Insanity Questions

[Master Shake]

1. Does Enslave Mind work on the insane?

2. Is insanity reversible - by time in friendly dominion, or by Gift of Health?

[Taqwus]

Yes (pretty sure, anyway) and no, in that order.

[Reay]

Does insanity have any effect on non-commander units?

[Taqwus]

If there is one, it's subtle. Assuming you don't GoR it, anyway. Haven't noticed freakish combat behavior for instance even with swarms of frequently insane dreamers.

Assuming you mean direct effects -- the units assigned to an insane commander can't be reassigned unless the commander is lucid that turn, if memory serves.

[Corwin]

Taqwus said:
If there is one, it's subtle. Assuming you don't GoR it, anyway. Haven't noticed freakish combat behavior for instance even with swarms of frequently insane dreamers.

Assuming you mean direct effects -- the units assigned to an insane commander can't be reassigned unless the commander is lucid that turn, if memory serves.

Actually they can be reassigned.

And yes, as Taqwus said, insanity has no noticable effect on the non-commander units.

[jutetrea]

Is it a definite that nothing can remove insanity? Even wish?

[Theonlystd]

Corwin said:

Actually they can be reassigned.

And yes, as Taqwus said, insanity has no noticable effect on the non-commander units.

yea can be reassigned just bring lots of extra commanders

[NTJedi]

jutetrea said:
Is it a definite that nothing can remove insanity? Even wish?

correct

[Aleph]

Something kind of interesting, if you've never been on the receiving end of crazy before - insane Rl'yeh commanders do random, usually non-helpful things, like calling their god back from the dead when the god is not in fact dead, preaching when they have no holy stat, researching with no magic stat, etc. But they do also declare themselves prophets, regardless of how many prophets you already have. This is highly useful. And sometimes the holy guys will preach and the mages will research - not necessarily what you want from them, but not so bad.

On the other hand, if you're not Rl'yeh and you go crazy, I've never seen a commander do anything useful during a crazy turn. They say interesting things like "that's no star" and "Hear my dreams of Rl'yeh", which I assume are just totally wasted turns.

So, even if crazy is bothering you as it spreads through your ranks of freespawn commanders, slave mages, and summoned Naiads, it's much, much worse for others.

[Fate]

You should keep an eye out for recently awake insane commanders. They will continue their insane actions if you don't reassign them (and unless they were insanely defending, which I haven't seen yet, they won't come up on the 'N' cue).