[Cainehill]

No, Wyxard. It doesn't even need an item or spell that changed from Version to Version for the replay to be completely, 100% different. Think of it in terms of a dice game, where what you saw was the result of one set of random dice rolls, instead of a different set of dice rolls.

If a Charm spell was cast on one of your leaders on the first round, and one dice roll meant it was successful, and another dice roll meant it wasn't, that can _totally_ change the battle results, especially given somewhat retarded spell casting AI.

For instance - I've seen one of my mages get charmed. Oops - one of my other mages is scripted to cast Blade Wind, and casts it on the charmed mage who is in the middle of my other mages. There goes 9 or so mages, just like that. If the charm spell hadn't been successful, the blade wind would have been cast elsewhere, and I wouldn't have lost 9 mages right away.

Or think in terms of the Japanese game Pachinko. Hey - it's the exact same playing board, the same pins, the same size ball, but the result is completely different each time.