gateway

[Humer]

Are you *absolutely* sure you cast 'Gateway'? The behaviour you described suggests that your Arch Theurg teleported or cloud-trapezed.

Or what archaeolept said: wrong Arch Theurg. One w/ no army.

- Humer

[WraithLord]

My A. theurgs didn't teleport or cloud trapeze. Positively sure about that. I paid 10 astral gems each, for the pleasure of GW.

There were no domes either.

The Army they commanded vanished. Simply ceased to exist. I checked that turn's Messages very carefully. There was no message explaining what might have happened to that army, no battle no artillery spell or such.

A mistake such as changing items didn't happen since I am double checking for such mistakes.
Even had I not double checked I'm sure there was no such mistake, simply because previous turn my Arch thuergs weren't in the target province and next turn they were there in the castle (without army).

How I wish there was some way to get that turn's file…
(When a game is hosted on a server, turn files are sent to the clients aren't they? )

...

I did get the answer I wanted though.
I didn't misunderstand the GW spell.
Either I made a mistake or there's a bug.
It makes no matter either way since I don't have the turn file for further investigation.

[Cohen]

Mmmm if there're many archtheurgs and they're named in the same way, perhaps you've messed up.
I gateway many times and always the army followed the commander, but this was til 2.12. After I don't recall any use of mine of gateway.

[archaeolept]

if your army simply dissappeared that really seems like a bug.

one of the problems in your description however is that you keep saying "The Army they commanded" and similar phrasings. Armies are only commanded by single commanders. And why would you use gateway on your other arch theurgs? Unless what you are saying is that each of your arch theurgs was commanding a squad of troops and each used gateway and each of their squads disappeared w/out a trace...

[WraithLord]

archaeolept said:
if your army simply dissappeared that really seems like a bug.

one of the problems in your description however is that you keep saying "The Army they commanded" and similar phrasings. Armies are only commanded by single commanders. And why would you use gateway on your other arch theurgs? Unless what you are saying is that each of your arch theurgs was commanding a squad of troops and each used gateway and each of their squads disappeared w/out a trace...

Perhaps I was a bit unclear. For sure armies are commanded by single commanders. I assumed what I was saying was clear enough.

I had two A. theurgs. Each commanded an army and each was located at a different province of mine. I gated both of them to same said province and their armies/squads/troops disappeared w/out a trace.
One of them commanded some gladiators, a squad for each of the two types, and a squad of principies (IIRC the name). Second commanded one squad of gladiators.

I use GW a lot in SP and MP games. First time I encountered something like that. If it's a bug it sure is extremely rare.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Repeating Yossar's question: Check the province(s) your Arch Theurgs were in before Gateway-ing. If the troops aren't there either then you have a real problem.

[archaeolept]

no, it seems clear that the armies dissappeared. i would think this is definitely a bug. Gladiators i could see dissappearing, since that's what they're best at , but not principe.