Armor of Virtue not working?

[Meursy]

In my recent game, the guy who's wearing armor of virtue did not teleport back to home province when hurt. He was not killed in the battle so that cannot be a reason. Also he did not have that blue returning ritual symbol. Is it a known bug since 3.17?

[DonCorazon]

now that you mention it, I think I may have had the same issue. At one point, anyone who donned the armor for a full turn would have the returning icon, even if he later took off the armor. Then it seemed to stop working but I'll have to go back and check.

[Micah]

were you holding still on the first turn of the battle? There's some weird AE thing that the armor uses to slap the returning on your unit that seems to get messed up if you move off your starting square on turn 1. At least from what I remember (nothing from the current patch)

[MaxWilson]

Did he cast any buffs? Some buffs (Ironskin, Iron Will) sometimes remove bless effects from Armor of Virtue/Shroud. It's possible, if unlikely, that they remove returning as well. Was the icon gone at the beginning of battle or did it vanish partway throgh?

-Max

[Meursy]

Micah said:
were you holding still on the first turn of the battle? There's some weird AE thing that the armor uses to slap the returning on your unit that seems to get messed up if you move off your starting square on turn 1. At least from what I remember (nothing from the current patch)

You are absolutely right. He needs to hold on turn 1, then it works.

Now another bug, if he has ritual of returning up, you can take off the armor and still keeps the ritual. In fact you can give the armor to another commander for him to enjoy ritual of returning.

[archaeolept]

^^ yeah, that's been around forever.

In this case, I would consider it a feature

[chrispedersen]

well, its got a few other features, as I reported in the bug list discussion.

Take a look at that discussion.