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Okay, I'm not sure if this is intended or not ... but I just lost to Resoln due to the Spell of Making, but the loss screen showed Loss by Conquest, with the whole armies lying dead around thing ... which doesn't seem right for that particular loss.
Is it working as intended, or is it pulling the wrong loss screen?
Thanks!
I just tried to recreate this by setting the game pace option high, sitting in my first town and hitting enter for turn after turn. Resoln had built the Forge of the Overlord, but I'm not sure they had cast the spell of making. The game ended when I hit the turn limit (after 350+ turns), and that was also presented as a loss by conquest. So I don't know if I recreated what you did or not, but it does appear that the loss by conquest ending screen is used for more than just a real loss by conquest.
Not sure ... but you can tell if they cast the spell by watching the progress of the spell on the section in the upper right corner. You see them build the towers, then underneath it is a bar that fills up as the spell progresses.
I hope that was clear, I'm not sure how to explain it better. But it's right underneath where the little icons of the towers show up. Once something appears there, you're pretty much screwed ... unless you've already cast the spell and yours is further along than theirs. Or you're surrounding their last city and can kill them before it completes.
In that case Resoln had not started casting the spell in my game. I could see that they had completed all 4 towers, but I didn't see any additional indication.
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