Monks kill people they try to convert

[kelario27]

That pretty much sums up the problem. I first discovered it when I tried to convert a dock and it just disappeared. I then tested conversion on a house (which collapsed) and an enemy villager (who died). Later, I had a monk attacked by an enemy soldier; the monk "converted" him to kill him.

What's going on?

[Laptop]

Looks like the enemy has researched this -

http://ageofempires.wikia.com/wiki/Heresy

[Mr_F0NG]

Even after reading the description I was always confused about that technology for a long time. It's a defensive research. If your enemy is using a lot of monks or doing a monk rush on you, you can research heresy. Heresy causes your own units to die instead of being converted and fighting for the enemy. I always used to think it killed enemy units instead of converting them. Which seemed worthless so i never researched it. So that's the long version of what laptop wrote. The enemy has heresy researched so you can't convert his units. Instead they are killed/destroyed.

[Yung Dab]

i laughed when i read this. and then i remembered i thought siege engineers applied to hand cannoneers so i guess we all have those moments.

[kelario27]

Oh alright. So is there any way to disable that? Back in the old days when I installed the game from disc, without the Conquerors expansion, converting everything and assimilating it was one of the most fun things about it.

[Laptop]

Originally posted by kelario27:

Oh alright. So is there any way to disable that? Back in the old days when I installed the game from disc, without the Conquerors expansion, converting everything and assimilating it was one of the most fun things about it.

I guess you could create your own random map scenario but place a restriction on that upgrade so that no one can study it.

[Mr_F0NG]

If you are playing vs AI, maybe fight opponents that don't get that research. Check the tech tree to see which civ gets it, and which don't.

[Jezu]

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