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Pu239 Jun 2, 2023 @ 7:15pm
Captured Hero
One of my 3 heroes was captured by a free city. He still counted against my hero cap which would seem reasonable, except...

I conquered the free city and made it a vassal. That returned the hero to my recruit pool but I'm still at 3/3 hero cap and recruiting him now puts me over the cap costing 30 gold per turn. This doesn't seem reasonable to me since I rescued the hero. Is this working as intended?
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Originally posted by アンジェル:
Originally posted by CrUsHeR:
Yep several things don't seem to reduce the hero cap.

Example there's a vassal event about assassins, if you pick the option to send one of your heroes as bodyguard then he's gone forever, but the hero cap does not go down.

Interestingly that can be cured the same way. Recruit a cheap hero and have them killed against Marauders.
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elijafire Jun 2, 2023 @ 7:35pm 
lol nice!
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DesertRose92 Jun 2, 2023 @ 11:12pm 
The game seems to behave the same with special enemies from map generation.
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アンジェル Jun 3, 2023 @ 12:58am 
Originally posted by Pu239:
Captured Hero
One of my 3 heroes was captured by a free city. He still counted against my hero cap which would seem reasonable, except...

I conquered the free city and made it a vassal. That returned the hero to my recruit pool but I'm still at 3/3 hero cap and recruiting him now puts me over the cap costing 30 gold per turn. This doesn't seem reasonable to me since I rescued the hero. Is this working as intended?

If that is "working as intended" then it is awful game design. Therefore I consider it a bug instead. The hero which got back into your recruitment pool - take them and have them run solo and get killed. That will refresh the counter properly and deal with the undead bug as well.
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CrUsHeR Jun 3, 2023 @ 3:09am 
Yep several things don't seem to reduce the hero cap.

Example there's a vassal event about assassins, if you pick the option to send one of your heroes as bodyguard then he's gone forever, but the hero cap does not go down.
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アンジェル Jun 3, 2023 @ 3:24am 
Originally posted by CrUsHeR:
Yep several things don't seem to reduce the hero cap.

Example there's a vassal event about assassins, if you pick the option to send one of your heroes as bodyguard then he's gone forever, but the hero cap does not go down.

Interestingly that can be cured the same way. Recruit a cheap hero and have them killed against Marauders.
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Pu239 Jun 3, 2023 @ 4:20am 
That getting any hero killed corrects the counter does seem to verify it's a bug. I finished that map but will keep the workaround in mind. Thanks!
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