Conceptual Balance Mod 1.5

[Sombre]

How about making Pythium's emerald guard poison immune? It would make them a perfect compliment to hydra (the other mapmove 1 heavy) and a bit more exciting. It could easily be justified - the eastern provinces of rome often featured stories about how people had eaten poisons at a young age and become immune (the most famous being mithridates of Pontus) - they could be the imperial food tasters as well as bodyguards.

[chrispedersen]

Why does pythium need a boost at all?
Additionally, they the empire legion were the guardians of the emperor... I can't see it as thematic.

Clouds of billowing poison.. dangerous creatures... and you're toting around tonnes of armor?

[Gregstrom]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Clouds of billowing poison.. dangerous creatures... and you're toting around tonnes of armor?

Wouldn't you?

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by Gregstrom

Wouldn't you?

Nooo.. if I were elite troops, I would be telling the grunts to handle that god foraken creature.

[Sombre]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Why does pythium need a boost at all?
Additionally, they the empire legion were the guardians of the emperor... I can't see it as thematic.

It wouldn't really boost pythium and that isn't the point - it's more to give emerald guard a more defined role and increase tactical choice. That's what cbm is all about.

I don't really understand the additionally part. I don't think it presents any strong theme problems. Maybe poison res would make more sense than poison immunity on that front, but man poison res can be a pain in the *** to actually make use of. It definitely wouldn't help using them with hydrae.