New Version of Ashikaga Here

[Potatoman]

New in this release:

• Authentic Samurai and Ninja names for commanders.
• Major rebalance of Samurai Horsemen and Ninja units, by popular demand.

You can click the link in my sig to download the latest Version of the Ashikaga Shogunate mod. I will continue to support the mod as long as Illwinter keeps releasing new patches for Dominions II.

I hope the changes to Ninja and Samurai Horsemen will remedy some of the balance issues people have commented on with my mod, it would be awesome to see it get some competitive play.

[MythicalMino]

thanks...this will be the next nation i play after the game i just started....

[Slygar]

this looks really cool. I havent tried it yet, just looked through the mod file, but tell me: How come there are no armor-wearing Samurai..? All had prot 0.

Thanks!

[Scott Hebert]

I have a few questions, Potatoman, about this really well-done and polished mod.

First, why are the Mahotsukai death mages? I would have thought they would be blood mages, instead. Thinking a little farther, what do you think of perhaps a Mystic analog for Blood? 3 random Elemental magic, and 2 Blood? It'd be really quite versatile for the Elemental Blood Summons, in keeping with the Mahotsukai tradition, and suitably priced (200g, perhaps?) wouldn't overshadow Mictlan.

A second question I have is the generally high cost of the mages. The Karasu Tengu seems a little pricey. Granted, it's Sacred, and it has a double-random, but a base encumbrance of 10 is way too high for any kind of combat mage, IMO. The Mahotsukai, OTOH, are even worse (arguably). They get no random picks. The Adept has similar magic rankings to 100g mages, and yet cost 170g. I note their high precision, and high base protection, but it still doesn't seem to be worth that much. The Master has similar issues, but the guaranteed Fire/Water pairing is probably worth it.

Anyway, just a couple of questions. I look forward to a discussion regarding them.

Scott

[Potatoman]

The Mahotsukai are death mages because it seemed more thematic to me, and because at the time I was working on making a second mod of a heavy blood using nation. Unfortunately my hard drive was wiped after it caught a virus and that mod is pretty much dead.

The mages cost so much because of all the people telling me they cost too little earlier. I'm not a competitive Dom 2 player, so I rely on other people for balancing suggestions. They originaly cost 300 for the master and 100 for the adept.

The Karasu Tengu cost so much because 1/3 of them will be able to cast the Ashikaga nation summons, the Aka/Ao-Oni and Obakei Yurei. They need 2n 2f/w/d, as specified in the readme file.

Samurai should be wearing armor. Their 0 prot is probably due to a known bug with the modding system which causes Dom2 to ignore custom armor and weapons after you start a game, exit to the menu, then re-enter the game. Try re-loading dom2.

[Taqwus]

Originally posted by Slygar:
this looks really cool. I havent tried it yet, just looked through the mod file, but tell me: How come there are no armor-wearing Samurai..? All had prot 0.

The 'prot' stat in the .dm file corresponds to the innate, basic protection of that unit; likewise for the other stats. Protection, encumberance, defense penalties et al from the armor (e.g. 'Yoroi') are factored in afterwards.