If you could create a unit...

[Vicious Love]

Busy ripping off Games Workshop. Been at it for two days of tweaking, testing, and balancing. Results inconclusive. Desperately need expanded modding options, have jury rigged EVERYTHING. Will get back to you when have nagged semicompetent friend into making sprites.

That is all.

PS: Lord help us, they're in the vents!

[ April 15, 2004, 12:42: Message edited by: Vicious Love ]

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Wauthan:
Heh? Perhaps I should release my "Experiments" mod but then again it's an insult to game balance since I just use it to try out concepts.
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Gaeas Avenger - Female Nataranja in red bikini. Unarmed but with earth and nature magic. Switch for the Great Mother.

Say, is it possible to replace just the sprites for a pretender? No functional changes (and it would still look the same to other players). But I'd be a lot more willing to play the Earth Mother if she didn't look like this girl I slept with once....

[JaydedOne]

Originally posted by Cainehill:
Say, is it possible to replace just the sprites for a pretender? No functional changes (and it would still look the same to other players). But I'd be a lot more willing to play the Earth Mother if she didn't look like this girl I slept with once....

Sure. Just select the monster and then replace the two images with your own .tgas. Seems like it should be pretty simple to do, probably a minute or two of typing. And then, no more post-traumatic stress syndrome for you.

And I'm all about the Earth Mother as she is. That's pretty much the way I've always envisioned them and there's a lovely "Mama SMASH!" quality about them. In fact, I've got one running around in a game I'm playing now. At High Dominion, they're sort of fun.

[Thilock_Dominus]

A C'tis cavalry'ish thing. Something in between light and heavy cavalry. The C'tis will be riding on green big poisonious lizards. I'd made the animation and done some scripting, but I need illwinter to release script codes to change themes, I called it 'The Marsh riders'. Not specific original name but it fit nicely

Also a Draconis race to play with like they have in age of wonders series (don't hit me for that statement ) would be nice.


Thilock

[Baalz]

Instead of a new race, how about some new themes for the thematically challenged races?

Spider cult of Matchaka
Similar to Pythium’s serpent cult
Requires 1 growth scale
Looses witch doctors and sorcerers
Looses all spider riders, gains ability to recruit both kinds of riderless spiders, both of which are holy.
New unit Spider Queen. (Capital only) Stats similar to black spider, is also a standard bearer.
Looses Voice of the Lord
Gains Spider Priestess, (Capital only) 3 holy 2 death 2 nature 1 random
In a nutshell: Gains a mage with a random slot, but looses all non-capital mages. Should have some fun tactics with holy spider webbing squads. Supplies will be a big limmiter on the spiders because of thier size.

Mictlan Hell Bent
Requires 2 turmoil, non-positive luck scales, and heat +1. Starts with spell Summon Demon.
Mictlan has become controlled by the demons with which they consort.
Looses all wizard/priests
Jaguar, Eagle and Sun warriors gain berserk +3
New unit named Possessed – (Capital only) 3 holy 3 fire 3 blood – has demon flag, can summon small number of imp allies every round, can fly
New Mictlan Hunter 2 blood
New Demonologist 2 blood 2 random (elemental, linked)
In a nutshell: The possessed unit has a lot going for it, but is also very expensive and has a lot of roles to play. Should he summon imps, lead demonic troops, lead the holy troops or sacrifice blood slaves? The Mictlan Hunter is great blood hunter, however there is no easy access to jade knives, and no cheap blood sacrificers so keeping you domain will be more challenging. The demonologists should give Mictlan access to all the different demon summons, so with the added blood this will help compensate for the hit that turmoil will put in the size of the army.

[ April 15, 2004, 16:26: Message edited by: Baalz ]

[HotNifeThruButr]

Originally posted by Thilock_Dominus:
A C'tis cavalry'ish thing. Something in between light and heavy cavalry. The C'tis will be riding on green big poisonious lizards. I'd made the animation and done some scripting, but I need illwinter to release script codes to change themes, I called it 'The Marsh riders'. Not specific original name but it fit nicely

Also a Draconis race to play with like they have in age of wonders series (don't hit me for that statement ) would be nice.


Thilock

That'd be doable, you can have the flamer breathing fire like Fire Drakes, chargers acting like cavalry, slithers turn into scouts/assassins of some sort, elders become Air and something mages and Flyers become some sort of flying attacking. Hydras become... hydras. You've also got your heroes done for you.

Orc Shield Bearer

Abilities: -2 encumbrance, +2 morale, -6 atk skill, +2 def, causes poison when attacked with short weapons, double patrol effectiveness, 1/2 pillage effectiveness.

Cost: 9 gold, 28 resources

Equipment:
Gauntlet - -1 dam, 0 atk, 2 def, 0 length
Tower Shield - 4 prot, 3 def, 2 enc
Spiked crude mail - 13 prot, -2 atk, -2 def, 5 enc

Description: Shield Bearers are trainees that show an aptitude for survival and taking damage. This is measured by the amount and size of scars that a trainee survives in his first battle. While Shield Bearers aren't trained to inflict much hurt on the enemy, they can strike back with a heavy ironclad hand. Shield Bearers are often put in the Chest, the protector of the Heart.

Edit: Shield bearers now have a bonus in patrol and penalty in pillage

[ April 15, 2004, 23:35: Message edited by: HotNifeThruButr ]

[JaydedOne]

Originally posted by Thilock_Dominus:
A C'tis cavalry'ish thing. Something in between light and heavy cavalry. The C'tis will be riding on green big poisonious lizards. I'd made the animation and done some scripting, but I need illwinter to release script codes to change themes, I called it 'The Marsh riders'.

Actually, I don't know that you need to wait. I'm incorporating something similar for my C'tis mod. Just replace one of their units that you find to be redundant (I'm choosing the runner) by upgrading cavalry and go to town.