Standard special ability, totally pointless?

[Endoperez]

Teraswaerto said:
In a highly magical world like that of Dominions heroes would have some kind of magic power usually. Most will be mages, some will have unhuman blood in them, etc.

Human heroes should not have superhuman HP across the board, and not all heroes should be on the level of Etimmu, but there's no real reason that human nations must have strictly human heroes. Perhaps, for example, there could be an Ulmish hero with a titan for a grandaddy, gifted with superhuman size and strenght. All Ulmish heroes shouldn't be like that though.

EA (perhaps MA) Arcoscephale, Pathos the Son of Titans, size 2, Awe, extreme stats compared to a human but still not a thug.

Sorry for posting so many posts, especially so many LONG posts in this thread. It seems I'm having troubles communicating my appreciation of the fluff parts of the game in thread focused on whether or not the mechanics work as some would prefer.

[alexti]

About national heroes. National mages vs Hunter of Heroes:
Moritasgus - RIP - died of natural causes.
Headless - RIP - froze to death (self-inflicted).

In some nations - everybody is hero

[mivayan]

alexti said:
About national heroes. National mages vs Hunter of Heroes:

The Maverni E2S2?2 Druids beat up the hunter? That's pretty cool. Scripted to do what, exactly?

[Teraswaerto]

A single Paralyze or Soul Slay would do it, with some luck. Of course, anyone can survive Horrors if you give them serious bodyguards, ether warriors or something like that.

[alexti]

mivayan said:

The Maverni E2S2?2 Druids beat up the hunter? That's pretty cool. Scripted to do what, exactly?

I've scripted few of them to Petrify (just for fun). Others are scripted as battlemages (blade wind etc). The problem is that HoH just doesn't want to attack. HoF is full of druids, but still no attacks. I wonder if HoH is aware of prepared petrify and prefers to wait for more agreeable heroes