Black Company Mod

[lonewolf]

I like the mod's flavour.

That said, I have a leetle wishlist:

1) The icons need transparent backgrounds; dark or very pale units are ok, but coloured backgrounds make it difficult to count troops - and look awful on the battlefield.

2) Lighter infantry grunts with only one javelin, weaker armour and appallingly cheap: the BC books have lots of 'fake Black Company' soldiers around to take the heat, get killed, etc... they don't have to be very tough - they only need black cloaks... maybe even camp followers (like slave units) to act as cannon fodder.

3) Still feel uneasy with forvalaka armies... If they were to be an assassin alternative to scouts (with berserk?), I'd feel better.

4) I got Soulcatcher on turn 2 as someone prophesied earlier. Hmmm. Still reasonably susceptible to missile fire, and hence balanced. But she looks like a Black Witch! Argh, could you please give her a nice dark background at least?

Thanks for giving it such a good try. I'm looking forward to Version 2...

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by autolycus:

4) I got Soulcatcher on turn 2 as someone prophesied earlier. Hmmm. Still reasonably susceptible to missile fire, and hence balanced.

....until you give here a L2 construction Shield of Valor, Robe of Missile Protection, or Amulet of Missile Protection (Probably go for the Shield. Any Black Witch can make such one)

[Uh-Nu-Buh]

Got a lot of changes porposed in the Last day or so. I'm going to apply them and get the new Version uploaded. Some of the changes

--witch doctor: costs more, shld of accursed-->totem shield.
--fear for all units dampened
--new stealth units
--forvalaka made a stealth unit
--assorted others

[Uh-Nu-Buh]

I sent Illwinter the new Version of the Black Empire Mod. It should be in the Incomplete section, due to the graphics, soon. Some of the Major Changes:

2 new infantry units
forvalaka made stealthy assassins
1 new leader unit
1 new hero unit, Bonegnasher
3 new weapons
the Taken have been pared down in numerous ways:
--up to 2/3rd hit points gone
--some magic levels gone
--unholy priest powers gone
--armour reduced drastically
Black Witches cost more

Additionally, lots of small changes made for game balance--more or less ST, ATT, Cost in gold and resources, etc.

Enjoy!

[Kristoffer O]

It's up, but the zip has the same name so you wont noyice the difference unless you play it.

[Uh-Nu-Buh]

I will change the name of the Mod filename to reflect the Version, starting with the next upload. The next Version should be 1.0 (e.g. blackempirev1.zip). It should have compliant graphics, a mobile infantry unit, working national spells, and whatever changes people convince me need making.

It was mentioned a while back that the Mod could use a cheap militia type unit. That if the Black Infantry had it's javelins taken away and some lesser armor it would be extremely cheap and imitate the masses of faceless foreign and local troops that die in all the battles in the books. I thought about this, and decided that these foreign and local militia are already a part of the game via the independant militia and lt infantry that are available almost immediately from most conquered provinces. It struck me as redundant to add them.... I didn't want you to think I was ignoring the idea. I really did think about it. Thanks!

[liga]

Is that mod still downloadable ? Which name ?

Liga