More questions IV

[Corporal Kindel]

More Dom 3 Q&A:

1) Had a leader who ran off of an island, there was a valid 8 (show connected provinces) connection (that’s how I got there to begin with), and he was not wounded. I don’t understand why did he die in the after battle report?

2) Related to the above question, I had a boar leader (sacred) who somehow died in the battle report. Watched the battle movie, I completely destroyed the AI side, the leader was not wounded and he had the moon blade, red dragon scale mail, and the horn of valor. Halfway through the battle he charged the enemy, though the enemy routed before this. He attacked, never got wounded, even up to the last instant before the movie ended. Yeah, I watched up to that point trying to figure why he died, I have no idea?

3) Apparently, the magic item construction queue is limited in size. If you build more items than the queue holds, what happens to the excess items. Are the gems used in construction just lost or what?

4) There was a fortress buried in a mountain only accessible from one adjacent province in which I conquered & had an army. I had a scout in the buried province. For three turns I ordered my troops to move to that province and they never did move there. On the fourth turn, my scout was found & killed, and suddenly my troops were able to move to the province. Is this a bug, or is there something I’m missing here?

5) Have this problem with elephants retreating & killing my leaders, I specifically set my elephants to the south side of the set up area and put all my other troops (especially leaders) way up to the north in the army setup display, but it always seems like when the elephants retreat they go way out of their way to stomp my leaders, what’s the best way to guarantee your leaders safety short of not buying elephants?

6) I had about 100 units get attacked by a single dragon (one of the pretenders). My druid cast stone fall. Why on earth would he cast this in this situation? The spell cast and killed about 20% of my own units and 3 or 4 of my extra leaders.

7) Had a leader that survived a battle, although my side lost, that somehow lost all of his items. Had a unique item & every other spot was filled, but somehow all the items just disappeared. I have no idea why?

8) I had this battle report that says an arrow falls from the sky and pierces heart of leader x, but sometimes x is dead, wounded, or not wounded at all. What’s the cause of this result and how defend against it? (just about every single turn I get this report, I lose three times as many leader to this & stomping elephants than I actually do in battle).

9) Is there a limit to research, I noticed it flatlines at 750, if I have more than this, say 800, what happens to the extra 50rp?

10) I’m wondering why sometimes guys get wounded out of nowhere for no reason. I understand the old age thing, but I had a good leader (the old man in the woods) who suddenly got wounded even though his age was 302(605) thus less than old age. Is this just a completely random thing, or is there some defense against it?

11) Had a leader with the twin spear (casts lesser horror in battle) but it just seemed to cast the lesser horror anywhere regardless, and the horror attacked my own men who were forced to attack it. I don’t understand the point of having this weapon, what good is it if it attacks your own troops? Or, how do you prevent this from happening?

12) Had a leader who got attacked by a lesser horror, he retreated off the map but survived the battle. The next turn I could not find him, think the report said he died, don’t understand why he died when he successfully retreated? The province was not cut off or anything like that.

13) Gave the woundflame sword to one of my guys, he got diseased, and a turn later half my leaders in that province were diseased. What’s the point of using/forging this weapon if it destroys your own guys?

14) Some water moving guys have a movement of 2, like shark riders. I tried to match them with a 2 movement leader but they only go one spot no matter what. Is this a bug or what?

15) Question about encumbrance: I had rainbow armor and boots of youth on a druid: basic encumbrance +3, old age +1, armor +1. This makes melee encumbrance 5 and spell casting encumbrance 6. Under fatigue I had extra reinvigoration 5, why do I have the extra reinvigoration symbol when 6 (spell cast en.) – 5 (extra reinv.) = +1 .. thus still gaining fatigue?

16) All of a sudden some of my guys became soulless, after looking at the army setup screen. I even had a soulless magic leader that I knew was not soulless. I don’t know how/why my guys were converted this way, is it possible that starvation somehow caused this? If not, why?

17) Had a battle report that said armies of kailisia (one of the enemy AI) was routed, some of mine routed too in the course of the battle but not all. I watched the battle movie, and the AI definitely got routed, although strangely, the last two rounds or so, none of my troops successfully hit any of the retreating troops. After clicking “go to province” it was still owned by the kailasia side, I have no idea what happened, is this a bug or something else I'm missing?