Indie Battle Question

Altus · #1 November 19th, 2003, 05:18 AM

My troops are about to win an independent battle. The Last routed enemy troop leaves the field and there's a sound effect, like a mindbLast, and one of my troops goes poof. There's no mention of a spell being cast and there are no enemies to be seen on the field, battle ends. This has happened twice. Once to a unit who was chasing the Last enemy off the field and now to a casting Commander far to the rear of the enemy rout. She was a standard Machaka Witch Doctor who had just earned her first medal, full health with no diseases or afflictions. Can anyone clue me in to the cause of this? I have screenshots of the battle's end if it would help. Thanks in advance.

Chris Byler · #2 November 19th, 2003, 07:18 AM

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Originally posted by Altus:
My troops are about to win an independent battle. The Last routed enemy troop leaves the field and there's a sound effect, like a mindbLast, and one of my troops goes poof. There's no mention of a spell being cast and there are no enemies to be seen on the field, battle ends. This has happened twice. Once to a unit who was chasing the Last enemy off the field and now to a casting Commander far to the rear of the enemy rout. She was a standard Machaka Witch Doctor who had just earned her first medal, full health with no diseases or afflictions. Can anyone clue me in to the cause of this? I have screenshots of the battle's end if it would help. Thanks in advance.

The only things I can think of are poison or decay. At the end of a battle (or when a unit retreats) those effects run to completion (which, in the case of decay, is invariably fatal to non-lifeless non-undead - that reminds me, do bane blades work on demons now?). But there may be other similar effects that get "fast forwarded" at the end of a battle.

I might be able to tell you more if I had the battle replay - do you still have the .trn file that has the replay in it?

Altus · #3 November 19th, 2003, 08:58 AM

Thanks for the reply, Chris. I didn't save the turn file unfortunately. There was no indication of her being spelled on her character stats just prior to her going poof within the battle animation. The only thing I can think of is that she was lost due to supply loss in the conquered province, if that is normal. Does a unit go from full health, no prior starvation or disease, to eradication at the end of a battle animation due to low supplies in the newly annexed province? If so, I didn't realize the attrition factor was that immediate. I thought they went through a starved turn before being lost.

Nagot Gick Fel · #4 November 19th, 2003, 10:09 AM

Leaders consume supplies, but never starve.

HJ · #5 November 19th, 2003, 03:15 PM

I think that something like this can also happen through fatigue overload due to the heat/chill auras. It would make less sense for that chasing unit than it would for the caster, though. Also, aren't there spells that also overload fatigue over time, but don't show any animation at the same time?

Dekent · #6 November 19th, 2003, 06:19 PM

I had a similiar experience too...

One of my favored generals got caught up in a minor skirmish..she was my prophet and gift of health and a strong dominion were running..so she had close to 80 hp and rather buffed up stats all around..

I watched the battle closely...it was mostly a bunch of miltia and a few border patrol troops against 60 or so undead. Being ulm my side crushed them rather quickly but right as it said they lost, my commander dropped dead..and I swear NOTHING touched her the entire battle as I was keeping tabs....watched the replay again and I still didn't see anything hit her.....all she casted was a few banishes to boot. Course I got pissed after this and restarted ;p

It also happened after ermors commanders took off, and she was full health....so no clue what happened.