How to capture

[DemonJwan]

How do you capture enemies in combat, I have the chains in my inventory and I reduced the npc to 3 hp but even surrounding them a capture icon never appears in my hotbar (like I've seen in guides) am I doing something wrong or is my game bugged? I'm so confused and there's no in game tutorial or explanation on capturing

[halcyan2]

You already covered these:

#1. You need chains

#2. The enemy needs to be at less than half health

However, you also need to fulfill these:

#3. Certain enemies cannot be captured: Leaders, those with the Seasoned trait, Named characters (even if they don't explicitly have Seasoned or are Leaders), and certain other characters (like Purifier merchants)

#4. The enemy also needs to be engaged in combat with another one of your characters when someone else tries to capture them. That does mean that certain enemies that can't be engaged, cannot be captured.

[LeBurns]

Right click the enemy and check their skills. It will tell you if they can not be captured. I wasted a lot of time trying to capture the uncapturable before realizing why.

Also, for some reason it seems I can’t capture a person/animal until turn two. I don’t know why but sometimes that happens. Like the game insists on giving the enemy a turn before capturing.

[DemonJwan]

I think the problem was I hadn't visited the tilten jail yet because the fight directly after visiting the jail i got a tutorial on capturing enemies. So even though i had gotten the quest from the sawmill to capture people and had chains to capture them with I still couldn't do it because I had never visited the jail

[Andrey]

Originally posted by LeBurns:

Right click the enemy and check their skills. It will tell you if they can not be captured. I wasted a lot of time trying to capture the uncapturable before realizing why.

Also, for some reason it seems I can’t capture a person/animal until turn two. I don’t know why but sometimes that happens. Like the game insists on giving the enemy a turn before capturing.

Also I can't capture person who have Name, but it does not have any skills that prevent capture