How do you get captured heroes back?

[Djtooth]

A couple of my heroes were captured by the enemy. They were still counted against my hero cap, and did not appear in my hero screen. I later destroyed the enemy and captured their throne. I did not get the heroes back, and they were still counted against my hero cap, and did not appear in my hero screen.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Djtooth:

How do you get captured heroes back?
A couple of my heroes were captured by the enemy. They were still counted against my hero cap, and did not appear in my hero screen. I later destroyed the enemy and captured their throne. I did not get the heroes back, and they were still counted against my hero cap, and did not appear in my hero screen.

If you managed to get them back from the city where they were hold, check your recruitment pool for them.

[Djtooth]

They did not appear in the recruitment pool. However I did get an evil event that increased the level of one of the lost heroes by 2. I still did not have access to them though.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Djtooth:

They did not appear in the recruitment pool. However I did get an evil event that increased the level of one of the lost heroes by 2. I still did not have access to them though.

So they are not shown anywhere? Prison, crypt?

[Howell-Barrex Soldier Ja'kala]

There is a bug currently where a hero killed by a world map spell can become lost without reducing the number of heroes in your hero limit and there is nothing you can do about it

[xDogSoldieRx]

Interesting feedback on this mechanic. I captured a few cat heroes from Story 1 when they keep spamming out to attack me. Have usually 2-3 of those cats in my prison, wonder if the hero count also applies to the AI, but dont seem so as they keep spamming heroes to attack me.

[Aunty Herbert]

Just to be sure, we aren't missing an obvious explanation: Prisoners (or hero corpses) don't have to neccessarily be held in the capital. In my own game, I just didn't care a lot about the hero's I smacked, and never found the time to build a crypt in my capital. Now I got 6 corpses in a crypt in the former capital of my last war booty..... which officially doesn't have a crypt either, because there is no wizard's tower there anymore.
I remember, that a few turns ago, they were all held in a non-existent "crypt" of my first conquered free city.

If you destroy the enemies throne and their realm shatters, and they never built a prison or crypt, your heros could be now in any one of the newly formed free cities.

Guess I really should build that crypt, but maaaan, I got so many other items on my construction list, that I want to build first.....

[Djtooth]

they were not in my crypt of prison. I won the war by taking all cities they owned.
I dont think the AI used hero caps, because I once held 9 heroes from them.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Djtooth:

they were not in my crypt of prison. I won the war by taking all cities they owned.
I dont think the AI used hero caps, because I once held 9 heroes from them.

That is not how the hero cap works.