Something strange happened...
 

There I was playing a SP game with Man when my pretender suddenly disappeared from the game. Yes, I DO mean disappeared. One turn he was there, the next, after a battle I won without casualties he was not. I checked and rechecked the actual comat and he was no there from the beggining of the battle. So, I thought about using "Call God" and verything would be ok... some twenty turns later still no effect. I am new to the game and would be delighted if someone could tell me what is going on. It is a bit hard for me to start all over, after conquering some 30 provincies in a map of 450...

Thank you in advance.

Re: Something strange happened...
 

Bug. Pretenders are not supposed to just disappear like that. The devs might be able to find something out from the turn file.

Edi

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Fine. Can some kind sould tell me how long it will take to "Call the God" to work? I checked the manual in units orders and Call God was no there.

If I am unable to call my pretender back I will be at a huge disadvantage...

Re: Something strange happened...
 

Call God is described on P. 52 (as per the index of the manual)

Re: Something strange happened...
 

To call back your god if he died (the "call god" order should only be available if he did), you must accumulate at least 40 holy levels : for exemple, if you have 5 second-level priests with this order, you will accumulaire 5x2=10, so it will take 4 turns

Your god will then appear in your capitol (make sure that you still control this province, or your god might die again versus the heretics !)

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Yep!

Thanks!

But I think more than 40 levels have been called...

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Could your god have vanished into space and time/been banished to inferno or anything like that?

Re: Something strange happened...
 

did you have boots on your god?
Did your dominion (the candles) drop to nothing?

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It sounds like some weird kind of bug but it might be that he was sucked into the Void for a while due to a magical effect while wearing Boots of the Planes (or whatever they're called). That or something similar. We've seen a lot of questions about that, so apparently it does happen. If I were you, I'd wait and see if he doesn't pop back up. If he's not back in a year, I'd list it in the bug thread, or possibly start a new thread, as the bug thread is getting a little unwieldy-sorry if someone already answered this one, I'm at work and we've very busy.

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No boots and my dominion was strong across my territories and beyond (started with 5 dom, built 10 more temples, was at 7). It simply vanished without any kind of message.
I don't know if there is some kind of spell that can "banish" other pretender but I guess a message would appear, isn't it?
I would be delighted to provide any interested parties with the turn that happened, but it was maybe 20-30 turns ago and I don't have it saved. Anyways, who can tell me what files need to be saved to preserve a a particular turn?

Guess I am going to start all over. Playing a game without the pretender for me is a bit akin to playing chess without the King. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Thanks all for the nice help!