Oceania - Let's fix it. Mod discussion

[llamabeast]

Right! I have been working this evening on a nice apocalyptic end-game battlefield enchantment. Code below.

It is meant to represent a powerful ritual to bring the wrath of the sea to the battlefield. The skies open, rain pours down in torrents, visibility is reduced to a few yards, the ground turns to mud, and from all sides the power of the sea itself descends to crush the enemies of the Oceanians.

I envisage it being maybe a research-8 spell in one of enchantment, alteration or conjuration. It would need quite high caster level, maybe water-6.

What it does:
- Storm
- Mist
- Quagmire
- Summons water elementals from all sides. Initially large elementals will come (in the first round or two it looks crazy). However, quickly the torrent will be reduced to just a few smaller elementals each turn. After 9 turns nothing more will come (hence it's not exploitable).

The spell looks potentially overpowered, but I don't think it is really. I haven't carefully tuned the number of water elementals, but I think they would not be a huge issue for a magically prepared late game army. In fact a mid game army could fend them off well enough I think.

Note that in the code the spell is trivial to cast, and not restricted to Oceania, so that it is easy to test.

Code:

#newspell
#copyspell "Storm"
#name "Oceanian Quagmire"
#school -1
#effect 81
#damage 85
#nextspell "Mist"
#end

#newspell
#copyspell "Summon Water Elemental"
#name "Oceanian Small Elementals"
#school -1
#effect 9043
#damage 412
#nreff 5
#nextspell "Oceanian Quagmire"
#end

#newspell
#copyspell "Summon Water Elemental"
#name "Oceanian Medium Elementals"
#school -1
#effect 3043
#damage 410
#nreff 3
#nextspell "Oceanian Small Elementals"
#end

#newspell
#copyspell "Living Water"
#name "Oceanian Large Elemental"
#school -1
#researchlevel 0
#effect 2043
#damage 408
#nreff 2
#nextspell "Oceanian Medium Elementals"
#end

#newspell
#copyspell "Storm"
#name "Coming of the Flood"
#school 0
#researchlevel 0
#path 0 2
#pathlevel 0 1
#fatiguecost 100
#nreff 5
#nextspell "Oceanian Large Elemental"
#end

(note the nreff 5 is not a mistake, it seems to be needed for the summons to work correctly)