Death of X

Why would you attack a neutral hero? Are you talking about the ones with the yellow base that are recruitable? I didn't even think it was possible to attack them. I've attacked plenty of enemy heroes (the ones with the red base), but never a yellow based-hero .. they actually give you a benefit if you hire them.

I've had that happen to me as well.  It's a rare event and has only happened twice out of dozens of games, but I don't see any pattern to it.  Basically I'll be exploring the world when out of the blue an NPC champion will attack one of my stacks.  If I kill him/her, then my rep goes down.  Anyone know what triggers this event?

I ended my turn adjacent to them (wanted to recruit on the next turn when I got enough gild) and before I could start my next turn I got a "You are being attacked" message.  Then I incinerated her in tactical, and got the "Death of Gara" message.

as i understand it, once you attack a recruitable hero, you will be unable to hire any heros from that point on, they will simply refuse to work for you, the ones you have you get to keep, but future ones are blocked. i usually restart/restore when this happens though.

as to why it happens, for me it seems to occur when i have a unit in a town selected and either try to use him to recruit the champion, or click near the champion and the game screws up and decides I clicked on him instead. instead of recruiting the champion, the selected unit comes out and attacks, and i get screwed. i've also seen it where the unit i have selected isn't really registered as selected, i.e. i can move him, but its showing me options as if a city were selected, then my orders cause really bizare behavior, its usually after an end turn.

if they are actually attacking and you are getting that message, i don't know what to say, maybe you had a unit with a destination and a champion moved into it causing an attack? maybe a bug with autoexplore or just an undocumented feature from one of the hot fixes.

 Same thing here.  I was attacked, kicked some butt and was told that was a no no.  I  remember reloading, thinking "don't make the computer people mad at you".  It happened only once and it was before the 1.07 update and has not happened since.  I'd forgotten about it until reading this post.

Well in this case it seems I can still recruit (just recruited Lewooz)... so fortunatley don't have to restart.

I guess I just took a rep hit, oh well.

The way you "attack" them is by having multi-turn movement that ends on their square (simultaneously moving on to it perhaps).  So I just get cautious about movement once I'm near one.

I Think I know why this happens, it seems to happen only after you set a predetruemend path for your units. I havent had it happen when I jsut move them their maximun amount.