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Old November 10th, 2006, 02:40 AM

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Glamorous units can never be observed while in friendly territory, no matter how you look.
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Old November 11th, 2006, 12:10 AM
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Glamorous units can never be observed while in friendly territory, no matter how you look.
What about when they are commanded by unstealthy commander? Would they be they still invisible to scouts?
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Old November 11th, 2006, 12:54 AM
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What about when they are commanded by unstealthy commander? Would they be they still invisible to scouts?
The easiest answer to this question is to re-read his response. The answer is the same, with absolutely no qualifiers. You can never, under any circumstances, see units with glamour. It does not matter one bit whether they are hiding, sneaking, defending, patrolling, or any other order. They are completely invisible on the strategic map. Stealthy units that are hiding in friendly provinces are just as invisible.
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IOW (In Other Words) : You might see their non-stealthy commander, but you won't see the glamorous troops. Kind of the opposite of glamorous individuals.
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Old November 11th, 2006, 09:50 AM
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What about when they are commanded by unstealthy commander? Would they be they still invisible to scouts?
The easiest answer to this question is to re-read his response. The answer is the same, with absolutely no qualifiers. You can never, under any circumstances, see units with glamour. It does not matter one bit whether they are hiding, sneaking, defending, patrolling, or any other order. They are completely invisible on the strategic map. Stealthy units that are hiding in friendly provinces are just as invisible.
Interesting. So commander with glamour AND with stealth, such as Van, can build castle, search, preach, do whatever he wants without being observed by the enemy. Effectively castles will pop out of nowhere as far as your opponent concerned (unlike when you are building castle with scout, who becomes visible while he is performing "build" command.)

It's good to know, thanks.
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Old November 11th, 2006, 01:36 PM
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Interesting. So commander with glamour AND with stealth
There are no commanders with Glamour but without Stealth. Glamour gives a unit/commander an automatic Stealth +25, as well as the Glamour advantage of being unseen in friendly provinces.
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Old November 11th, 2006, 02:43 PM
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Interesting. So commander with glamour AND with stealth
There are no commanders with Glamour but without Stealth. Glamour gives a unit/commander an automatic Stealth +25, as well as the Glamour advantage of being unseen in friendly provinces.
Right, but my point is that such combo gives you ability to build castle while not being detected by enemy, based upon what people said in this thread. In competitive MP games people have a lot of scouts, and if you see the single enemy commander hanging around certain province for several turns, you know that there is a good chance he is building a castle there. And such privince is a good candidate for the attack with remote summon or whatever you have.
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Old November 11th, 2006, 02:47 PM
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Speaking of which I have another question. Let's say you are bulding scouts in certain province each turn. If your opponent have a scout of his own in that province, will the enemy scout detect your scout for the first turn in with is was build?

In other words, are scouts visible to enemy for the first turn in which they were created, or they are "hidden" from the very begining?
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Interesting. So commander with glamour AND with stealth
There are no commanders with Glamour but without Stealth. Glamour gives a unit/commander an automatic Stealth +25, as well as the Glamour advantage of being unseen in friendly provinces.
I thought Glamour only gave +25 Stealth if the unit already had Stealth. One of Bogus' group has Glamour, for instance, and I don't think any have stealth (but I could have overlooked that as it doesn't come into play). Similarly, the Gnomes recruitable from some rare site have glamour, but might not be stealthy. And I think the mercenary Air mage has Glamour (hmm... it might've been that he just cast Mirror Image).
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