New Water Spells

[tinkthank]

People seemed to feel there is a need for expanding water skills, here are some ideas from your humble servant TT.

1. Dance of the Rainmaker. Ritual Spell, cannot be cast underwater. 4 Water gems. Increases Growth in a friendly land target province.

2. Warm Waters. Ritual Spell. Can only be cast underwater. 3 water gems. Increases Growth in a friendly water target province.

3. Steam. 2 water gems, 200 Fatigue. Affects entire battlefield. Requires 3 water, 1 earth. Evocation or Alteration. Causes small cracks to appear on the battlefield, through which boiling steam will surge up. Randomly damages squares on a battlefield with steam damage.

4. Waterfall Flood. A mage can channel waters into a sudden flood which can affect 5+ squares on the battlefield, prec 0, range 25+. Units in the affected squares have a chance of being washed away (treat as: Trample) or immobilized as they attempt to hold their balance against the flood. Aquatic units are immune to this spell.
EDIT: Treat as Trample from a size 6 unit. Perhaps Aquatic and Amphibian units are treated as having a size+3 bonus (thus small units might still be knocked away in the flood?)?

Feel free to comment, flame, and add your own ideas.

[ June 05, 2004, 12:37: Message edited by: tinkthank ]

[Vynd]

These are all pretty cool. I especially like the idea of flooding spell that tramples people. That's nifty.

[Cohen]

The problem of Growth enhancing pop spells is that soon your dominion will kill grwoth.
So it's better to pump the population of a fixed percentage with that spell.

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Cohen:
The problem of Growth enhancing pop spells is that soon your dominion will kill grwoth.
So it's better to pump the population of a fixed percentage with that spell.

I think it's better to leave it as it is. The main purpose I see in these 'growth' spells is to provide supplies to campaigning armies, and the supplies you get from a province is strongly correlated to its growth scale. Moving your troops to a province that hosts a Well of Pestilence, and lacking Bags of Wine? Cast, and voilà!

[Cohen]

The time you move your army away, you have cast the spell.

I believe the problem of grwoth scale isn't supply, but too slow birthrate of people.

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Cohen:
The time you move your army away, you have cast the spell.

FYI, you can cast at province X and order your troops to move to X in the same turn. When your troops arrive next turn, the spell has just been cast and the growth scale has increased - just what you wanted to achieve.