Unit unable to flag a village

[Helmet]

My enemy unit Vinkus can't flag a village for some reason.

In my campaign's first scenario, Vinkus is the enemy leader of side 2. Vinkus almost certainly survives the skirmish. His data is stored via store_unit, so he can reappear in the middle of Scenario 2.

Scenario 2 begins with Human/side 1 fighting saurians side 2. Vinkus will be the only member of side 3 (until he recruits something). I didn't want side 3 to appear in the Status Table until Vinkus arrives on the scene. I used hidden=yes to do this. After Vinkus is un-stored, I used hidden=no to add his side to the Status Table.

Also, in the previous scenario, Vinkus was side 2, so after Vinkus was un-stored, I changed him to side 3 via modify_unit. So far, so good (presumably).

So Vinkus arrives on the map in the middle of Scenario 2, but he can't flag a village. I've read the wiki and tried everything I can think of to fix the problem, including some wild guesses, but nothing worked. Any help would be appreciated.

Note: I have side 3 set to no_leader=yes. But even when I add an unwanted leader, Vinkus can't flag a village.

Here are the two sections of relevant code.

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    [side] #						Side 3
        side=3
        color=teal
        team_name=3 #						<<< not an ally of the saurians (side 2)
        user_team_name= "Team Vinkus"
        gold=20 # default is 100
        hidden=yes
        controller=ai
        no_leader=yes
 #      id=UnwantedLeader
 #     name= "UnwantedLeader"
 #     unrenamable=yes
 #	type=Skeleton
 #	canrecruit=yes
 #	recruit="Giant Rat"
 #      x,y=13,10 #  middle-bottom of map
 #      max_moves=1
    [/side]

	[event]
		name=turn $vinkus_returns
    		[if]
    			[variable]
				name=vinkus_alive
				equals=yes
			[/variable]
			[then]
			
				# Unstore a unit inside the event that creates it
			    	[unstore_unit]
			        	variable=variable_that_stores_vinkus
			        	x,y= 25,10 # 	<<< where unstored unit appears
			    	[/unstore_unit]
			    	{CLEAR_VARIABLE variable_that_stores_vinkus}

				[modify_unit] #		<<< changes Vinkus to side 3
					[filter]
						id=Vinkus
					[/filter]
					side=3
					extra_recruit=Thief
				[/modify_unit]			
				[modify_side] #		<<< un-hides side 3 from the status menu
					[filter]
						side=3
					[/filter]
					hidden=no
				[/modify_side]			
    				[move_unit]
        				id=Vinkus
        				to_x=23
        				to_y=8
        			[/move_unit]
    				[message]
					speaker=Vinkus
     					message= _ "Truce over!"
				[/message]
			[/then]
		[/if]
	[/event]

[Straff]

I think the „no leader=yes“ causes your trouble.
Remove that line, and it should work.

[Helmet]

I removed no_leader=yes, but it didn't work. Vinkus still can't flag a village. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

[Pentarctagon]

How is the unit getting to a village?

[vghetto]

I might be wrong about this, but I think a side can flag villages if they have a unit with canrecruit=yes. Make sure Vinkus can recruit.

[Helmet]

Vinkus appears on a random turn (turn 5, 6 or 7). He appears after using unstore_unit. He appears on hex 25, 10 within forest terrain. And then he immediately moves via move_unit to a village on hex 23, 8.

I want him to steal a village from the player, assuming the player had left it unguarded. As it is, if the player had flagged the village and left, Vinkus can't flag it. It will remain flagged by the player.

[Pentarctagon]

If you take control of side 3 and manually move him off the village and back onto it, does the village get captured then?

[Helmet]

Okay, something weird is going on for sure.

I doubt Vinkus could recruit, so that was a problem. Evidently his recruit list from Scenario 1 didn't carry over to Scenario 2. So I gave him a recruit list that only had "Thief" in it, and then I allowed him to run into the player's keep and recruit. Vinkus recruited some thieves.

Here is the weird part. When the thieves were badly damaged and ran away from the battle, they didn't notice villages. One thief ran 'through' a village and kept going. Hmmm. I don't know what this means, but it looks like a clue.

[Helmet]

If you take control of side 3 and manually move him off the village and back onto it, does the village get captured then?

Results! Weird results, but results.

I made side 3 controller=human like you suggested. Vinkus ran to a village after he appeared on the map, as expected. Vinkus did not flag the village, as usual. But then, when it was my turn to move Vinkus, I moved him off the village and back on, and he flagged it!

What does this mean?

[Pilauli]

If the unit has the leader crown icon over their health bar, they have canrecruit=yes set. The contents of the recruit= list should be irrelevant.

Maybe move_unit doesn't trigger village-flagging the way it would if the unit moved itself?

You could try manually flagging the village like this:

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    [capture_village]
        side=3
        x,y=26,5
    [/capture_village]

Of course, (26,5) is the location of the village I tested it with.

[Helmet]

I just tested move_unit also. You are right: move_unit doesn't allow a unit to flag a village at the destination. I had no idea. Thanks! Problem solved! Also, thanks for pointing me toward capture_village. It was a relief to finally see that teal flag appear in the village after Vinkus runs there.

By the way, I did some more testing and this time the thieves ran to villages to heal, like they should. Whew.

Thanks everybody for your help!