Damaged groups of troops going to 1 after save and load

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Hello,

 

I have a bug where I had to damaged groups of 8 guards that I had in town resting.  I saved the game, and came back and although the graphic shows 8 in the group the hitpoints reflect only one dude.  When I hit next turn the icon and the graphic turn into one guy instead of the my group of 8.  Has anyone else had this issue?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes - when we had too little food, and the chaps left me without mentioning it - simply ran away, looking for food elsewhere, I presume. Or maybe they starved in their beds, I didn't check...

 

How's your food supply?

 

Ciao,

Klaus

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

That's a bug from having recovering squads on a save/load game.

Only work around: Never quit a game when your troops are not top health :s

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Which is a problem, because they get a boost when going into a city a lot of the time, so they are often "damaged" right when you want to save.

And they they get reduced to 1 on the reload.

 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting mafavreau, reply 2
Only work around: Never quit a game when your troops are not top health
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That'd be peachy but my game crashes so much I don't have that level of control.

With the increased resource cost to train quality troops, this ultimately results in a huge loss of resources, because replacing the "lost" units is painful.

 

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting KlausBreuer, reply 1
Yes - when we had too little food, and the chaps left me without mentioning it - simply ran away, looking for food elsewhere, I presume. Or maybe they starved in their beds, I didn't check...

 

How's your food supply?

 

Ciao,

Klaus
End of KlausBreuer's quote

 

Food is great i have like 16.5 positive food income.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

We have had several post about this bug (not a "you did not search barb") I think this one needs to be on the "squash me asap" list...

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

It's why I don't leave home without a mage hero escorting my troops, and in the high traffic mob areas I use my kids as they all have mana/health regen somehow. Use confusion on the stacks that may strike your troops or whom they are going to hit without 1 hit killing and you will never need to worry about it, on the other hand, it's easy enough to just heal the stack if they do take damage from a counter attack.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

on the other hand, it's easy enough to just heal the stack if they do take damage from a counter attack.
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Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. That's not the problem. Its a bug and a serious one at that. Especially combined with all the other reloading issues and the current high probability of crashes and thus forced reloads. I has to go soon despite whatever inconvenient workaround may exist out there.

Defending the guys at Stardock is nice (and to some degree they also deserve it).  But a bug is a bug is a bug.

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Voqar, reply 4

Quoting mafavreau, reply 2Only work around: Never quit a game when your troops are not top health
That'd be peachy but my game crashes so much I don't have that level of control.

With the increased resource cost to train quality troops, this ultimately results in a huge loss of resources, because replacing the "lost" units is painful.

 
End of Voqar's quote

 

This.

Though one time I had a unit get decimated and level up, so I ended up with a single super solder of sorts.