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Old August 14th, 2008, 04:24 AM

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How do you find out where the 'Home Province' for a Commander is?

For a regular unit, that info is displayed at the top of their stat/info screen, but for a Commander that same info isn't displayed. Is it hiding somewhere else which I haven't noticed, or is it just not available?

Reason I ask is that in a game I'm playing I've got a wandering site searching Naiad which I summoned, but I can't remember where I summoned her to send her home to recover.

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Old August 14th, 2008, 04:38 AM
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Default Re: Question about Home Province.

My information says that there's no good way to know a commander's home province. It's apparently one of the more irritating features of the User Interface. It would be great if there were a screen that displayed recent force aquisitions, like from the past 3 turns, and where they're currently stationed, but that magic screen so far only lives inside Johan's brain, and he's not letting it out until he's good and ready.
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Default Re: Question about Home Province.

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Reason I ask is that in a game I'm playing I've got a wandering site searching Naiad which I summoned, but I can't remember where I summoned her to send her home to recover.
No way to identify the home province of a commander, but when she's down to 3 hitpoints cast Transformation and if you're lucky she'll remain alive with some other type of form.

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Old August 15th, 2008, 07:13 PM
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She'll almost definitely lose the most valuable of her slots and that's really bad.
The real answer is: always remember what you're doing and always save the turn you're submitting.
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Default Re: Question about Home Province.

Is it an MP game? If so do you have any of your old files tucked away to find out where she came from?
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Default Re: Question about Home Province.

Thanks for all the replies.

Find it slightly annoying that a commander's home province isn't displayed anywhere. Since it's not exactly info that should be kept secret is it? Guess I'll have to get used to using some tactical re-naming from now on.

Not too concerned about the Naiad in question. She's had a good run, and found a few nice sites, so no complaints :-) Wonder if I'll get a message when she dies? Would try my luck at transforming her, but haven't got the research done for that spell yet. And sadly it's a server game, so no useful past turn files to trace her place of birth/creation. (think that's a definite place where PBEM games get one up on server games. Although that shouldn't be seen as a trigger to start a debate on the subject!)
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Old August 18th, 2008, 08:09 AM
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Default Re: Question about Home Province.

You won't get a message when she dies.

As for the server game, there's really no problem in saving your turns to another folder just before submitting. I always did so when I played server game. However, I also like PBEM much more.
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