What the...????

**sunsmountain** · 03-18-2005, 19:01

Though i sometimes experience blackouts, i still havent found a single clue as to why they're happening. They're exclusive to forts and cities (ie not in plain view), and they usually occur to me when i've been re-loading too many times.

Perhaps the map isn't re-initialized properly, say in the case of a new fort, or when cities are revolting.
Other than that, no idead. Any veterans ideas?

**Kraxis** · 03-18-2005, 19:09

Well, incidentally I killed off the first rebel family member, but after a few more turns another popped up, and guess what? He was a Horse Archer too.

Anyway I killed both the Peasant and the second Horse Archer in a battle. The Peasant was most certainly a family member in command of Peasants. He had the general look about him, not just the run of the mill captain looks.

So I wonder what is going on? Perhaps rebel family members aren't so picky when it comes to generating units? But I did have a few laughs when I killed that Peasant. He could have been in charge of a Rebel General unit, oddly enough, but he chose to go walking with his drinking buddies rather than sit on a nice strong horse protected by superb fighters.

Good to know that I'm not the only one that hava experienced the odd blackout. And it did go away when I ended the turn.

**Quillan** · 03-18-2005, 20:56

I have one general whose icon changes from minute to minute. When I select him, he's a war elephant. When I move him into a city, he becomes a stone wall. The next turn, he's a Praetorian Cohort. Shortly afterwards, he's a peasant, or an incendiary pig, or a warband. I can never tell, and occasionally I miss him because I don't see a character picture.

As to the blackouts, I have had them happen once or twice to forts, but most of the time, they happen to a city when I complete the new government building.

**hrvojej** · 03-19-2005, 01:38

Rebel family mambers can be in charge of any unit, not necessarily a rebel general unit (who are often a part of a rebel stack, but *without* family members - unlike any other general unit if I'm not mistaken).

In my experience as well, blackouts most often happen when cities finish new governor building. They are still selectable from the city list though.

**Beefy** · 03-19-2005, 11:51

perhaps those generals are just very poor? he can only afford pheasants

**Craterus** · 03-26-2005, 00:31

i've seen a rebel family member accompanied by peasants and horse archers...
(both were former persian family members)

**Brutus** · 03-26-2005, 18:55

I had a very strange "blackout" once as well... Playing as Britannia, I tried to bribe a multi-general Senate army, which, however, succeeded only for one general.

The other senators didn't seem to notice their fellow Roman was on the Briton side now, and didn't even kick him out of the army! After some turns, I did succeed in getting him out of the stack of Roman forces and moved him to my city of Segesta.

However, although the city scroll shows hm as the governor, his unit card (which cannot be selected), just shows a question mark...

And it doesn't matter if I go to the next turn, this just stays the same.

I just hope his name will change from "Gaius Maxentius" to "Gaius the Sneaky Bastard"