Couple of questions about The Ankh / Life After Death

[Curious Yellow]

I'm trying to manage a major fort battle as the defender, and I have the Ankh - want to figure out what's going to happen.

First of all, will it even work if I don't have enchantment 7 researched for Life after Death? I understand some item spells require you to have researched the actual spell for them to work.

Say one of my mages dies during the battle, and is brought back as a soulless mage - will he continue executing his script? Or is it like a new unit arriving on the battlefield?

[Gregstrom]

1. Yes, it'll work. Item spells do not require you to have the spell in question researched. The items are cleverer than your mages are.

2. Err... probably. I couldn't say for sure, though.

[thejeff]

1) There were a couple of items bugged that way. I believe those have been fixed. The Gatestone is the one that I remember.

2) Works like any other in battle forced transformation, I assume. I know I've seen mage thugs continue to attack rather than default to "Cast Spells".

[chrispedersen]

I have scripted mages with magic duel x 2
they continued to execute the script after LAd