Lies My Rulebook Told Me

[MaxWilson]

Repel forces a Morale roll *IF* you hit in the normal repel mechanic. "Mindless == automatically take 1 HP damage" is something else entirely.

-Max

[JimMorrison]

Oh right, I forgot that part of the earlier posts. I'm curious how this affects units like Lobo Guard in prolonged melee. I don't use them a lot, but I hadn't noticed them whittling themselves down, when I do.

[Micah]

If anyone that posts an addition could include the page number that'd be awesome, I'll go back and edit them in once I get a decent batch. And feel free to add this in wherever, I was hoping for some sort of stickiness, even if it's under the general FAQ. =)

Please post some files if you've got contradictory assertions as well, it'd help to get everything sorted out.

[MaxWilson]

My correction about regen percentage and afflictions comes from an in-game tip, not the rulebook, actually. I don't know if in-game tip corrections should be in a separate thread--your call, Micah.

-Max

[Lingchih]

Yes, this should be stickied. There is some really good, useful info in this post

[Endoperez]

MaxWilson said:
Repel forces a Morale roll *IF* you hit in the normal repel mechanic. "Mindless == automatically take 1 HP damage" is something else entirely.

I didn't know it either, but the log file indicated it pretty clearly. No random rolls or anything, just something like "repell negated by mindlessness" and hordes of Dragonflies dying. I tested it by making dragonflies non-mindless, and as I said, they could actually hurt the Arch Devil.

[llamabeast]

I didn't quite follow what you said about dragonflies and critical hits, but it's worth bearing in mind that the dragonfly bite is AN.

[Ninave]

Micah said:
Research does not grant experience (beyond the base 1 that everyone gets). p58

I had to test this. So with R'lyeh I now have Polypal Queen pretender with 2 experience stars. She hasn't done anything else than researched from turn 1. It is now Summer in the year 5. I can never seem to be able to see the turn number on resolution, it goes by so quickly.

As a side note, I have Polypal Mother, who has been preaching 5 turns less and nothing else and has 2 stars.

[few turns later]
On turn 5 I got the national hero Auluudh and put him straight to research. Now (early fall year 5) he has 2 stars of experience. I think I'll try to get them to the hall of fame.

So, that point listed is incorrect.

[Sombre]

Don't they automatically get 1 exp per turn regardless?

[thejeff]

I think that's the point. They get 1 exp/turn, but the manual implies they get more. I don't have the book in front of me, so I can't check p58.