Something weird is happening with the resurrection spell over the last couple days.

I've played using the spell many times -- in fact I usually choose Dungeon town to start with and Alamar as hero, because he specializes in it. It has always worked fine.

But now I am ending battles with either my entire army intact or missing whatever amount of troops I couldn't resurrect because it was a tougher battle, noting that number, and then exiting the battle screen to find none or only some of my troops resurrected. Saving and reloading the game doesn't fix the numbers, nor does restarting the game, nor rebooting my computer, nor starting a new game.

This is really weird. It's the first time I've played in months, but I've done nothing to the game's directory or messed with it in any way. And I do know how to count and made sure multiple times that this problem was not just me spacing out in some way about how many troops I really started with or had rezzed. I even finally cleared out my savegame directory entirely and took some files off my hard disk to make sure there was all the room in the world for new info & savegames ...

Any ideas? I'm thinking just reinstall.

I have to check both games, but in the last game I didn't have earth magic at all. I almost always get earth magic as the first or second skill, so maybe I just got thrown this time and didn't remember you needed earth magic.

I think I'll confirm rezzing before and after earth magic. But I know I've done it before having EXPERT earth magic, and kept all my guys.

Thanks for the idea, now comes the tests ...

You need at least Advanced Earth Magic to resurrect living troops permanently with Resurrection. If you have no Earth Magic or only Basic, troops resurrected are for the battle only. Note that Animate Dead does not have this requirement - you don't need any Earth Magic for Animate Dead to reanimate undead troops permanently.

Best regards,
Steven.