[Edi]

Originally posted by Vynd:
The manual says that cursed items and artifacts are more likely to be found than other items. I've never heard of people finding items that were dropped on a previous turn.

I have. Had a Wraith Lord armed with the Sickle Whose Crop Is Pain and other nifty stuff, as well as another one equipped to the max. An enemy Lich and his assorted backup whacked both of them and I lost a ****load of expensive equipment. Four turns later I stomped the offending nation to tiny little bits and my various support commanders got back roughly a third of the equipment that got lost (including the Sickle). I've also had it happen to me on another occasion where an equipped firbolg got hammered and then his killers stomped a few turns later.

The amount of equipment I got back was rather large given how much is usually never found in the first place.

Edi