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A quick reminder: Secondshape replaces a unit with another unit when it's being killed. If a Firstshape is set, then a unit reverts back to that after battle. Secondtmpshape replaces a unit with another unit when it's being killed, but that unit will completely vanish after the battle.
As far as I understand it, secondtmpshapes are being used when there are "wild" mounts like Serpents, Wolves, Gryphons, etc., secondshapes for more "domesticated" ones (??) like Hunter Spiders from Black Hunters, Cave Drakes from Cave Knights, etc., while strangely only the Chariot Archer, for example, is being remanned after combat through a firstshape effect.
This is now concerning MA Pythium mostly:
- Serpent Cataphract (3) has secondtmpshape Serpent (4)
- Serpent Cataphract (763) has secondtmpshape Serpent (4)
- Serpent Lord (5) has no secondtmpshape
- Serpent Lord (765) has no secondtmpshape
Bugs:
- Serpent Cataphract (763) should get secondtmpshape Serpent (764), judging from the graphics.
- Serpent Lord (5) should get secondtmpshape Serpent (4), Serpent Lord (765) should get secondtmpshape Serpent (764).
- The Serpent Cataphract and Serpent Lord have Plate Hauberks as armor, the Serpents (4+764) have no armor listed, which doesn't quite agree with their graphics and renders Destruction etc. ineffective.