# Skulls against submerged troops

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/skulls-against-submerged-troops/65134>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [July 29, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/skulls-against-submerged-troops/65134 "2020-07-29T16:55:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Fleet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/fleet/32/74121_2.png) [@Fleet](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fleet)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/skulls-against-submerged-troops/65134/1 "2020-07-29T16:55:32Z")

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PC/Windows 10

**What you were expecting to happen, and what actually happened:**  
Guild War battle. My last surviving troop (Ilithian Colosus) could not do any Skull damage against Axolotl, which was submerged.

**How often does this happen? When did it begin happening?**  
In this combat, I did _no_ skull damage despite 5 or 6 matches. It is the first time I’ve noticed this.

The Submerge trait avoids damage against the whole team, but skulls damage only the first troop. Is this a bug? Or a badly worded trait?

**Steps to make it happen again**

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**Author:** ![Grundulum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/skulls-against-submerged-troops/65134/2 "2020-07-29T16:58:06Z")

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This sounds like either your troop was entangled, or its attack had been reduced to 0 by stat drain, or the AI troop kept getting barriered. Submerge has not protected against skull damage for me or for the AI I’ve played against.