Mod: Gaea, Cradle of Forests (3.08 compatible)

[VedalkenBear]

My concern is that there is really no reason not to take really bad scales (like, LE Ermor bad) and have 10 Dominion, good Luck, and good Magic scales. IOW, you have very very little you need money for. (Like, buildings.)

And it feels very much like a hair-pulling issue with the commanders early. It's like a crapshoot to see when you get your first leader. Especially bad if (as in the first game I tried) your first Nymph dies while trying to seduce.

I would add in at least one commander at the beginning of the game who could move your domsummon troops around.

[Shovah32]

If your nypmh dies summon another, they arent expensive. How did your nymph die? Set far back and ordered to fire rearmost i have yet to lose any.

[Foodstamp]

To get the Nymphs and the Dryads, summon them. They are both conjuration 0 national spells.

Even with just the starting Ancient, you should start running into money issues as you progress, the Forest Zealots are free, but they cost quite a bit of gold upkeep (Kinda like the pangaea freespawns).

In my tests the Nymphs seemed to have an overwhelming chance of success seducing the independent commanders. In contrast, the good national commanders resist the seduction quite a bit. I am going to test this again, because admittedly I may have been facing commanders that are naturally resistant to this sort of attack.

Either way, the Nymph is gonna get overhauled. I am not trying to balance towards vanilla, but she is a bit too much. I am going to bump up her summon cost slightly, and I MIGHT take away enslave mind from her. If I do take away the enslave mind, I will probably give the nation "charm" at a lower research level to compensate.

Guys, have any of you received the multi hero "Force of Nature" yet? I am curious of how he performs as a supercombatant or thug.


Thanks for the great feedback. I am noting it for the next version of this mod. It is greatly appreciated and it inspires me to continue working on mods.

[BandarLover]

I like the Druid werewolf idea, but would hate to see you totally change your vision for this mod. I'm just a guy that likes variety. I don't care how crappy a unit is (O.K. besides militia) I generally recruit everything when playing. It just looks cool in a battle. I could definitely see animals easily getting in the mix, but you already have 'call animals' or some such spell in conjuration. Same thing with vine people. I guess I should brush up on some nature based fantasy for unit ideas. Besides elves, of course.

[Foodstamp]

Elves shall be avoided like the plague!

[HoneyBadger]

How about army ants? Nothing says "nature" like ants.

[BandarLover]

Now that's something. Perhaps large versions of insects (like ants or beetles) or other woodland animals. Think 'Night of the Lupus'with giant rabbits...uhhmm, on second thought don't, that was terrible. But I like the bug idea. To a point. We don't want this to turn into the unofficial insectoid race people have been clamoring for.