Pythium problems - communion&gladiators

[Raspi]

Hi, I'm a new player to dom 2, have played some dom 1 and now I'm back for more.

I decided to try the Pythium nation in an upcoming pbem, and I have 2 problems with them.

1. My communion isn't working, I have theurgs and arch theurgs casting communion master, and also many communicants. 4-5 theurgs, 20~ communicants. The problem is that none of my casters are getting their casting levels raised, the communicants do soak in the fatigue and receive all the enchantments cast by the masters, but the caster levels stay as they are. What am I doing wrong?

2. I noticed a weird problem with gladiators. Sometimes when I buy a batch of them, they don't show up at all. There is 0 unrest in the province, and tons of resources to spare. Scales are growth 3 production 3, and dominion strenght 6.
This problem only occurs with gladiators, all the other troops are produced normally. I don't get the money back either.

I'm using the Version 2.13, I hope its me doing something wrong, and not a bug. Any help is apprecetiated.

[Graeme Dice]

Raspi said:
1. My communion isn't working, I have theurgs and arch theurgs casting communion master, and also many communicants. 4-5 theurgs, 20~ communicants. The problem is that none of my casters are getting their casting levels raised, the communicants do soak in the fatigue and receive all the enchantments cast by the masters, but the caster levels stay as they are. What am I doing wrong?

Nothing's wrong. The boost to mage levels from communion doesn't show up on the screen.

[tinkthank]

Raspi said:
2. I noticed a weird problem with gladiators. Sometimes when I buy a batch of them, they don't show up at all. There is 0 unrest in the province, and tons of resources to spare. Scales are growth 3 production 3, and dominion strenght 6.
This problem only occurs with gladiators, all the other troops are produced normally. I don't get the money back either.

I'm using the Version 2.13, I hope its me doing something wrong, and not a bug. Any help is apprecetiated.

Thats weird. Maybe send the files to Illwinter??

[Peter Ebbesen]

Raspi said:
2. I noticed a weird problem with gladiators. Sometimes when I buy a batch of them, they don't show up at all. There is 0 unrest in the province, and tons of resources to spare. Scales are growth 3 production 3, and dominion strenght 6.
This problem only occurs with gladiators, all the other troops are produced normally. I don't get the money back either.

Gladiators (and only gladiators) disappear after one battle, but it does not seem as if that is what is going on here, unless the province you hire them in is attacked immediately after the recruitment.

[tinkthank]

Peter Ebbesen said:

Gladiators (and only gladiators) disappear after one battle, but it does not seem as if that is what is going on here, unless the province you hire them in is attacked immediately after the recruitment.

I thought about that the first time, but it CANT be the case since you can ONLY recruit gladiators in a Fort, and even if the prov is attacked immediately, the Glads wont participate in battle, since they will be inside the fort.
Sounds like something weird is going on.

[The_Tauren13]

I dont think it works that way.. i once had 50 gladiators or so sitting in my capitol, an AI did call of the winds, lost his black hawks to the 25 PD, and the gladiators who didnt even fight the battle, dissapeared.