Haida Gwaii Mod (This round of beta closed)

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HoneyBadger said:
Ok, I've actually got an idea for an SC Pretender for Haida (my personal favorite.) called the Moby.

I found a beautiful picture of a grey sperm whale, so I'm going to get you a picture of that, and I'll do all the work to get atleast the picture mod-ready.

Off the top of my head, I'm thinking a huge amount of hp (300 or more), good natural protection, size 6 trampler, a bite attack, massive str, good combat movement and 3 province move, poor def, poor perc, fair to decent MR, natural rejuvenation, 5% regeneration (maybe) and a cold aura-to represent a wake. 100% resistant to cold, 50% resistant to poison. Good supply bonus. No starting paths (alternately, 1 path water), 3 misc item slots, aquatic only (if possible, unable to ever leave the water, even wearing an amulet of the fish). 80 points to increase. Not too expensive, maybe even 0 points if it has no water path, since it's not too different from an Ancient Kraken, only with less ability to gain magical paths.

It'll fit an aquatic nation, but Haida is a land nation and I can't imagine an "amphibious" whale

[HoneyBadger]

Yes, but they also get most of their food from the ocean and it's technically an amphibious nation.

I don't think that every single Pretender has to share every single physical quality with it's worshippers, even considering Roleplaying, do you?

That would kind of preclude flying Pretenders worshipped by human nations. A whale Pretender is certainly something the Haida reasonably might worship, just as certain south-seas cultures worship a great shark, others equate the Devil with a giant manta-ray, quite a few cultures consider the salmon to be holy, and many, many cultures worship the alligator/crocodile.

Having a purely aquatic SC Pretender gives the Haida a strategic choice also, enabling them to expand underwater more easily, perhaps on the level of Agartha.

[HoneyBadger]

That and, as stated above, I really like SCs. There aren't enough true SCs in the game.

[Amhazair]

HoneyBadger said:
I don't think that every single Pretender has to share every single physical quality with it's worshippers, even considering Roleplaying, do you?

Absolutely not. What will happen however when someone selects this pretender, starts his game, and the huge whale ends up in a land province? (the nations capitol)

[HoneyBadger]

Good point, further consideration is obviously needed.

[HoneyBadger]

Is there any way to make a province that works as both Land and Water-basically an amphibious province? I could definitely see this as being the reasonable quality of a given province-type.

[Foodstamp]

How about a whale in a magical water sphere? At the very least it would be an interesting looking unit

[XiahouDun]

Like a hamster ball?

[HoneyBadger]

That's a possibility, and get rid of some misc slots, but I'm looking into the possibility of a province which would allow both land only and water only beings to travel across it. Then maybe a special map that uses such a province as Haida's starting province. How does that sound?