gateway

[WraithLord]

I had a very strange happen to me in an MP game I'm in.

One of my provinces was under siege by four devils with imps ( the hordes spell).
Castle Walls were breached.
I had many sages in that province so I figured I'd gateway two arch theurgs with a decent army to counter the devils.

Much to my surprise there wasn't a battle between my theurgs and the devils.
The battle took place inside my castle without the armies the theurgs commanded. Naturally without an army my theurgs and sages got slaughtered.

Now I'm wondering, is that the way the spell is supposed to work? is that a bug? or am I misunderstanding something?

Sorry for the long description...

[Johan K]

Where did the arch theurgs go?

Did they appear outside the walls or did they stay at home? Did they just disappear?

[WraithLord]

At the said province I had sages inside castle.
I cast gateway with A. theurgs commanding an army.

They appeared inside the castle, with the sages but without their army.

I thought that the "magic" phase is prior to troop movement phase and so reckoned that my theurgs would meet the devils outside the castle.

[Graeme Dice]

izaqyos said:
I thought that the "magic" phase is prior to troop movement phase and so reckoned that my theurgs would meet the devils outside the castle.

Troops that move magically into a castle end up inside that castle for all subsequent battles.

[archaeolept]

that's not correct Izaqyos, and, if true, a bug.

however i suspect the possibility of some form of user error - are you sure that the Arch Theurg who cast gateway actually went? that the army was at that time under his command? I'm just thinking that if you teleported in a few arch theurgs you may have confused something - like changing a magic item out of the AT who was to cast gateway, thus invalidating his orders, or some such.

unhappily, since domII doesn't keep any past saves, there's no real way to check

one other thought, the target location didn't have a dome of any sort? nor was there any message about losing an AT (to arrows or disease or whatnot)?

[Yossar]

Where'd the Theurg's army end up?

[Humer]

Are you *absolutely* sure you cast 'Gateway'? The behaviour you described suggests that your Arch Theurg teleported or cloud-trapezed.

Or what archaeolept said: wrong Arch Theurg. One w/ no army.

- Humer