Balancing the blesses

[WraithLord]

MaxWilson said:

Python code attached.

-Max Wilson

Nice!!!

It should be possible to augment this to a full blown combat simulator. Would you mind if I take a shot at this, based on your code?

[MaxWilson]

WraithLord said:
It should be possible to augment this to a full blown combat simulator. Would you mind if I take a shot at this, based on your code?

Not at all. Do whatever you want with that code. I've actually thought about writing a combat simulator--the nice thing about games like Dom3 is that the rules are transparent enough that you could mostly replicate the battles--but I'm not sure how much interest there is. Be my guest, and email me if you need any help with Python.

-Max
wilson.max@gmail.com

[Sandman]

Does the death bonus affect map attacks as well?

[MaxWilson]

Sandman said:
Does the death bonus affect map attacks as well?

I think so.

Scenario: Anointed of Rhuax casting Fires from Afar.
Target: 70 Niefel Huskarls. Two runs of each scenario.

Blessed (D9 Prophet):
1 casualty, 8 afflicted.
0 casualties, 10 afflicted.

Unblessed (non-Prophet):
0 casualties, 1 afflicted
0 casualties, 5 afflicted.

I only ran it twice for each but it sure looks to me like it works. That probably also means that things like MR penalties from items and extra paths also work with map-cast spells.

-Max

[MaxWilson]

P.S. AFAIK, Seeking Arrow, Fires From Afar, Flames From the Sky, and Murdering Winter are the only map spells that damage military units and can take advantage of a D9 bless. Am I missing any?

BTW, Leprosy actually looks like a really interesting spell to use with Eye of the Void, Rune Smasher, etc. I wonder how many MP games feature diplomacy along the lines of "Leave me alone and I'll afflict one enemy army of your choice with disease. Otherwise I'll afflict you." Note to self: try out MP as soon as I graduate...

-Max

[Foodstamp]

Leprosy was a very powerful diplomacy tool in an MP game I played recently.

I was playing as Pangaea and Tien Chi invaded my lands. As they invaded my lands, Atlantis followed behind and gobbled up the Tien Chi lands and ventured into mine. In attempt to hold some of my former provinces, Atlantis massed quite a few troops in my former provinces even though we were at peace with one another.

I casted leprosy and on the same turn followed it with a message telling Atlantis to leave my rightful territories. To my surprise it worked pretty effectively. If Atlantis would have pushed the issue, I would have been hard pressed to stand against him after recovering from the war with Tien Chi.

So in that instance Leprosy worked pretty well as a message short of war.

[mathusalem]

about de D9 bless, don't forget the magic scale reduce MR of every body