About battle replays

[Herode]

In a solo game, I have some strange results for a battle that occured in a province with PD + 1 commander (a Golem SC Prophet).

The messages tell me that I lost the battle (and my prophet).
The replay shows :
- my armies (the PD) being routed at some stage during the battle, and they rout indeed as expected
- the prophet does not rout (morale 50) and easily kills all hundreds of ennemy units as an honest SC does.

Nevertheless, the ennemy now has control of the province & my SC has vanished.

Is it a known bug, or an undocumented feature ?

[llamabeast]

It's a feature

[archaeolept]

mindless units can't retreat, and are eliminated if they should have retreated. It's in the manual somewhere.

mostly the issue just comes up w/ Golem SCs

[llamabeast]

I think the issue is more that the battle replay didn't match the battle outcome.

This has been reported before. It's a bit annoying.

If anyone happens to have the files from a preceding turn, so that this bug can be reproduced, it might be a good idea to send them to JK. If this happens to anyone in a LlamaServer game PM me and I'll be able to find the files (LlamaServer has full backups).

[thejeff]

But that's not the problem. He's got the battle replay doesn't match results bug.
The replay shows his SC killing off the enemy.

Herode, I assume you mean the replay ends with all the enemy gone, either dead or fled, and your golem still on the field?


Edit: And the Llama says the same thing while I'm typing

[Edratman]

llamabeast, I've had the same thing happen, very rarely, but it has happened. Once about a week or so ago.

But anyway, how do I save the battle replays to send?

[llamabeast]

Well the trouble is you have to know it's going to happen. You need all the files from the previous turn - the fthrlnd file, all the trn files (I think) and all the 2h files (definitely). By the time you get the issue, unless you're continually keeping backups then most of those files will have been overwritten.

[Edratman]

Thanks.

Door #1:
It doesn't happen very often. I can live with it.

Door#2:
Wow, sounds like a lot of effort.


And the winner is:

Door #1

[llamabeast]

You got a goat!

[llamabeast]

Seriously though, no problem, few if any people would keep backups for SP games unless they had an automated system. If anyone notices this problem on a LlamaServer game though, that would be helpful.