Caravan Master

[Tanaka Khan]

So playing Cathay I had a decently levelled Caravan Master who's caravan was wiped out and he was wounded. After several turns I got the message he was available again but where is he? I can't see him in the caravan menu. Have I lost him?

[Perplex]

He is in your lord menu probably. (I am just guessing)

Did you hit the hire a new caravan leader button to see if he is there?

[Tanaka Khan]

Originally posted by Perplex:

He is in your lord menu probably. (I am just guessing)

Did you hit the hire a new caravan leader button to see if he is there?

Yes, I can't seem to find him anywhere

[huey30]

If he was wounded in the same battle that you lost the rest of the caravan than he is dead for sure.

[Tanaka Khan]

Originally posted by huey30:

If he was wounded in the same battle that you lost the rest of the caravan than he is dead for sure.

Yet he was over level 25, I got the message that he was wounded, and several turns later the message that he had healed.

[Father Ribs]

Did he have that item that turns "killed into wounded" equipped?

(Deleted second half, 'cause it's Chorfs that don't have immortal caravans.)

[CrUsHeR]

It is a somewhat underdeveloped feature.

So if your first 1-2 convoys don't survive for some reason, there's no chance for a new caravan to survive those attacks later in the game. IIRC they also don't get the extra units from the first visit. This would be better if there was a way to improve the initial roster in new hired caravans.

Financially, it really isn't worth the effort. Let's say your caravan generates 600 gold profit on a 10 turn journey, you merely made 60g / turn. Not counting the initial hiring cost of the caravan. That is less than lowest income building, not counting stuff like Khorne recruit buildings generating 50.
Convoys are even worse, at most you get to convert some really expensive resources like Armaments into another resource. Most of the contracts can't even be done early in the game because you don't have 400 armaments.

Only thing really worth it are stuff like the Von Carstein Blade and the Luminark Lens. After that you don't really need to bother with the feature.

[Father Ribs]

Have you noticed lately that either ogres are not making camps, or your convoys can't recruit ogre mercs anymore? Sometimes I see the recruit mercs button, sometimes not, but even when it's there it's greyed out.