Armies

Each army or spirit has a set of army flags that affect its behaviour. Some are innate abilities of that army, others can be set with magic spells. The table lists each army's innate flags. The flag abbreviations are:

• F: Flying. Any army with this flag can fly. Move costs of sectors don't depend on altitude, and thus are much lower. These armies also ignore PATROLs and INTERCEPTs unless the patrolling army has missiles.
• H: Hidden. Army with this flag is magically cloaked.
• V: Vampire. Army with this flag will possess some of the dead on the battlefield who will join ranks with this army.
• T: Transport. This army is being transported as cargo.
• :̂ Missiles. This army has weapons that are thrown, such as arrows. Archers are a type of army with mssles. These units, when in PATROL or INTERCEPT status, will slow down flying units too (normally flying units are not slowed down by PATROLs or INTERCEPTs, though they do get intercepted once they land).
• W: Water. An army with this flag must stay in water, or in the land sectors along a coast; even if it belongs to a land nation. Compare with the L flag below.
• f: Front-line army. Can be loaded/unloaded on/from a ship or caravan on land that does not belong to you.
• k: Kamikaze. Armies with this flag will fight with very high bonus, but will all die in any battle.
• m: Machine. These armies are really machines, such as siege engines, war carts and catapults. They help ordinary armies in combat by destroying fortifications and adding bonus to the armies.
• d: Disguised. You can disguise this army so that it will appear to be of another type to other players. For example, to disguise a poltergeist as an areal serpent you would change the armies name so that it ends with ``/areal_serpent''.
• w: Wizard. This flag means that the army can summon spirits and cast spells, like a mage.
• s: Sorcerer. This flag means that the army can excercise powers of sorcery (not implemented yet).
• c: Cargo. This army can transport cargo, like ships and caravans.
• U: Underground. This army can burrow underground, and thus is not slowed down by patrols and intercepts.
• L: Land. This is the exact inverse of the W flag. An army with this flag must stay on land, or in water sectors along the coast; even if it belongs to a water nation. Notice that if you have both the L and W flags, you can move that army onto any sector on the map.
• I: Inverse altitude. This flag says that the army will have either the L or the W flag, depending on the race of the army's owner. If the army belongs to a land race, then it will have a W flag, and vice-versa. This flag is used mostly for things like ships, which travel in the ``inverse'' altitude medium.
• *: Race specific. These armies are available only to certain races.