Mod: Conceptual Balance Mod 1.6

[Bananadine]

I guess you probably also can't make unique commanders that any nation can summon, on the order of Queens of Elemental Air and so forth? Cuz if you could then there could be a Summon Clam Man spell that'd get you one of a limited number of immobile units that generated gems like clams do.

Okay I'll learn how modding works before I suggest anything more.

[Trumanator]

Originally Posted by Bananadine

Okay I'll learn how modding works before I suggest anything more.

Thank you. Too few people are willing to do this.

[Globu]

Hey, QM -- apologies if this has already been mentioned before (I did a quick thread search on it and found nothing), but I noticed the changes to Rams Head the White Satyr seem to have removed his ability to summon allies. Was this intentional?

(For anyone else interested in a quick fix without having to look up the unit ID in the database, for my own version I just added #makemonster5 230.)

[Burnsaber]

One thing that has bugged me for a long while has been the Artifact "The Sharpest Tooth", which advertises itself as being able to poison units that are poison-immune. Which is not true. The weapon is bugged and does not poison poison-immune units, which is a really nasty suprise if you forge it for some anti-SC usage.

Not a big deal, but I have had to share this bit of info on IrC twice already and the item is really misleading. Perhaps the next version of CBM could fix the description for the item and just say that it won't work on poison immune units because it's super-hyper-unlikely that the bug would be fixed.

[Sombre]

Sharpest tooth should just be AN damage with death poison, frankly, and say it is deadly to those not poison immune and dangerous to those that are.

[llamabeast]

It is quite easy to fix. You can have damage-over-time that is not poison, IIRC.

[Sombre]

Like from the bleed spell.

llama - while you are browsing - Cambridge this weekend? I can't remember if it was decided.

[militarist]

Bloodstone.. I believe it should be non-unique, but it just shouldn't generate gems. Making it unique, makes -1 earth boosters in game, whiсh is not good.

[Graeme Dice]

The bloodstone cannot have its gem production taken away. No new item can be made that boosts earth. The only two possibilities that are likely to be changed are either the pebble skin suit or the tome of gaia.

[Snowcat]

I am trying and also proposing a following modifications to
Late Era JOMON 1.6 CBM:

Mages:
Kannushi + 50% 1 death magic & +50% 1 elemental magic
(retains also 2 holy as previously)
(previously only 10% 1 elemental magic and 2 holy)
cost 120 gp (previously 80gp)

Monk of Fivefold Path cost 90g (previously 100gp)

Onmyo-Ji +10% death magic in addition to everything else (previously none)

Troops:
Samurai Archer goldcost 14gp (previously 12gp)
resource cost 20 (previously 23)
precision 11 (previously 10)

Samurai (Katana) resource cost 16 (previously 18)
str 11 (previously 10)
Samurai (Naginata) str 11 (previously 10)

O-ban str 11 (previously 10)

Aka-Oni goldcost 15gp (previously 14gp)

COMMENT:
Added death magic gives Jomon access to many small national
summons (which are more useful in the early game) and is also thematic, since death and ancestrual/spiritual magic had it's respected place in the Japanese/Asian religions.

The tweaks to troop selection make archers and other
samurais more even, so that it woulndn't make sense to
only recruit Aka-Onis and Samurai Archers.

Please give me feedback everyone and tell me what you
think of this. I would be especially interested in discussion
about minor (but oh how important!) tweaks to troop price/gold costs.

yours truly,
Snowcat =^.^=