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I know the Sasanians at times chained levy spearmen to keep them from running away in battle, but I keep finding my Carthaginian army locked for a turn after fighting or resting in a town.

The above is happening in a HAN, 2nd Punic war game I'm been playing with Athena. So far, it has occurred 6 times in the first 3 game years; fours times after a battle and 2 for unknown reasons while resting in a city, maybe snow in winter?

When chained in place, each unit in the stack shows a lock symbol; a mouse over says the unit is locked for 1 turn, but the units sometimes remain frozen for longer.

Any idea what's up?

Most likely an event...check if anything is reported in the message log

PhilThib wrote:Most likely an event...check if anything is reported in the message log

No events in the message log.

Are units locked on the turn they receive replacement elements?

Problem solved.

Thanks to Armchair General who gave an answer to a CW2 question much like mine:

"It sounds like you have your Activation Rules at one of the settings that allow a chance that your stack becomes fixed-in-place if your commander fails his Activation Roll. (Good for you!) When a general rolls inactive under these settings, he is forced to make a second Activation check: if he fails a second time his entire stack is fixed in place for the turn (he gets a red stripe on his portrait that turn)."

I was about to suggest that - in fact I think ArmChair general was replying to me, so I too learned it from him.