Commanders randomly dying?

HJ · #1 December 14th, 2003, 11:56 PM

There are a number of fatigue-causing spells, such as dessication, anything that causes "sleep", some paralysis sources, going berserk, etc. If it wasn't a cold aura, I would check whether something of that sort was cast during the battle, or if he cast "sabbath slave" earlier.

sfsuphysics · #2 December 15th, 2003, 01:06 AM

Well, I was attacking a neutral province, fairly early in the game, all my units are "heaters". My mages do go over 100 without zonking out, without having any special cast/items (I can post a picture if you don't believe me). There weren't any special spells cast at me, because the only spell the enemy cast was bless (a couple random priests).

*sigh* who knows, I think I'll stop playing until the patch comes out, then I can hopefully retweak the existing magic system (atleast I hope that is possible, and in the confines of "modding")

sfsuphysics · #3 December 15th, 2003, 01:12 AM

Hmm, having looked at it again, it seems that they do go over 100, and get to the point where they lose 5 fatigue/rd or whatever, but don't go unconscious because of it (maybe my magic in the domain setting was pumped up?). And I got a right click in and he did go to 200 fatigue, but then dropped right back down to 191, but continued to get hurt because of it. *sigh*

HJ · #4 December 15th, 2003, 01:42 AM

Did he cast communion or sabbath slave? Were there any water 2 mages or ice devils around him? Any other spells that could have caused it to happen? If you still have the replay, you could go over spell by spell and look up each of them in the manual to see what they do, and find the guilty party.
Also, did any of the mages have anything like rime hauberk or some other item equipped that radiates area effects? Did he go berserk at some point?

[ December 14, 2003, 23:57: Message edited by: HJ ]

sfsuphysics · #5 December 15th, 2003, 02:49 AM

The only thing he cast was fire shield & falling fires twice. The enemy cast unholy protection a few times, but none of those characters got anywhere near him. The other two guys cast a few banishments, solar rays, fireballs but all the enemy was way far away. He just stood there after a while not casting a thing but his fatigue kept going up. The only thing I changed was I gave him a barkskin amulet right before battle to "help protect him" a lot good that did!.

HJ · #6 December 15th, 2003, 02:54 AM

Any frost fiends or ice devils in the battle?

sfsuphysics · #7 December 15th, 2003, 04:45 AM

No frost fiends, nor ice devils in the battle, not on my side, not on the enemy's side