Food items don't stack across commanders?

rabelais · #1 December 27th, 2003, 12:10 AM

Hiya.

I have a bunch of wine bags, with the occasional cauldron or summer sword thrown in, but my troops are still starving, contrary to simple arithmetic expectation.

I'm not suprised that the same misc item on the same commander doesn't stack, but I would think that different items on the same commander should, and multiple commanders with similar items definitely should as well.

I have three commanders with one winebag each with aggregate supply <75

In a different province I have a commander with a winebag and a summer sword with aggregate supply again <75.

What exactly are the rules? If only one instance of each food item works per province, then large non-undead armies are impossible.

Is my app bugged? I have the full Version installed, and I don't remember having this problem to a similar degree in earlier games...

Any thoughts? Thanks for all replies.

Rabe

P.S. Do wraith swords have any unpleasant effects on non-undead wielders, or do they make good assasin weapons?

apoger · #2 December 27th, 2003, 01:12 AM

>P.S. Do wraith swords have any unpleasant effects on non-undead wielders, or do they make good assasin weapons?

Bad effects on wielder, no.

Good assassin weapon, sometimes but there are better. Frankly the skull tailisman will work better for most assassinations at less cost/research.

The main use of the Wraith Sword is for the health/reinvigoration gain when used by a large/powerful charater, so he/she can go wading into enemy armies and maintain health/fatigue during extended battles.

mivayan · #3 December 27th, 2003, 02:17 AM

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I have three commanders with one winebag each with aggregate supply <75

I dont fully understand what the problem is... you mean "supplies" is still less than 75? That is normal, the items dont affect the supplies at all, they affect the "supply usage". An army of 75 humans-sized units with 3 wineskins should have a supply usage of around 0. Bring the army to a lab and put one of the wineskins in the lab, you should immidately see the supply usage increase by 25.

Endoperez · #4 December 27th, 2003, 08:55 AM

Commanders want to eat too... And bigger creatures eat more food. Other than that, I have no idea. But it definitely is possible to use many items having the same effect on different commanders, so big armies can be done. But the big army-assasination spells do hurt them... At the worst case, you lose half of your biggest army every round.

rabelais · #5 December 27th, 2003, 05:51 PM

[quote]Originally posted by mivayan:

Quote:

That is normal, the items dont affect the supplies at all, they affect the "supply usage". An army of 75 humans-sized units with 3 wineskins should have a supply usage of around 0.

Oh. That's very different. Is this documented and I missed it?

Off to do some more testing, thanks.

Rabe