Anyone else seen this? (Adoption Failed)

So I sit down, turn the computer on and load my Rome campaign. As soon as the campaign loads a message pops up saying I have a new adoptee. I'm thinking, "huh?", because that message wasn't there when I saved, and the game doesn't save random chance messages like that anyway.

Nevertheless I'm happy to see another general so I of course click the "Accept" button. Whereupon a new message pops up saying the man I was going to adopt is dead. :dizzy2: At which point I'm thinking, "wtf??? what was the point of that?" Anyway, here are the relevant screenshots so you can see for yourselves:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...3-00-07-89.jpg

followed by:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...3-00-20-57.jpg

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Oh, and I got the screenshots because after this very strange event, I exited and loaded game again, and the same sequence occured. So I was able to get screenshots of it.

Yes I have seen this happen

......Orda

Yes many times, its another of the RTW teams' pythonesque sense of humour. Although I now am playing RTR, I admire the RTW team making it a little less serious at times(head hurlers, speeches about girls in dresses etc.)

Haven't seen it on loading but I have seen it after battles. It means he was up for promotion due to a heroic victory but he died in the battle.

Did you have a captain die just before saving? Maybe the game assessed the battle differently on reloading?

nah - cause that's a "Man of the Hour" message - I've gotten those - they're formatted different... this was, to initial appearances, a standard adoption setup... and then he was dead - it did give me a laugh tho...

I had a captain adoption happen after a battle last night playing as the Germans and it was the message in your first screen shot. Not man of the hour.

The screen in which the adoption is offered allready provides a clue. No personal picture of the guy, normally you get one. You got the Scipii flag..

Yup,

I have had a few of those as well. Lots of excuses, the most vivid being along the lines of;

"the messenger lacked the fleetness of foot."

Send the messenger on a fast horse next time!

Strength and Honor

Celt Centurion

yeah had that happen on a few occaisions , never gave me a laugh though - especially if it was a good general ~;)

:balloon2:

how did you manage to get that many provinces in 10 years? ~:confused:

See my thread on "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" for info on the fast conquering..,

thnx for the feedback - I didn't know what had happened - kinda cool - there are other messages like that too - lol - first time I noticed it...

Maybe he was assassinated by a member of your faction. Some generals don't like rivals, who could steal the place in the line of heirs :P

Yeah, but only rarely.

rarely i had it 12 times in one campaign.....but that was also the only campaign it happened...