Sneaked moose??
 

Just found out that Jotun moose riders have sneak.
I tried to imagine this and couldn't http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif. Sneaking mooses are a nonsense!) Imagine a big Pythian city where suddenly arrives a herd of moose and guards don't see them. Actually noone does)
Moose herds make perfect raiders. They unexpectedly attack villages and then gallop back to the forests. Also moose may live in your village for weeks or months and you won't see them because they are masters of sneaking. You are actually more likely to notice a group of 20 cloaked wardens than a herd of 10 moose http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
How do you see it?

ps. Beware! Moose are near!!!

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Extract from Wikipedia:
Add from vaettir:

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Well it makes sense in Alaska or Sweden.

Seems to me all animals should have stealth but only in terrain they have survival for.

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Its magic. Just magic.

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Moose when you can see them, Meese when you can't.

Meese are related to mice.

So now you know how they sneak up on you.

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Moose are sneaky animals. Let me quote the thirteenth Rune of Kalevala:

Thereupon the Hisi-reindeer,
Juutas-moose with branching antlers,
Fleetly ran through fen and forest,
Over Lapland's hills and valleys,
Through the open fields and court-yards,
Through the penthouse doors and gate-ways,
In the court-yards of Pohyola,
Lapland-dogs began their barking,
Lapland-children cried in terror,
Lapland-women roared with laughter,
And the Lapland-heroes shouted.

Fleetly followed Lemminkainen,
Followed fast, and followed faster,
Hastened on behind the wild-moose,
Over swamps and through the woodlands,
Over snow-fields vast and pathless,
Over high uprising mountains,
Fire out-shooting from his runners,
Smoke arising from his snow-cane:
Could not hear the wild-moose bounding,
Could not sight the flying fleet-foot;
Now the hero, on his snow-shoes,
Hastens to the distant woodlands,
There to hunt the moose of Piru.



In the end, the moose is caught after it raids a province and the local populace is roused to hunt it (i.e. PD and commander catch the moose in a fight). And no, the women aren't lamenting. Moose-riding vaetti come to raid a village, and the women - roared with laughter? Now that's something to make a Finn proud. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Lemminkainen was overrated.

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Re: Sneaked moose??
 

You know, I think they meant SHOES.... moose leather. o.O Wacky game devs can get confused by these things, since we know computer programmers never wear athletic shoes. >.>


BUT actually, I think the idea is that the Vaetti are SO sneaky, that if anyone actually saw the meeses, they would just say "hey look, a herd of meeses", rather than getting all upset that the weird part is the little goblins riding around on them.

So it stands to reason: no goblins - no "moose riders".

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Ahh, the Kalevala. I must read it again. Such fine tales. I haven't read it in probably 15 years or so, but it is sitting out on my bookshelf, calling me. Lemminkainen, Vainimoinen, Kullervo. Such great heroes and villains.