Info: Summoning Healer Commanders

[P3D]

To heal old age affliction one can just remove the old age and heal. Granted, applicable only in special cases. Either by increasing Nature magic (Mace, empowerment) or Rejuvenation (Blood).

[Dragar]

would Boots of Youth + healing work??

[Edi]

Originally Posted by Dragar

would Boots of Youth + healing work??

No, they just stop aging and prevent future old age afflictions. You need to actually get the age below old age threshold by Rejuvenation (reduces age) or increasing nature magic (increases old age threshold) before the healing works.

For most healing related issues, see FAQ.

[Rookierookie]

Does healing work on battle afflictions gained by an old unit?

[ano]

Good question. Just wanted to ask it myself...
If I understood you right, Edi, old age tag on a unit means that no afflictions can be healed. Is it really so? I'm facing this currently in one game - trying to heal two old mages with no success (I manually diseased them).

[Edi]

Originally Posted by Rookierookie

Does healing work on battle afflictions gained by an old unit?

Yes. I've had old units heal successfully.

I'm guessing afflictions have a binary flag for old age. If the flag is set, it can't be healed until the unit is no longer old, while afflictions gained in battle can be healed.

ano, how many attempts and what caused the disease?

[ano]

ano, how many attempts and what caused the disease?

Several turns with 3 or 4 Arco priestesses attempting to heal 2 Adepts of Silver Order. I manually diseased them with Fever Fetish (it was once said that golems are more likely to ignore "Returning" script if the "magic dueler" you send against them has low HP).
Will test it today for more exact results.

[ano]

Just tested it. 6 arco pristesses trying to heal 3 Bakemono Sorcerers (diseased with fever fetish and then removed it) for 6 turns with no success. No wound was healed.
It looks quite obvious and it seems that Leprosy is really a terrifying spell for nations with cap-only old mages.

[Edi]

Item based afflictions are dicey. I have no idea how they count.

A better test is if you put Chillsick Swamp, Crown of Darkness, Leper Fens and Inkpot end in the province where you have the old mages. Once they get disease, move them to a province next door with the priestesses and see if you can heal the affliction, because that disease is guaranteed to be normal. The test will be more reliable.

[thejeff]

The other obvious test would be to use the Fetishes to disease young commanders and see if those can be healed.