March 23rd, 2004, 05:18 PM
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Re: Marignon CotS - What\'s the hook?
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Originally posted by fahdiz:
Why does a modded theme have to be "better" than its base theme?
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Because it costs design points.
If it were a 0 point theme, then it shouldn't be better or worse than the default theme - just different. But a 50 point theme needs better units or commanders to make up for the tradeoff you will have to make in pretender, fortress, scales or dominion strength to pay for those 50 points.
Also, if a theme has scale requirements that are bad for that nation (or bad in general, like Turmoil - still hurts more than the points it gives), then it should get more powerful theme units/commanders to make up for that too. This is why Blood of Humans is (almost?) universally regarded as weak - it has *worse* units than standard Abysia, for a point cost *and* an unfavorable scale requirement.
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People do not like to be permanently transformed and would probably revolt against masters that tried to curse them with iron bodies.
Pigs, on the other hand, are not bothered, or at least they don't complain.
-- Dominions II spell manual
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