Armor of Virtue not working?
 

In my recent game, the guy who's wearing armor of virtue did not teleport back to home province when hurt. He was not killed in the battle so that cannot be a reason. Also he did not have that blue returning ritual symbol. Is it a known bug since 3.17?

Re: Armor of Virtue not working?
 

now that you mention it, I think I may have had the same issue. At one point, anyone who donned the armor for a full turn would have the returning icon, even if he later took off the armor. Then it seemed to stop working but I'll have to go back and check.

Re: Armor of Virtue not working?
 

were you holding still on the first turn of the battle? There's some weird AE thing that the armor uses to slap the returning on your unit that seems to get messed up if you move off your starting square on turn 1. At least from what I remember (nothing from the current patch)

Re: Armor of Virtue not working?
 

Did he cast any buffs? Some buffs (Ironskin, Iron Will) sometimes remove bless effects from Armor of Virtue/Shroud. It's possible, if unlikely, that they remove returning as well. Was the icon gone at the beginning of battle or did it vanish partway throgh?

-Max

Re: Armor of Virtue not working?
 

You are absolutely right. He needs to hold on turn 1, then it works.

Now another bug, if he has ritual of returning up, you can take off the armor and still keeps the ritual. In fact you can give the armor to another commander for him to enjoy ritual of returning.

Re: Armor of Virtue not working?
 

^^ yeah, that's been around forever.

In this case, I would consider it a feature http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Armor of Virtue not working?
 

well, its got a few other features, as I reported in the bug list discussion.

Take a look at that discussion.

Re: Armor of Virtue not working?
 

It will also give the returning to all of the slaves of a communion if a master wears it.

Re: Armor of Virtue not working?
 

Only if the master/slaves are all using Crystal Matrixes (or are Pythian communicants, in the slaves' case).

-Max

Re: Armor of Virtue not working?
 

? it should give it to all the communion slaves, whatever they are, like any self-buff cast by a master.