I'm very confused as to how and why I lost a

archaeolept · #1 September 21st, 2004, 10:11 PM

what was buggy about it? other than the earth mother and wraithlord should have collapsed from the CW fatigue attacks no question..

but you say the army routed. did all the commanders die? did all the non-commander units die?

and you lost the entire army - was there nowhere to retreat to?

were any strange battlefield spells cast?

Cainehill · #2 September 21st, 2004, 11:30 PM

18 commanders - did any of them have death magic? If it was a bunch of researchers w/o any death magic (for instance, 18 dryads) then the carrion would dissolve / rout for lack of leadership. At that point, the commanders should rout after 1 died (but not always).

If you had death magic leaders, then the carrion should never rout, which is why I suspect you had researchers or some such with no death magic.

Nappa · #3 September 21st, 2004, 11:49 PM

Not one commander died. It looks like the vast majority of my army got stuck at the castle gates even though there was plenty of room to get through.

Also, I had several elephants and misc carrion attacking the earth mother and she never took damage even though she always had fatige of 200.

Nappa · #4 September 21st, 2004, 11:50 PM

I owned most of the territory around the battle so they should not have died by routing.

All 18 commanders where either carrion lords or Pan.

Ygorl · #5 September 22nd, 2004, 12:22 AM

Is your client Dominions the same Version as the server?

Cainehill · #6 September 22nd, 2004, 01:40 AM

Ah - so you were attacking? My guess is that you may be right, the army got stuck in the gates while trying to clobber the earth mother.

Because the earth mother regenerates, she wouldn't seem to be taking any damage, since the most carrion tend not to do much damage.

And then, turn 50 of the battle, the attacker automatically routs.

Either that - or you're watching a battle replay with the wrong Version, but I'm guessing you might be playing SP, so that wouldn't be it.

Nappa · #7 September 22nd, 2004, 03:26 PM

It was a SP game. So this is a known bug?

I checked all the monsters in the area and they did not have fatige and no spells were cast on them. They just seemed to get stuck near the defenders side of the gate. Then my entire army got backed up and only a few creatures were able to attack the earth mother.

If this happened to me in a MP game I'd be pissed as my game would be over.