Awesome

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by vfb

But but but ... how can you omit Glam Metal? Singers should have glamour (obviously) and maybe air magic with a confusion-causing song attack.

Plus hordes of Maenad groupie fans!

Yeah, like I said my metal-fu ain't perfect. Do not really know glam metal, can't even really name any bands.

And yeah, there will definately be maenad groupies. I was also thinking of this summon for "Yoko Ono" with seduction. :P

[Leonnn]

Don't forget about Eddie (Iron Maiden).

He should be an undead lich-like hero, or maybe a summonnable.

[vfb]

Originally Posted by Burnsaber

Yeah, like I said my metal-fu ain't perfect. Do not really know glam metal, can't even really name any bands.

(snip)

Lucky you!

Examples: Poison, Ratt, Whitesnake :P, I'm not exactly a fan, it was just pretty much unavoidable in the 80's. If it wasn't for the lovely potential for some Maenads, I wouldn't have brought it up.

Hey, how about a Rob Zombie hero that freespawns soulless?

[BandarLover]

I stumbled upon a page that might help you with the different genres of metal and what bands are considered the pioneers of said genres and what notable bands followed.

http://www.metalcrypt.com/genres.php

Hopefully the link works

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by BandarLover

I stumbled upon a page that might help you with the different genres of metal and what bands are considered the pioneers of said genres and what notable bands followed.

http://www.metalcrypt.com/genres.php

Hopefully the link works

It works and is awesome. Thanks. This will help with those gatgories I'm not familiar with. I like the list of Grindcore bands, I need the hear if they're really as disgusting as their notorious reputation.

I was thinking of making a skeleton mod for this next-week, not really playable (only 1 Singer and the troops by Elmokki). But it'd work as base if people really want to add their own ideas (I'm not really expecting anything like that to happen, but I'm positively suprised by the intrest in this project).

Rock on.

[Sombre]

You can modify sounds for the entire game,... but do so only with obscure sounds, then reference them from this mod. So yes, in that sense you can pack sounds in a mod.

[BandarLover]

Played a quick game with the mod and it is ridiculously awesome how fun it is, even in it's bare bones state, to send throngs of metal fans rushing into armed soldiers while metal singers fling lyrical death from afar....though it helps to have a vivid imagination.

Love the band references in the unit description text. Nice flavor! And kudos on the unit pics, both Burn and elmokki.

One idea, and feel free to dismiss it, was to have the nation play similar to LA Ermor or Foodstamp's wonderful Cradle of Gaia mod: Have no recruitable units, save for the singers, who can then autosummon or be set to summon their respective fans, denoting the inherent charisma of the singers. It would be an interesting way to set this nation even more apart, though I imagine it could become micro-management hell.

That's all for now, getting late. Rock on everyone!!

[Gregstrom]

Here's a rough work-up for St. Anger - probably a unique summon or hero.

"When people first come across St. Anger, they're likely to dismiss him as just another invisible kid. After a while in his vicinity, they soon come to the conclusion that he is some kind of monster. Of course, he's always gone by the time the pitchfork-wielding mob arrives. While descriptions of him are vague at best, almost as if witnesses only saw him through a dirty window, they all recall his catchphrase "I have the unnamed feeling that this is my world". In combat arrows always seem to miss him, and are met with the jeer "shoot me again!"

Stat-wise...
Size 1
Assassin
Stealth +20?
Weapons: Strangle, fist
Air Shield - 80%
Ethereal
Berserker, maybe.

The unit sprite could be a slightly blurred, misty-looking figure with no distinct details - just a greyish figure.

[BandarLover]

Bit of a shameless bump, with a modding question thrown in for good measure.

Is it at all possible to copy the 'Call god' mechanic? I pretty much know the answer is NO but was curious because I thought it would be cool, instead of doing the same old summons, have the singer commanders 'Call' varying monsters of metal, each progressively stronger than the last.

[Sombre]

No.