Captured Giants

[Dark Russell]

Currently (in .25g) I am able to capture Hill Giants with a unit with the "Subdue Animal" promotion. Will this eventually be changed so they cannot be captured?

The reason I ask is I popped Animal Handling and Hunting from huts before turn 20 and had highly promoted hunters roaming about when I got attacked by a giant (and captured it!). This Hill Giant got highly promoted killing barbs when Orthus strolled along (with about 7 Orc Spearmen and 10 Goblins). My Giant had 100xp by this point so he slaughtered every last one of the barbs, including the ill-faited Orthus. A 7 str unit with Orthus Axe early in a Huge-Epic game is a sure game winner...especially since my hunters managed to subdue 5 other Hill Giants.

 

[Caradoc]

Speaking of Orthus, the last couple of times I encountered him he had tanked up and was just sitting on a Tribal Village. It looks like the Barbarian 'guard village' logic now applies to Orthus. You can walk up next to him and he does not attack. A puny Mage with a Fireball can take him out with no sweat.

 

[jenks]

Yeah i noticed that and popped a line in the bugs thread a while back, , im guessing it must be a bug as a giant is clearly not an animal!
dont see why it isnt an easy fix though to change giant type to the same as barbarians (i cant capture them)

 

[Uberslacker]

But wouldn't that mean the giants could enter cultural boundaries? <shudder>

 

[BeefontheBone]

They're animals so they spawn early and can't enter borders.

 

[3141592]

Barbarian giants can't go into cultural boarders, captured giants can.

Your real problem was not that giants could be captured, but when they were. I you had gotten hunting when everyone else did a captured giant would be deadly, but no game breaker (just look at pact of Nilhon).

 

[monolith94]

I think the idea of capturing giants is cool. It's not like they're particularly smart, after all...

 

[Dark Russell]

...ya, but they'd just rather eat you than work with you...it's just too complicated for them.

They use to be considered Beasts not Animals...anyways, I hope they get fixed at some point.

The Giant art is cool so in my Breath of Pestilence ModMod I am working on, I have a certain promotion called "Subdue Giant" that basically turns a captured Giant into a lesser version of itself (25% chance of capture).