Mod: Conceptual Balance 1.21

[Kuritza]

It's worse in the forests, but attacks can happen absolutely anywhere, including your own capitol. There are no domain or terrain restrictions afaik, except for attackers strength maybe.

[quantum_mechani]

On carrion woods: This spell only carries the vaguest resemblance to haunted woods, which I agree is extremely powerful. Carrion woods gives you a few manikins and gems in exchange for your population dying, haunted woods turns every singe unit that dies (friend or foe) in battles in your dominion into a manikin. I'm honestly not sure I'd cast carrion woods right away if I had the gems and pretender to cast it from turn 1.

On wild hunt: It is indeed forest only, or at the very least it was in dom2 and I've never seen it occur anywhere else in dom3. Given that, it seems rather niche, unless someone you are at war with has a capital in a forest. Still, I wouldn't mind bumping up research a bit if other's share your opinion.

On longbows replacing lances: That was a bug, I thought I fixed it in 1.21, but it may have slipped though.

On the trident: I send pretenders and mages into the arena mp, though I know I'm in the minority. I wouldn't mind boosting it a bit though.

[Endoperez]

Have you considered giving lance bonus to magical spears?

Also, I like CB more and more. I haven't played Dominions in a while, and when I started looking at it again I noticed how few pretenders really were useful. Anything compared to Prince of Death seemed so weak... I guess I'll try CB games when I get back to actually playing again.

[mathusalem]

Maybe you should restore Bone Grinding, my 8D mages spam it a lot and butchered there own army, unless there is a hint for prevent that ?

[TheMenacer]

I have to say that while making LA Agartha's top level necromancers capital only is perfectly fine because those guys are completely nuts, the second tier mages should be stepped up a bit because as it stands you're paying something like another 40 gold and taking a unit with old age for all of one level of priest magic, which is pretty situational. Something to make the choice between the two non-capital only necromancers a little less obvious would make sense I think, maybe more death/earth so that they could summon nearly as well as a ktonian necromancer, but no fire so they couldn't bust out the crazy evocations as much.

[quantum_mechani]

You have a point that the servant of the oracles doesn't have a lot of use as is... a d/e random might even things out.

As for bone grinding, I must admit I hadn't anticipated that being a problem. One doesn't usually have that high of death mages lying about without a script, and I would have thought the very high fatigue would discourage AI use in any case. If it's a common problem though, I could certainly change it back.

[tombom]

I'm almost certain that you've covered this before - and I'm not questioning your decision, because you're far better than me at this game - but what was the reasoning behind removing sacred from all Niefelheim's recruitables?