Mod: Epic Heroes Mod -Version 1.5 Released

[jutetrea]

Ah, didn't know it was only map commands. How about the permanently blessed status of a prophet? Or the dominion/HP affects? Do either have a mod command?

The idea being that there are all these new gods fighting for top, each religion usually has a High Priest or Priestess...a cult leader. The prophet somewhat takes care of that, but you could also use it as a "reason" for having epic heroes in the first place. Especially for highly religious nations. The prophet is "usually" just going to be some shlep, either an existing H3 which isn't unique or a normal commander/scout (occasionally a summons or existing hero). This way your "prophet" is an instant bada$$ and converts more folks due to his bada$$ery and sermons.

I disagree that the #spreaddom has to be on an infirm unit. It just has to be thematic, in literature it seems that just as many cult heads are young and charismatic as there are old and "wise". You might have one of those little 1F guys from Marignon suddenly see the face of god and go all apocalyptic. Just depends on the story. (which i suck at btw)

Just some thoughts, and since I'm not that experienced with unit building/mods just want to brainstorm a bit. It might possibly fill that "cool" unit ability for straight melee heroes, or you might say it has to be the old infirm guy because it gives him a big jump in early useability to have 2 prophets.

Just thinking, and liking where you're going with this.

[Endoperez]

There're no modding commands for permanent bless, or for making his hp dependent on dominion.

There are High Priests like that in the game. Pythium has Bartholomeus the Patriarch, Marignon has Carmont the Cardinal - both are very old, very strong priests and quite weak mages.

I agree that #spreaddom could also be used for other heroes which are built around the ability, but it's a powerful ability and should stay quite rare.

[jutetrea]

I agree it should be rare, but 1 extra unique unit may not be gamebreaking. I've ended up with 3 prothets via LA Ry'leh, unfortunately they spent half the time insane so that may be the difference.

Would be nice if you could mod it just to create the initial hero as THE prophet, preventing the addition of another till death/6 mo. Then the whole theme of a mod could be powerful high priests/esses assisting the pretender. Nations with infirm units would get H4 or H5 with low movement, hp, old age, medium magic and melee based units would get the H3 + normal heroics.

I'm clueless on sprite creation, how difficult is it to add a rider to an animal? i.e. could you grab the rider from a behemoth or a cave knight and just copy it over? For instance, iron dragons/tarrasques are powerful units but actually very limited singly...lots of hp, but slow and mostly average stats. Possibly heroize larger animals and throw a rider on them, leviathan/monster fish/shark/kraken, etc... the ideas been thrown around a bit but it might make a good starting chassis.

[Sombre]

With the new sprite extraction is very very easy to stick a rider on a new mount.

[Xietor]

Shortly, I will be posting the beta0.2 version that will include :

Mictlan, The Blood-Cursed Champion
Pangaea, Black Heart Treant

The Fallen Angel is going to have its 3s removed and its awe lowered from awe2 to basic awe.

Agartha's hero's descr. tweaked to conform to endoperez specifications, a couple minor typos fixed, and the age of the blood jarl increased.

Ulm will be next, but my pace of cranking out heroes will be a bit slower from here on out. I have no ideas for any of the water races, or the newest ma race. They will be the last 4 added. There are several other races I have no ideas on either.

[Xietor]

Beta version(0.03)

The purpose of this mod is to provide a unique epic hero for all 22 of the MA races. I am updating the beta version every time I have 2 new heroes to add. We are now up to 10 Eric Heroes:

1. The Black Phoenix, Abysis
2. The Obsidian Medium, Agartha(added by Endoperez)
3. The Monkey King, Bandar Log(added by Endoperez)
4. The Blood-Cursed Champion, Mictlan
5. Beowulf, Man
6. The Blood Jarl, Jotunheim
7. The Fallen Angel, Pythium(Bandar Lover's idea)
8. The Immortal Assassin, machaka
9. The Black Duke of Ulm, Ulm(Arrlen's original idea, modified a bit).
10. Black Heart Treant, Pangaea

[Xietor]

I need help getting a sprite for a mountain yeti. The closest thing in game that i can think of is white minotaur hero of pangaea, and he would need some serious work to look like a yeti.

[Xietor]

Also needs ideas for a Tinker. there is a gnome that is spr 345 that may work, but this one is soooo much better.

[Xietor]

lastly, i used the Treelord for a treant for Pangaea,
but this is more entish looking.

[Endoperez]

Xietor said:
I need help getting a sprite for a mountain yeti. The closest thing in game that i can think of is white minotaur hero of pangaea, and he would need some serious work to look like a yeti.

What about this? It's double-sized jpg of the real pic. Pale One torso, Troglodyte legs. It should be easy to remove the boulders if you want to, but you were talking about giving each hero a ranged weapon...