Questions on unit abilties

Kakistocrat · Post by **Kakistocrat** » May 15th, 2004, 3:12 am

Firstly , I would like to say thank you to everybody who helped me get as far as scenario 7 on the campaign (I'm on easy difficulty, though). Your help not only made siege of Elensefar a breeze but let me beat crossroads and princess without any help.

Anyway, I've noticed a second line on the unit info sidebar which says things like "cure" and "heal". I just looked those two up in the manual and I don't think I've ever seen either work (also, does "cure" get rid of poison?) but I've noticed some other ones that have been eye-openers (such as "leadership," which made me think that I could recruit units with an elvish captain in my keep

and Konrad getting XP, or"teleport" for the unit above red mage

) and I've been wondering exactly how these work, because it isn't in my manual and I haven't seen a hotkey for them.

Post by **Dave** » May 15th, 2004, 3:15 am

Those are abilities. Mouse over them and a tooltip will appear, explaining how they work, or look at the Unit Description (right click on unit -> Unit Description) and it will explain it.

David

Kakistocrat · Post by **Kakistocrat** » May 15th, 2004, 3:23 am

Sorry for not clarifying, I'm on a mac running OSX

Post by **turin** » May 15th, 2004, 5:01 pm

Kakistocrat wrote:Sorry for not clarifying, I'm on a mac running OSX

that shouldn't make a difference. read the unit description. it describes the ability in there.

and this is probably explained in the wiki section "Getting Started". Why don't you read that to answer some of your questions? that seems like you would get answers quicker than posing them here...

Figa · Post by **Figa** » May 17th, 2004, 2:48 pm

I had the same problems when I first started playing. I could not find out exactly how the abilities like teleport, heal / cure & leadership, etc.. worked. It gave a little info when moused over but it doesn't explain with any detail exactly what is happening (game mechanics-wise). I think the manual is a lot better now then when I started a couple of months ago but it still is not very clear sometimes, especially for someone new. I had to read a lot of threads in the forum to really understand how these things worked. I would like to see a more comprehensive description in the maunual that goes into more detail of the game effects (like heal on the Elvish Shaman having a set limit on how much hp it gives vs. cure which gives hp to every adjacent unit). This information is out there between the manual and the forum but it is not easily located sometimes.

Figa

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