Mod: Mirror Match Game

[Dragar]

I'm keen

[Lingchih]

Hmm. Looks like this actually filled up. Shall I make a pretender?

[rdonj]

I'm a bit overloaded atm but I will try to play anyway. I will try to have a pretender worked up by the end of today.

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by DrPraetorious

I'm going to do a mirror match game. The six positions are *exactly the same* and I'll be using the symmetrical six lands map. It'll be an IP game hosted at Gandalf's server.

The current gen of the mod is here:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=41453

But I'm going to make some minor tweaks and dump in some spells - they will be blood and death spells that will let you use blood and death on your pretender relatively easily, but there will be no direct changes to the current pretender designs available. The blood spells will summon blood casters, and the death spells will summon death casters who are also undead priests.

Notice that the mod includes a variant of CBM.

Ideally we'd start playing sometime in the week of Jan 5. There are only six slots (and I'm taking one.)

Red - DrPraetorious
Orange - rdjonj (?)
Yellow - qio
Green - Lingchih
Blue - chrispedersen
Purple - Dragar

fabulous pink alternates:
JimMorrison?

Where are we in this setup? And can you explain a bit about the death and blood - aka - will all pretenders even without death blood paths be able to cast these death/bloods spells you mentioned drp?

[DrPraetorious]

The breakpoints for the blood and death are 4,6 and 8 and 10 points in the respective paths.

4 blood gets you a 1 blood caster/priest for 12 slaves.
6 blood gets you a 2 blood caster who is also either a wizard or witch for 30 slaves.
8 blood gets you a fallen angel for 88 slaves and some research.
10 blood and 4 nature lets you cast Carrion Woods for 90 slaves.

4 death gets you a necromancer, who is a wizard/undead priest 1 for 12 death gems (he's not a heretic and has ice power rather than fire power and slightly different magic). This is a notably better deal than a specter. He's not inanimate or ethereal or anything though.
6 death gets you a risen lord, who is a passable thug/(inanimate) undead priest 2 for 30 death gems. This probably a better deal than a mound fiend, wraith lord or bane lord, but that depends somewhat on your bless.
8 death lets you summon a risen bishop, who is just an inanimate undead priest 3 and only has the one job, for 20 death gems.
10 death and 4 astral lets you open the soul gate for 90 death gems and some research. The various spectral legionaires are replaced with spectral versions of the common national infantry. Enjoy.

If anyone objects I won't add this stuff - I don't intend to use it on my pretender and I'm still playtesting it a bit.

I'm going to post a revised mod wednesday, and start the game Friday or so?

[Lingchih]

Sorry, I think I'll have to bail. I forgot about this game, and ended up subbing permanently in another. This would be one over my limit.

Looks like fun though. I'm sure you can find a replacement.

[chrispedersen]

cool. are there anyother CBM components? Nat heroes, modified pretenders etc?
Should we make pretenders only with your mod (aka, significant variance?)

[DrPraetorious]

There are a few other CBM components built in, yeah. Most of them that are not nerfs are included, I can post specific documentation if-need-be, but most of it shows up in-game.

[Dragar]

are we looking for a Lingchih replacement? Jim?

[chrispedersen]

It seems that only the rainbow pretenders have the path boost.
Also, it looks as if only the fountain and oracle reflect cbm changes...

is that right?

Do to personal reasons beyond my control, I'm going to have to not join this game. Sorry Dr. P