Strange Message??

[Ranger]

I keep seeing the message "Our units have felt the great lure of the sea - 4 units died" What the heck!!

How do I find out
Where did this happen? There is no goto message
What units died ?
What type of units?
I can I prevent this?

Someone has cast Lure of the Deep.

It's a Level 7 Thaumaturgy Ritual, 6 Water, costs 70 Water Gems.

You have to dispel it or kill the caster of the spell.

[Argitoth]

An enemy has casted Lure of the Deep (Global Enchantment).

To prevent the enemy casting this spell on you, keep your units 1 province away from a sea province, meaning, don't put any units in a province touching the sea.

You can lookup the spell on page 119 of the Dominions 2 manual.

Edit: You beat me, Zen!

[ February 06, 2004, 22:33: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Argitoth:
An enemy has casted Lure of the Deep (Global Enchantment).

To prevent the enemy casting this spell on you, keep your units 1 province away from a sea province, meaning, don't put any units in a province touching the sea.

Correction: You cannot "prevent the enemy from casting this spell". But keeping your units 1 province inland from seas will prevent losing units to the spell. You are immune to the effects of this spell in a coastal province if that coastal province has positive (ie, your) dominion in it.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
You are immune to the effects of this spell in a coastal province if that coastal province has positive (ie, your) dominion in it.

While the game says this is true in the spell description, I don't think it actually is entirely true, because I've gotten the message saying units have died, when I know that all provinces I have units in are within my Dominion: Pretty hard for Ermor to outrun its own Dominion with a strength of 10.

[ February 07, 2004, 01:17: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
While the game says this is true in the spell description, I don't think it actually is entirely true, because I've gotten the message saying units have died, when I know that all provinces I have units in are within my Dominion: Pretty hard for Ermor to outrun its own Dominion with a strength of 10.

Have you reported this as a bug?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
Have you reported this as a bug?

I haven't reported this yet because I haven't had the opportunity to reproduce it yet, so it's currently still unconfirmed. But it seemed to be happening that way.

[ February 07, 2004, 03:23: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

[IKerensky]

Being Ermor perhaps it was a bunch of Random Event cultist you got and forget about ?