Niefelheim - Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?

[Edi]

Originally Posted by Fantomen

That only happens when you change shape IN the battle.
If you change into a werewolf before the battle it stays a werewolf after.

IIRC the Skratti has three forms: Skratti, Jotun werewolf and Jotun Wolf. If the Jotun werewolf form gets whacked, it changes to the Jotun Wolf and consequently drops all but misc. gear. If the jotun Wolf gets killed, it dies. If it survives, it should revert to the Skratti form.

The reason for this is that sometimes involuntary shapechange in battle triggers another shapechange command after battle and in the case of the skratti, because there are three forms, it does not work as things do with units that only have two forms.

[SsSam]

My test game shows Fantomen is correct, which is not the same as saying Edi is wrong.

If you change into the werewolf form in the strategic map and enter combat, your skratti will remain in that form during and after the battle.

If you change into werewolf form as a scripted (or I assume unscripted) part of your orders during the battle then at the end of the battle you will become a wolf.

I don't know what happens if you are killed. That's a bit tougher to test and Edi may well be correct as well.

What happens is folks want to enter combat in mage form to have access to that extra level of water or whatever. Then they script the change to werewolf form and get a rude shock when they start their next turn and the wolf has decided it wasn't that interested in all that shiny gear.

Big Jotun Oops.

My understanding is that this is a feature, not a bug.