Thanks for all the great replies guys. A lot of good info for things I was unaware of. I'm slowly but surly learning more details about spells & items one spell/item at a time.
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Originally Posted by Frozen Lama
7)I don't suppose he was immortal and died then came back at your cap? or maybe he has a second form without full slots and he died and went into the next one?
16) were they in a battle where you had the ankh or cast life after death? starvation wouldn't cause this.
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He might've been changed, trying to remmeber now, I had two leaders that changed, one with twiceborn & ritual of returning. Turns the leader into a wight when he dies & returns to capital if taking damage. I had another magic leader that had some magic item and got changed into a troll. So I guess if a leader dies but gets converted into another form he still loses all his magic items?
It might've been the case, I usually don't watch every single battle movie, since there's so many (I'm in the endgame on a large map). I usually just look at the battle report and watch those that that I've lost, in order to figure out why I lost. I just noticed (later) when setting up my armies in the army setup mode, that a bunch of guys were soulless.
So, I guess what happpened was one of my powerful mages cast a spell that kept the guys alive after death, but they technically died? (so I lost any equipment a soulless leader might have had?). One of my soulless was a fairly strong druid, but I have no way to tell if he lost/reduced any of his magic path values or if other stats were affected (wish there was some way to have a before & after snapshot to see how he was effected). Does anyone know how magic paths & other stats are affected, and if they lost all their items? There's not enough description in the life after death spell on page 242.
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Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker
4) were they attacked? That can kill a move action
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I know they were attacked the first time I moved there, that's why I figured my first movement was nullified, but definitely not the second and third moves. I'm thinking this is some kind of movement bug based upon another forumite's reply.
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Originally Posted by vfb
4) OMG have you solved the movement bug? I can't remember if I had a friendly scout in the destination provinces when this bug has hit me. Anyway, there is a movement bug, which may have something to do with sneaking or hidden armies, where your army ignores your command to move. I'll be sure to move any scouts out of the destination province if I get hit with the bug in the future, and see if that fixes it.
5) Don't tell your leaders to "Stay behind troops" unless you've got something like archers (who don't move) to stay behind. Sounds like they are chasing up behind your elephants. Spellcasters/archer commanders should be fine ... are they?
7) Did he get an affliction or get injured and shape-change?
9) Once you have resaerched everything in a particular path, there is nothing gained by researching further in that path. Hit F5.
11) You can also give the spear to a scout, who can cast the spell once, then retreat. The Lesser Horror will probably go attack the enemy.
13) Woundflame causes battle Plague, it does not disease provinces. Give it to an undead or lifeless or demon commander and send him into battle. If he hits an enemy without killing him instantly, then the whole enemy army should eventually get the plague and die. If you bring living troops along with your commander, they will also get the plague and die. So send him solo, or with undead troops.
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4) I don't know if I solved anything, I was unaware that this was a bug, but based on replies it seems to be some kind of bug. It only happened in this on province that was in the center of a mountain and was accessible by one province only, and there were forts, built by the AI, on both of the connected provinces. My moves seem to work mysteriously once my hiding scout was killed.
5) That might be it, I've learned the hard way to keep my leaders well away from elephants, but the elephants are so kool & strong I luv using 'em
. But yeah, some of my leaders were running up behind them, so I need to keep one leader in command of all the elephants, and make sure he does not have the 'stay behind troops' command? Maybe give him a good long range (35 square) bow like ethereal/banefire crossbow, bow of war, plus the eye of aiming and script him to fire closest?
7) I'm not sure if he was afflicted or injured, he might've been. I should've jotted more details down at the time when it happened.
So I take it though, that this is something that is not normally supposed to happen unless the leader dies or "changes" somehow? such as happens when/with twiceborn, ritual of returning, becoming a troll (some magic item does this)? Rout by itself doesn't seem to cause a leader to lose items (if working correctly), but in some situations they die (and lose items) depending on where they rout to. Would wounding in and of itself cause a leader to lose items (assuming he didn't die, change, or rout)? How about getting wounded & retreating (does he lose items)?
9) Well my paths weren't all researched out. Clicking on the the research overview, F4 or F5 can't remember right off-hand, shows a flatline at the 750 rp mark (it's a helluva lot of research). So, I'm guessing if one has more than 750 research points, say 800, the extra 50 just get wasted?
11 & 13) Great ideas, it never occured to me to do that with the woundflame, undead sneaking troops, awseome
. It did occur to me to give the twin spear to a leader with the wing boots or crane sandals & have the leader move behind the enemy lines and use the spear to create a horror. The problem with this theory is that there's absolutely no control over what the leader does. I had a sc golem with crane sandals and watched the battle movie (gave him orders to attack rear), and he just popped back & forth willy-nilly all over the 4 corners of the battlefield. In fact, he rarely even got near an enemy mage/leader (which was my intent), so this strategy is pretty useless in application because there's not enough control on what your battlefield leaders do, where they go, or who they attack.