Questions about National Heroes

[st.patrik]

I have a couple of questions about national heroes - you know the guys who randomly show up at your castle and volunteer to help out:

1. Are there any new national heroes in Dom II, or are they exactly the same as in Dom I?

2. Do you get the same heroes no matter what theme you're playing, or are there theme-specific heroes?

3. Do you need a positive luck scale to have national heroes offer their services? If so, does it make a difference how far the scale is tipped - i.e. are you just as likely to get a national hero with luck +1 as with luck +3?

With regard to the latter, I've read people saying that in Dom I you need to have a positive luck scale in order to get your heroes, but I didn't find this to be true. In fact I found my national heroes showing up just as often with luck 0 as with luck +3. How is it in Dom II?

[ October 03, 2003, 04:42: Message edited by: st.patrik ]

[Nerfix]

I'm not betatester or anything, but:
1)Yes
2)Theme specific Heroes would make sense
3)I don't think so, unless this has changed from Dominions I. Getting Heroes is a "good event" so i think Luck scale does affect getting Heroes.

[Pocus]

I think too that National heroes shows up more frequently in positive scale, but I remember an occurence where I had luck -3 and got one.

[ywl]

Originally posted by st.patrik:

3. Do you need a positive luck scale to have national heroes offer their services? If so, does it make a difference how far the scale is tipped - i.e. are you just as likely to get a national hero with luck +1 as with luck +3?

With regard to the latter, I've read people saying that in Dom I you need to have a positive luck scale in order to get your heroes, but I didn't find this to be true. In fact I found my national heroes showing up just as often with luck 0 as with luck +3. How is it in Dom II?

In Dom 1, I think that you have to have at least Luck-1 to have any national heroes. Or is it luck larger than -1? Anybody can confirm?

[PvK]

Someone just said they had luck -3 and got a hero. I expect it effects the chances, as would make perfect sense. I think I have luck 0 in my current game, and got one fairly early, and a long long time later, a second one.

PvK

[Daynarr]

Well, I'm playing with luck -3 all the time lately and total number of special heroes I've got is exactly 0! So I would say that luck scales have effect in Dom II.

As far as new heroes is concerned, since you have new nations its logical they will have new heroes. Old ones seem to have all those from Dom I (maybe changed a little) and probably few new ones, but I not 100% sure because of -3 luck scales ( ) and the fact I haven't played Dom I enough to compare.