Questions For Kailasa Gurus

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by Gregstrom

3) I vaguely recall JK once saying that to have a chance to reincarnate as a higher form they need to have lived virtuous lives - no fighting, for example.

Well, that's enough to make me not care.

Seriously, how many units do you have die without fighting? This is a war game...

[Gregstrom]

Originally Posted by Squirrelloid

Well, that's enough to make me not care.

Seriously, how many units do you have die without fighting? This is a war game...

No-one ever said it was a great ability :P

How many units have I had die without fighting? Well, there's all those researchers I lost to armageddon-spam...

I would hazard a guess that game-mechanism wise it could be linked to kill count.

Short answer to OP's questions is: Don't bother trying to turn reincarnation into a strategy.

[sector24]

Totally unrelated to the game, but in Hindu mythology the caste determines what actions are virtuous. For a Kshatriya (warrior caste), it is virtuous to fight and gain honor through martial prowess, performing great sacrifices (of animals, rakshasas, nagas, etc.) and amass wealth and kingdoms. For a brahmin on the other hand, virtue is accumulated through knowledge, ascetism, forgiveness, wisdom, etc.

So for the brahmin commander (presumably the guru too) it might make sense for them to reincarnate into a lower path based on kill count. I can't say if that's something KO thought about when he designed the reincarnation mechanic though.