Bug? Rule I am unaware of? Am I just stupid?

Yvelina · #1 September 13th, 2004, 09:06 PM

I was besieging a castle with a few units. I 'Astral traveled' a few troops and commanders in the province. The defenders sallied and my forces routed. It should have not been a big deal, as no one important was killed. Instead I had all of the teleported troops die with a 'no where to retreat' message. I lost a prophet, quite a few artifacts, etc... The strange thing is that the troops that had swam into the province, or that had been there before the attack retreated just fine.

Is this a bug (some troops dying, others retreating) or am I somehow not understanding what happened?

archaeolept · #2 September 13th, 2004, 09:11 PM

that does sound like buggy behaviour. the astral travelled troops were involved in the defense against the sally?

maybe send the turn file to illwinter.

Boron · #3 September 13th, 2004, 09:19 PM

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archaeolept said:
that does sound like buggy behaviour. the astral travelled troops were involved in the defense against the sally?

maybe send the turn file to illwinter.

Yeah the astral travelled troops travel magically so they should be in the province before normal battles and participate in the battle too . If that wasn't the case it sounds really strange .
They didn't fight magically moved troops before like ghost riders or other magically moved in troops of your opponent ?

The Panther · #4 September 13th, 2004, 11:41 PM

No, none of that happened. Her pretender was there seiging before the battle, and it looks like he retreated normally because he does not show up as dead on the HOF now. I simply broke the seige with a bunch of mages and stuff and did nothing weird.

The air queen and prophet teleported in and died. What was totally weird was that in my battle replay, both of those guys died during the battle while the pretender and icythid lord did escape, which was the final actual result! But in the battle summary, it showed that no heroes had died and all four had escaped. It is almost like my battle replay was accurate and the summary was not, but I have never seen this before. I surely wish they had died because I would have liked to find some of those unique artifacts. But they are now lost, about 200 gems worth of artifacts all together.

Also, she did have some adjacently owned provinces both before and after the battle.

I am begining to not like this latest patch at all with the bogus replays.

tinkthank · #5 September 14th, 2004, 07:31 AM

I do not believe this is due to the latest patch. I have had similar events happen in 2.12 and earlier. I had sent similar saves in to Illwinter, and was told that that was odd behavior indeed, but that they were unable to pinpoint its source. Perhaps if you send the appropriate files, they will be able to learn more? It often involves teleportation, but not always. I have had a GoH'ed Vastness just ... disappear, and similar stuff.

Yvelina · #6 September 14th, 2004, 05:35 PM

I have the client side files, but I am sure the server side files are gone... Is it worth sending what I have to Illwinder?

My boyfriend is trying to reproduce the bug, with no luck so far. He thinks it involves the Gateway stone, which by the way costs me nothing like 160 gems, Panther, given that I have the construction site, the Forge of ancients global, and the Forge Lord's hammer :-)

Now I guess that I will finally learn WHAT heroes come back as.