider will remain healthy (and no disease!).