Mod: Ul'Darath, The Great City. City of Dwarfs, Humans, and Giants.

[Thanatus del Dragos]

Fixed a few things, added a few things...

[mehrunes_dagon]

found spell bug: "Awaken Ancient Adviser" awakens monster no. 2727 who happens to be "Ancient Queen". Same problem with spell "Awaken Ancient Queen"

also had minor problems startin game, suggest change in spell descriptions

Under OS that distinguishes cases, 3 files are not recognized:

/Ul'DarathLApics/Ul'Darathbanner.tga - needs point between / and U

./Ul'DarathLApics/darathichanged.tga
./Ul'DarathLApics/darathichanged2.tga - case mismatch

Also i suggest change in spell descriptions

... caster is able to awaken the great Queen of an ancient area from his resting place...

should be 'her' instead of 'his'

"Create Craven army": description mentions one warrior, while spell creates 20

The whole thing looks interesting, i will probably playtest it

PS #ambidetrous directive in hero description is misspelled #ambidextrous?

[mehrunes_dagon]

dwarven smith are ACELENT earth mage? is that kind of slang or misspelled EXCELLENT?

and local defense is very weak compared to most vanilla nations, is that intended?

[Thanatus del Dragos]

Haha, thanks, I imagine there are a lot of spelling mistakes. The defense isn't suppose to be weak, should I increase the numbers or change the units? Or there might just be a mistake in how I put the defense in.

[mehrunes_dagon]

i did not calculate local defense strength, this is just my intuition

i suggest that you add some firepower (crossbows)

You may consult someone else's mod such as Warhammer dwarf mod

[Thanatus del Dragos]

I thought that I did, I tried to set it up so it is Dwarf Militia and Dwarf Crossbows. But the Crossbows are not showing up...

[Thanatus del Dragos]

I fixed it, I changed the numbers around, and now it works, there will be a 3 to 1 Militia to crossbow ratio. I think that will make a decent defence.

[mehrunes_dagon]

now some after-action report

put the mod into middle-era with mod-combiner, played against mighty AI

took undead titan with 9w-4e-4d-5n bless. Slowly killed Marignon with 4n bless; cast gift-of-health; researched evocation-6 and construction-4; was researching conjuration and carefully helping Vanheim beat Abysia. Vanheim took Abysia capital, found out that he was much stronger than me, and started killing me. I could not summon or hire enough mages, Vanheim had order-misfortune-productivity dominion, lots of territory and castles, so i surrended

Ul'Darath seems playable, probably has big potential late-game. Early-game, sacred commanders (Justicar and Priest King) fight independents, dwarven healers heal, and dwarven smith forge artifacts. The fun stops when opponents hire big armies or learn some offensive magic.

Unfortunately Vanheim prevented me from entering late-game. But i am sure Ul'Darath needs lots of research and resources, to be really dangerous.

To be competetive and interesting-to-play, Ul'Darath needs more summons or special magic. Maybe some Hinnom giants or angelic beings?

[Thanatus del Dragos]

I was thinking something like that. I was thinking of some kind of Ethereal version of the Dawn Guard, to be summoned. Also, I was thinking of creating more offencive magic to take advantage of the astral and death magic which they excel. The Archmages are so powerful, I hate to make them cheaper, so I think I should create more spells for them to use. And some kind of nature summons for the mystics to use, not sure on that one yet...

[Thanatus del Dragos]

I created the EA version of the Mod and it gave me some ideas for some more summons. I might add a few more later.