A newbie question

[Molog]

lillumultipass said:
but I don't understant, what do u mean by scripts???

Orders for your troops to follow. Press t when you have an army selected.

[lillumultipass]

Thx Alneyan and Molog!
If I build a new lab (I only got one for the moment) can I use the gems from the other lab??? I mean, are gems automatically transferable??? And who creates lab??? I suppose magicians. Ah, and how do I give gems to my commanders???
As to Magic sites, Angerboda the Great Hag just came, and he is a A3 D3 N2 B3 magician so I guess he will be my "site searcher"; but he's has 13 pts of research also...

[Arralen]

lillumultipass said:
Thx Alneyan and Molog!
If I build a new lab (I only got one for the moment) can I use the gems from the other lab??? I mean, are gems automatically transferable??? And who creates lab??? I suppose magicians. Ah, and how do I give gems to my commanders???

Labs share a collective gem and item treasury.
With the current Version of Dom2 (not shure about the Demo - you're playing the Demo, aren't you?) there are multiple way to access the lab and the treasury.
At first try selecting the province, then leftclicking on the "laboratory" tab or use "l", or F5..8 (some of these may not work with the demo, though)
You'll get to the "magic ressources treasury" somehow. Click on "transfer gems to commanders". You may select the target commander by left-clicking on the commander shown at the top.
Or you may select the commander on the strategic map first, open his inventory (right-click) and left-click on the long tab on the right.

As to Magic sites, Angerboda the Great Hag just came, and he is a A3 D3 N2 B3 magician so I guess he will be my "site searcher"; but he's has 13 pts of research also...

SHE .. you better get that right. I meant, you're a Pretender, but not her real god, yet.

Yes, in the beginning she is a quite good sitesearcher. You should see to have a province searched within 3 turns after conquering it. Unless you have enough gems already, and/or you're only some turns away from getting the sitesearching spells and/or the appropiate commander to cast them.

hope this is helpful
A.

[Arralen]

Molog said:
scripts?

Orders for your troops to follow. Press t when you have an army selected.

To be more precise: You select provinces, in some of which happens to be an army of yours.

And there are orders for the squads and for commanders seperatly.

By pressing "t" you get to the army setup screen. Next to the green minimaps there are the orders. Squads can only have one order (leftclick on the "click here to set battle orders"), commanders can have 5 single-turn orders (those above the line) and a following 'general' order.
e.g. (hold)(hold)attack nearest or (fireball)(fireball)(fireball)(fireball)(fireball) cast spells

[Alneyan]

Any spellcaster is able to create a lab, and your Pretender might be able to do so even without any kind of magic path (that would be helpful to avoid the "losing your laboratory on turn 2 while you have no spellcaster available" symptom).

Gems (and magical items incidentally) are available in any laboratory of your Empire, and are "teleported" where they are needed.

To transfer magic gems, you have two solutions:
- Either go to the Laboraty of the correct province, then to Magic resources, and then to Transfert Gems to Commanders.
- Or more simply double click on the "personnal gems" part of your Commander's inventory. If you want to give them magical items, a double click on the rest of their inventory directly brings you to your magical item storage.

In both cases, your Commander needs to be in a province with a laboratory; you will only be able to transfer gems and magical items between commanders otherwise.

[Arralen]

Alneyan said:
In both cases, your Commander needs to be in a province with a laboratory; you will only be able to transfer gems and magical items between commanders otherwise.

This a major tactic for carrying supply items (work for the whole province, even if on a sneaking unit) and for ferrying gems to mages at the frontline.
You may 'deposit' some gems on one of the sneaking food carriers, so the mages don't use them all up in one turn. (They are much less prone to this with the latest Versions of Dom2, though)
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