Some newbie questions from an always newbie player

[Hakko]

Here's another newbie question while we're at it:

Do capital provinces ever have magic sites beyond the race specific ones? E.g., if I cast AR on Abysia after I've captured is there a chance of there being anything apart from the Smoulder Cone?

[DeathDaemon]

Capitals do not have magic sites in addition to those of the nation/theme. I believe the only troop available for other nations is the hydra hatching.

[Taqwus]

Random events can cause certain non-hidden sites to appear, notably ore mines and, IIRC, some sort of money-granting alchemist's device, but I've not yet heard of a hidden site appearing. There won't be a hidden site there at the beginning of the game unless the map file specifically puts one there.

[Chazar]

DeathDaemon said:
I believe the only troop available for other nations is the hydra hatching.

The Keep of Dark Forest Ulm allows the production of Ghoul Guardians to foreign posessors. I think somone mentioned more national captial sites which allow troop production to foreigners, but I thought these were all considered to be bugs...

[Kristoffer O]

That is a bug.

[Chazar]

Since a few other fixed bugs resurfaced, I think i should also mention this:

A foreigner can still recruit ghoul guardians in V2.14, although the Version history says that this one had been corrected.

However, the game that I am referring to was started ith V2.12, so it might be fixed now.

[DeathDaemon]

After reading your first response about GGs, I immediately made a test game and confirmed that another nation can recruit them after taking ulm.

[Chazar]

Thanks for testing! So the bug is still there, although it should have been fixed for Version > 2.14 according to the Version history