Re: Christmas Wish List of Features! Dear Kriss Kringle ;)
I will pick one from Zen's and two from HJ's as being most desirable to me.
I would like archer friendly unit behaviors. I'm not totally sure what Zen meant by this, but I would love it if my magi and archers were to consider the relative odds of harming my own units and compare that with the odds of harming enemy units...and NOT FIRE if they don't have at least twice the chance of helping as they do of hurting. Too many times I see my archers firing into my own units when there are about 20 of my units and only about 3 or 4 enemy units, each one of which is inferior to every one of my 20 units. Once I had a mass of Ctis light infantry...and it rather destroyed itself with inaccurately thrown javelins. Different folks may have different preferences here. For me, it makes no sense to hurt your own troops with friendly fire in order to kill off retreating independents, which is something I have seen happen.
From HJ's list, it would be wonderful to have a detailed list of combat losses in the battle summary. Perhaps even listing the commanders by name...Hunerik the Master Smith...etc. They could be detailed by icons if that would be easier to program.
It would also be great to enable/disable certain spells. There are some spells which are so inaccurate early in the game that their casting generally does more harm than good in my estimation.
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