Looting bodies of dead heroes in crypt?

[Generic Roughneck]

Has anyone worked out how to do this? Is it even possible? I had thought that perhaps animating the corpse as a new hero could work, just don't have the souls to try yet. Would all the items even still be on the hero?

So many questions.

[Neonivek]

Sell them.

[Generic Roughneck]

Originally posted by Neonivek:

Sell them.

Sell the body? I then retain all items?

[Neonivek]

Originally posted by Webby:

Originally posted by Neonivek:

Sell them.

Sell the body? I then retain all items?

That is what it says.

[Generic Roughneck]

Originally posted by Neonivek:

Originally posted by Webby:

Sell the body? I then retain all items?

That is what it says.

Lol oh crap, sorry, I hadn't even moused over that option as I was more concerned with how to get the gear. Nice one! Thank you.

[Rage in The Dark (CoZ)]

or you create a magic tower and a crypt special and re-live the hero :-)

[Dain_Ironfoot]

What if they die and you don't have a crypt yet? Will they be in there when you build a crypt after the fact?

[Iguana-on-a-stick]

Originally posted by Dain_Ironfoot:

What if they die and you don't have a crypt yet? Will they be in there when you build a crypt after the fact?

You always have a crypt. The specific city upgrade just lets you gain stuff for having heroes in it.

(Not sure what happens if you lose your throne city though, it says specifically "in the crypt of Throne City Name" so presumably you can free captured heroes if you take an enemy throne? Or capture them yourself? Anyone know what happens then?)

[archonsod]

Originally posted by Iguana-on-a-stick:

(Not sure what happens if you lose your throne city though, it says specifically "in the crypt of Throne City Name" so presumably you can free captured heroes if you take an enemy throne? Or capture them yourself? Anyone know what happens then?)

Not sure about ones in the crypt, but you capture the living heroes (including those working for the enemy) and get a choice of whether to set them free, execute them or try to convert them to your cause.

[WizKilla]

Originally posted by Webby:

Has anyone worked out how to do this? Is it even possible? I had thought that perhaps animating the corpse as a new hero could work, just don't have the souls to try yet. Would all the items even still be on the hero?

So many questions.

Hey I was wondering if you might be able to answer a question for me..?
Do you know if the animating corpses from crypts is tied to dark culture specifically or is it the tome of souls that makes is available? Thanks :)

[WizKilla]

Originally posted by Iguana-on-a-stick:

Originally posted by Dain_Ironfoot:

What if they die and you don't have a crypt yet? Will they be in there when you build a crypt after the fact?

You always have a crypt. The specific city upgrade just lets you gain stuff for having heroes in it.

(Not sure what happens if you lose your throne city though, it says specifically "in the crypt of Throne City Name" so presumably you can free captured heroes if you take an enemy throne? Or capture them yourself? Anyone know what happens then?)

Yeah all bodies and prisoners factions capture are kept in their throne city so if you siege them and take them out you get the bodies and prisoners … (at least you get your own back I’m not sure if you get others too if they have more in there) but if a ruler takes out one of your heroes and you want them back if you’re thinking of bringing them back from the dead that’s how you’d go about it :)

[doskilos]

Is there any advantage to just keeping the body and not selling it? It feels kinda wrong to sell the remains of the evil necromancer to whoever would like them. I would much prefer to burn his corpse or something in that general direction... (And keep his stuff though!)

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by doskilos:

Is there any advantage to just keeping the body and not selling it? It feels kinda wrong to sell the remains of the evil necromancer to whoever would like them. I would much prefer to burn his corpse or something in that general direction... (And keep his stuff though!)

If you build the right structures, yes, there is an advantage to keeping the body.

[Iguana-on-a-stick]

Is there any advantage to just keeping the body and not selling it?

Wizard tower upgrades (cells, crypt) give you income (research, mana) for imprisoned/dead heroes.

They also allow you to resurrect dead heroes, or convert/execute imprisoned ones.

Dark culture has some additional structures that bolster the income from having imprisoned/dead heroes. (There may be others somewhere in a tome, but Dark is the one that comes to mind.)

Even with those structures though, getting 2 knowledge/turn is a lot less useful than getting, say, 140 gold and a bunch of magic items. So I usually end up selling the corpses anyway.

[titanopteryx]

Originally posted by doskilos:

Is there any advantage to just keeping the body and not selling it? It feels kinda wrong to sell the remains of the evil necromancer to whoever would like them. I would much prefer to burn his corpse or something in that general direction... (And keep his stuff though!)

If you build the wizard tower in your throne city, the crypt addon makes every body in the crypt generate mana. If you are of the Dark culture they get extra buildings that generate resources from bodies in the crypt as well.

Originally posted by WizKilla:

Originally posted by Webby:

Has anyone worked out how to do this? Is it even possible? I had thought that perhaps animating the corpse as a new hero could work, just don't have the souls to try yet. Would all the items even still be on the hero?

So many questions.

Hey I was wondering if you might be able to answer a question for me..?
Do you know if the animating corpses from crypts is tied to dark culture specifically or is it the tome of souls that makes is available? Thanks :)

You need to have one of the tomes of necromancy started. Like souls or necromancy or any of the tomes that unlock the trait that lets you collect souls. This is a way to make heroes of other cultures that you don't control undead if you went the wightborn path and want the buffs to undead to work on the hero. I haven't tried this but if you can get your pantheon hero that shows up in the campaign killed during a fight and you win the fight, he might go in your crypt and you might be able to undead him. Otherwise you can't do anything with the pantheon heroes regarding race transformations.

[ethorin101]

If you find the tomb wonder that'll give you more income per hero in crypt as well.