What if Boots of Long Strides gave mapmove 2?

B0rsuk · #1 February 24th, 2008, 06:01 PM

...but, but if you GoR a spider warrior or a machakan hoplite, then those boots would surely triple his movement ! ;-)

Dedas · #2 February 24th, 2008, 07:44 PM

Maybe a far fetched idea, but the BoLS could give you a 50% chance of escaping/ignoring a assassination attempt as well as map move 2 or 3. What I mean is that if you can take "long strides" you could also take those strides away from your assassin. Although if your assassin is wearing them as well this bonus would be ignored.

Ironhawk · #3 February 24th, 2008, 07:45 PM

Yeah mapmove 3 sounds pretty good. Its not something you'd deploy for all your mages... but it would certainly have a niche use for moving your heavy duty mages to and from the front lines.

Arcaani · #4 February 24th, 2008, 08:03 PM

Hi, everybody!

Now, ummm, buffing stuff is all well and good, but wouldn't that make spells like Teleport (I'm not certain that is the spell's name) and Cloud Trapeze a lot less attractive than they currently are?

Amhazair · #5 February 24th, 2008, 08:27 PM

Not at all. First of all the range of teleportation spells remains infinitely longer than 'just' 3. They also ignore terrain restrictions, and, most importantly, they allow you to teleport on top of enemy armies before they can manage to move away in the movement fase. You'd have to come up with something really special to make teleportation spells obsolete.

triqui · #6 February 25th, 2008, 12:11 PM

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B0rsuk said:
...but, but if you GoR a spider warrior or a machakan hoplite, then those boots would surely triple his movement ! ;-)

If you give any of those units flying boots the effect would be greater.

I dont see it so "gamebreaking" and they might actually be worth doing once in a while. Currently they are just a useless icon in the forge magic item screen