magic modding question

[Sombre]

That has been tried before in a couple of mods and works. 0 mapmove unit that you can summon which can then summon other units via domsummon, summon allies command, autosummon or by spells only it can cast.

The code for my Dogs of War mod includes a H6 unit who can summon unique commanders who then summon their individual troops. Paymaster - Captain - Troops. No gems involved, only high goldcosts to create upkeep.

[Edratman2]

Sombre, that's cool. I figured that a more accomplished modder would have tried the concept.

I searched for the Dogs of War mod without success.

Could you provide a link to it? Thank you.

[Sombre]

You can't find it because I haven't released it. It's like the Empire mod, it's got plenty of code written and quite a few graphics, but it just isn't at the stage I can even beta release it.

Don't know when I'll finish it.

[Edratman2]

OK. Thank you. Your confirmation that the concept is viable is more than enough to make me happy. New spells are fairly easy to write. The trick with doing it well is going to be balancing it.

My thoughts were to make it so it could only be cast by the highest mage, but Azeal's concept of a using a pretender appears to be much better. I am musing about the concept of having to choose between 2 or 3 pretenders that can summon this "altar" with a path/holy combination that is unobtainable any other way, and have this combination cost such that a double 9 bless is out of the question unless you go -3 on everything. Probably will not be a popular idea and would probably favor the nations with free temperature points.

Just my thoughts.

[Aezeal]

I still want most of the dwarves to be recruited in the normal fashion though and I'm pretty much against free summons that are powerfull since I think balance will be very hard end game.

It would've been great if it could be possible to have the need to unlock (search for) a site with a certain pretender to be able to use your powerfull units. Can it really not be done?

Or can it not be done to start without a temple.. without a starting temple you definately can never get your priest units reliably if you don't take a pretender with holy skills (and they don't exist except for the ones I'll be creating.)

Or just leave out the starting castle itself and raise a unique castle (can you have unique castles?) it with a cheap 1 E gem spell.

[Sombre]

None of that can be done.

I suggest you give the mod manual a read to get an idea of what's possible, or you'll just be wasting your time brainstorming.

[Aezeal]

I read it just keep hoping you know more