Sandro Campaign griffin bug

[Praxis and Theory]

I'm trying to do Sandro's campaign, but whenever I end up fighting unupgraded griffins, the game crashes as soon as they do their dive attack. The only way that I've found around this so far is to go for ice bolt and freeze them (assuming they're only in 1 stack, but I'm rarely that lucky) and hope that I can manage to kill them before their 2nd turn. In EVERY other campaign I've done (and I've done about half of them so far) I haven't had that issue. It only occurs in Sandro's campaign, and only when enemy griffins dive.

I'm also having some trouble with the bug in the 2nd naga campaign where the east fort at the start isn't there, and it's just a U. I've seen some other threads about this but haven't tried anything yet.

[Les Grossman]

As far as I know, griffin bug only occures when you summon Spectral Dragons with Dragonbone staff, just don't use this ability and you'll be fine. That's what caused it for me anyway.

About disappearing fort in Naga campaign, yes, it's also a bug. If you don't want this fort to disapper, you have to not attack or interact with Shark Guard on the beach. You can google it for more exact info. Tbh, this little "bug" gives you more advantages on this map than downsides, I always trigger it to disapper anyway, less headache with keeping an eye on the fort to be uncaptured near my main castle.

[Praxis and Theory]

The naga campaign one is fine now (I ignored the shark guard as you said) and thx for the tip about the staff. I like using it to prevent losing real troops, but it looks like I'm gonna have to strategize a bit more like i did for kiril's campaign. Thx for the help, I appreciate it =). It really sucks that you can't convert Giovanni's town, though.

[Praxis and Theory]

Do you know any more specifics about the bug? if it affects later maps in Sandro's campaign, if it bugs it immediately after the first use of the staff, etc?

[Les Grossman]

引用自 meldragora：

Do you know any more specifics about the bug? if it affects later maps in Sandro's campaign, if it bugs it immediately after the first use of the staff, etc?

I tried this staff few times during all Sandro's missions, and it always bugged on Griffin dive attack. I don't know if this bug happens in other campaigns/missions with different heroes, since I don't use it anyway. About Sandro's campaign - this staff is true cheat item so I'm somehow happy about this bug, it's not much harder to play without it since there are only 2 missions and you find Staff of the Netherworld which haven't any bugs and fits Sandro way better.
Good luck.

[clearbeard]

As a more general answer, any time a griffin that is under the effect of a dragon's fear aura attempts a dive attack, the game will freeze. The most common way this happens is with the summoned undead dragons, but if you move a black dragon next to one on the first turn it will occur as well. The best workaround I've found is to wait to summon your dragons until *after* the dive attack starts. You'll have to soak their strike but your game won't crash. Or use a different weapon, as others have suggested.

[Praxis and Theory]

I've switched to the other campaigns for now but I'm planning on using a different staff when I go back to it. There's too many undead campaigns, and I'm trying to spread the different factions around (I've done all but Sandor, Sandro, Raelag and the final campaign so far). I get so picky about losing troops sometimes, which is why I like the dragon staff, but by no means do I need it. Also, thanks for the general answer there clearbeard, that's nice to know. Ironically, if you get lucky enough with the fear aura the griffins will all skip their turn anyways =P.

[Zlorfik [CH/BY]]

Thanks for the input on griffins. Luckily they didn't guard anything important so far. But it's pretty bad not to use the dragons... They are my free ticket to no loss fights...