Effect of Hot/Cold scales

[Vicious Love]

Pretty sure temperature only directly affects warm-blooded units at heat/cold 3. The levels in between affect income and supply, ice armor, heat and chill auras, and all sortsa spells, but do not increase warm-blooded units' encumbrance.

[JayThomas]

Yes, +3 heat scale produces a +2 penalty to encumberence to human troops.

Thanks.

[TwoBits]

Regarding hot/cold scales, is it true that they have no impact in water provinces?

[Edi]

Yes, it's true. At least it was in Dominions 2 and I have no reason to assume the mechanics were changed.

Cold-blooded creatures suffer encumbrance penalties in heat/cold 0 and colder, i.e. they need heat 1 at the minimum to get no penalties.

It also occurred to me that the mod command #iceprot<bonus> that sets icearmor effects could be used in reverse by applying a negative number to the bonus. So #iceprot -2 would increase armor protection in hot provinces and decrease it in cold provinces.

Edi

[Hellboy]

TwoBits said:
Regarding hot/cold scales, is it true that they have no impact in water provinces?

Wow, this is surprising (well, to me, anyhow). Are you saying it has no impact on anything (including economy?), or just that it has no impact on encumbrance?

[Edi]

No impact on economy or supplies, afaik. This is not mentioned in the manual, but it worked that way in Dom2 and presumably remains so in Dom3. Don't know about encumbrance, it is possible you will get that penalty in the seas.

Edi

[Gandalf Parker]

But be aware that it isnt "water nations" but "water" itself which seems to avoid the affects. So your amphibian units will not only take a hit for being on land, but all of the temperature affects also. That takes a weak unit to barely moving. So unless you can be sure of attacking outside of your dominions and then quickly building land units, you can really force yourself into a corner.

Of course for defensive playing, or larger maps, it can be a useful thing to take harsh temps as a water nation.