Item Secrets

[drool]

what things count when you slay enemy commander and receive/not receive his items?

do i have to be in close combat or sumthing like thet? do items stay in the province after the battle, so that patrolling or searching troops may find then afterwards. this could be nice add in upcoming patch, if its not all ready part of the game. i havent come across such events in my games.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by drool:
what things count when you slay enemy commander and receive/not receive his items?

AFAIK, it's random, and the recipient(s) must also have available free slots for the items that *might* be picked up.

[Vynd]

The manual says that cursed items and artifacts are more likely to be found than other items. I've never heard of people finding items that were dropped on a previous turn.

[Boron]

Originally posted by drool:
what things count when you slay enemy commander and receive/not receive his items?

there is a section about that in the manual :
page 18 loot :
the power of the item determines the chances of finding the item ( research level counts for that not magic paths levels ) .
according to the manual artifacts and cursed items are almost always found .
furthermore they state that the items are found by a random commander on the winning side .

interesting :
afaik you can't remove a cursed item right ?
is there any cool use of that ?
perhaps when your enemy has a nonimmortal sc pretender could you send a scout to battle with him with 2 eyes of aiming ?
the pretender should find them and be BLIND hehe .
then he has to chose whether staying blind or losing 1 in all his paths
if you are already winning this could be great for humiliating your opponents

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Boron:
afaik you can't remove a cursed item right ?

Except by dying and making sure you have no other commanders in the same province, or that they have all the slots the cursed item could go into already filled.

perhaps when your enemy has a nonimmortal sc pretender could you send a scout to battle with him with 2 eyes of aiming ?
the pretender should find them and be BLIND hehe .
then he has to chose whether staying blind or losing 1 in all his paths
if you are already winning this could be great for humiliating your opponents

Except you must remember that what goes around, comes around. Be careful killing that poor schmuck pretender.

[Edi]

Originally posted by Vynd:
The manual says that cursed items and artifacts are more likely to be found than other items. I've never heard of people finding items that were dropped on a previous turn.

I have. Had a Wraith Lord armed with the Sickle Whose Crop Is Pain and other nifty stuff, as well as another one equipped to the max. An enemy Lich and his assorted backup whacked both of them and I lost a ****load of expensive equipment. Four turns later I stomped the offending nation to tiny little bits and my various support commanders got back roughly a third of the equipment that got lost (including the Sickle). I've also had it happen to me on another occasion where an equipped firbolg got hammered and then his killers stomped a few turns later.

The amount of equipment I got back was rather large given how much is usually never found in the first place.

Edi