-InsertName- died retreating into enemy territory!

[Sarvoth]

MaxWilson said:


Seems to me the real problem is figuring out why your guys routed. You said you were holding the gate, which means the enemy was trying to storm the castle and you were the defender, so the 50-turn limit was on the enemy, not you. Once 75% of the army is destroyed, the non-mindless and non-berserk units auto-route, so it's possible that you'd raised enough skeletons to outnumber your whole army by a factor of 4 or so and then when they all died, everybody routed.

After I 'won' the battle, I actually had very few casualties. Only about 100 or so chaff and a couple dozen (roughly) wraiths. So it must have been the turn limit that routed my pretender and casters.

I guess I will have to stick with the back door option, or win faster. Mostly I used this strategy for flavor, I really enjoy playing MA Ermor (undead*); and raising vast hordes of the undead from my capital fortress to suddenly overrun the world is just fun :-). Is the turn-route feature moddable?

Thanks for all the replies.

[MaxWilson]

But you also said you were summoning tons of undead during the battle, presumably with Raise Skeleton and Raise Dead. I'm 80% sure killed skellies and zombies still count toward the 75% limit, so theoretically if you had 1000 units, then you summoned another 3000 skeletons during the course of the battle, and LA Man killed all those skeletons, your army would auto-rout because 75% casualties had been taken. I don't know how plausible it is that your guys would have summoned 3000 skeletons, though.

The turn route feature is not moddable. Modding is focused on altering unit/nation/spell stats, not changing the basic rules of the game.

You can still go with the vast hordes of undead if you like; just cast Rigor Mortis at the start of the battle and it should all work just fine. Your undead hordes are immune to it, but Man's troops should quickly fatigue into unconsciousness so your troops can slaughter them, and once they hit 200 fatigue they start taking physical damage instead of fatigue (although of course since they're unconscious they also recover 5 fatigue per round too). They should all be dead well before the auto-route limit.

-Max

[Sarvoth]

Thanks for your help Max, I had never given Rigor Mortis a second glance.