Minions die after getting healed

[Lorgres]

Hi, I've recently got the game and I'm struggling with raiding even seemingly weak enemies.

I recently went after some elves and due to their leader having a bow I had some losses.
Some of my minions survived so I decided to stick around and heal them with my goblin priest.
Afterwards they were still unconscious though, so I waited for that to end before going to the next ? location on the map.
When it ended they just suddenly died due to starvation if I read the text correctly.
How do I avoid this? Is there a way to wake someone up after healing them?

Same goes for captures, I tried capturing a horse for my keeper but the horse just turned into a corpse after a few turns on the floor.

[Michal Brzozowski]

Sounds like your minions were captured by the elves, if you captured their village they would have been freed or turned into regular prisoners if you left.

Capturing enemies requires going back to your base and clicking on them in the immigration ui.

[Lorgres]

Originally posted by Michal Brzozowski:

Sounds like your minions were captured by the elves, if you captured their village they would have been freed or turned into regular prisoners if you left.

Capturing enemies requires going back to your base and clicking on them in the immigration ui.

They didn't get captured, their bodies literally turned into corpses.
The loss screen reported them as deaths iirc.
I'll see if I can take a screenshot/video of it next time I play.

Thanks for the quick help though!

[di eshor ribly]

Originally posted by Lorgres:

Originally posted by Michal Brzozowski:

Sounds like your minions were captured by the elves, if you captured their village they would have been freed or turned into regular prisoners if you left.

Capturing enemies requires going back to your base and clicking on them in the immigration ui.

They didn't get captured, their bodies literally turned into corpses.
The loss screen reported them as deaths iirc.
I'll see if I can take a screenshot/video of it next time I play.

Thanks for the quick help though!

Minions have 3 states. Alive and walking around, dead, or captured and laying down. If your minions were laying down on the field, they had been captured. Captured minions (yours and enemies) die after their timer reaches 0. To prevent this you need to enslave the enemies (exit combat and "recruit" them through the immigration system) or destroy the enemy base to free your minions.

Your minions died because you let the timer run out.