What happened: Call of the Winds?

Andrew_Gross · #1 March 9th, 2007, 12:20 AM

I'm in a pbem game, and I just cast 3 "Call of the Winds" spells on an enemy province. The description of the spell says that it summons a Black Hawk with a large flock of hawks.

The results, sadly, were quite different: I am now the proud owner of 3 Great Hawks, with zero hawks to command between the 3 of them.

I have double checked the messages that I received this turn, and I did, indeed, cast Call of the Winds all 3 times. There was no battle in the province.

What happened? 3 Commanders with nothing to command in a far away province is useless, not just in my current situation, but in just about any conceivable situation. Why did I get Great Hawks instead of Black Hawks? And why didn't I get the flock of hawks to accompany them the way the spell description said I would?

Meglobob · #2 March 9th, 2007, 12:36 AM

Everytime I have cast it, I have got 20 hawks.

Gandalf Parker · #3 March 9th, 2007, 12:41 AM

Great Hawk is now the leader you get with that spell. A nice change. Not sure why you didnt get any followers. Ive been casting that spell all day and it hasnt failed me yet.

Andrew_Gross · #4 March 9th, 2007, 07:29 AM

What sort of information should I spend Illwinter to debug this? .trn files, .2h files, anything like that?

My game is basically over at this point. Those 60 missing hawks are the difference between successfully taking a VP point and just being wiped off the board. But, if they can figure out what the bug is from the game, it would be worth it.

Edi · #5 March 9th, 2007, 08:07 AM

Sounds like a fluke. I've never seen it fail that way, it has always given me the Great Hawk and 20 Black Hawks. The -trn and .2h files could help. Best if you just zip the whole save game folder into a package and attach it to this thread.

Edi

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Nick_K · #6 March 9th, 2007, 11:32 AM

Black hawks are rubbish in combat tho, if you were attacking an enemy province they surely wouldn't last long.
If you now own 3 great hawks, but there was no battle report... where are they? Is it possible you selected the wrong province by mistake? Even getting 1 commander in an enemy province should cause a battle. Have you checked the unit list for that province? Black hawks are small & dark so you might have missed them if they're not assigned to commanders.
If there was a battle report, I'd say 'pause it at the start and double check' black hawks die so quickly it's possible they got slaughtered without you noticing.