Unusual sighting troops

[Eregnon]

In unusual sightings, the description says there are 12 troops plus the leaders. Yet in each sighting I've investigated, a minimum of 16 troops get killed. Where are the other troops coming from?

[VballMichael]

Now that is funny

[unclemike]

They're just random sentence fragments thrown together for the most part. I think originally back in the Clipper days, it was 12 troops but since then there were other battle fragments that were later added to the scenarios. For the Java version, I just copied much of the older system since people wanted the same experience as before so some mistakes were incorporated into the new system that way as well.

For 3rd Cycle, Ry Vor and myself were too rushed to get things done in the last two weeks of development before Dec 2 so we didn't have time to change encounter descriptions but added some new weapon effects (much more powerful than before as well as enhancing the group leader's chances of surviving/being promoted from battle). Ry Vor also added several new artifacts (along with a princess to be rescued and a pair of dragons to aid your group) as I mentioned in my other post so 3rd Cycle has some improvements in that area but due to the lack of time, encounter descriptions remained the same.

[twhitewolf10]

In unusual sightings, the description says there are 12 troops plus the leaders. Yet in each sighting I've investigated, a minimum of 16 troops get killed. Where are the other troops coming from?

its like when you throw a party and all those people show up that you did not invite ( grin )