spellbooks caravans and adventurers

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Just a couple quick questions

 

1. If not picked when creating a sovereign how do you get certain spellbooks? Researching advanced spellbooks gave me enchantment and summoning, but what about fire, water, air, and earth? Is there a tech or are they found through adventuring?

2. Has anyone found a way to automate a guard for caravans?

3.While researching adventure techs I noticed an increase in npcs as well as an increase in their power. However, I was unable to recruit a level 4 warlord. Is this a bug or do these npcs become visible before I have the tech to recruit them.

4. Also on the topic of npcs, how does champion charisma affect recruitment cost. Is it global, based on the champion used to recruit, or does it have no affect?

5. What do the crowns on the tactical battle victory screen mean? Saw a post on this earlier but still it wasn't clear.

Sorry for the list. These are all the questions I haven't been able to figure out while playing today.

Thanks,

elemental
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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

1. IIRC both can give you additional spellbooks

3. Check your gold. If you don't have enough gold to hire them you can't talk to them. The higher the NPC level, the more cash you'll need.

4. I think only your sovereign's charisma matters.

5. It's the XP gained from the battle

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Thanks for the quick response.

About the crowns though, It always says 50 after the sovereign and often 0 after champions even if they have gained some. Also this happens regardless of the group faced, so still a bit confused.

As far as the charisma goes, seems like a worthless stat on champions then....

Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

2. Put a unit out there and have him guard. Not automated. Requires work (just like Civ4 or GalCiv2) :P

3. Yeah, he's likely out of your price range, too far away to recruit, already recruited, or has gone rogue (creature).

4. idk what charisma does. That might only effect the sovereign... which would be kinda stupid (and more the reason why we need attributes to effect bonuses).

5. The crowns actually represent the experience value of the unit, not experience gained. You'll notice it's always the same and never increases. It's also displayed for defeated enemies who are not gaining experience.