Question about underwater fights...
 

So recently I have been duking it out with MA R'lyeh.

Long story short, I am attacking them with a thugged out Fairy Queen with a few body guards.

R'lyeh of course has hundreds of slaves and other such things. So I decide to script my FQ to cast polymorph. Well it works! And I am getting hundreds of easy to deal with pigs. The problem that isnt working (at least I thought it should) is that the pigs are continuing to fight. Now shouldnt they drown? Or does that only happen after the fight?

No water breathing items on any of the enemy commanders or anything. Is this the way it should work?

Re: Question about underwater fights...
 

Rlyeh have amphibious troops, as good underwater as on land.

Take a look at the pictures below the statistics on units, use the cursor on them to see what they do. There can be a cyan lizard type thing with a tail curling round that means the unit is amphibious. There's a fish, which means it's aquatic and can't go on land. The other one is a green frog, which means poor amphibian - although it can enter sea as well as go on land without an item, it will take penalties underwater.

I've not tested polymorphIf the pigs still have an ampihibious symbol from their prior incarnation as a sea beastie, they'll be fine after the fight. If not, they'll probably drown after the battle is over.

Re: Question about underwater fights...
 

The pigs are holding their breath for the duration of the fight. After that they will float to the surface and swim to shore. I suspect this is the real reason Illwinter coded a 50-turn limit into all battles, just so we wouldn't have to worry about any pigs drowning when caught in this exact situation.

Re: Question about underwater fights...
 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
That explans everithing. Tnx. :)

Re: Question about underwater fights...
 

pig can swim? i didn't knew that! you learn more things here than in school

Re: Question about underwater fights...
 

Pigs hold unofficial records in a number Olympic swimming events. Watching a pig do the butterfly is a thing of sublime beauty. However the IOC has banned them from formal events stemming from the infamous "Mak'n Bacon" swim team expos'e in 1996.

-ssj

Re: Question about underwater fights...
 

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pig's ban was a cia/kgb/fbi/nasa/mlb conspirancy?
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Re: Question about underwater fights...
 

The evidence is shaky on NASA's involvement... but yes regarding the rest.
-ssj

Re: Question about underwater fights...
 

This is my favourite thread ever.

Re: Question about underwater fights...
 

phew, thanks i was worring about being crazy