How strong will Dragons be NOW?

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as end-game army sizes get tweaked, and questing and balance get worked on ... and all those other little things between now and gold, I have to wonder how strong a Dragon will be.

Will they be the same kill-hundreds of peasants strength like we had heard in the beginning?

And if that is the case ... I wonder how much stronger faceless "mook" soldiers can get from a simple peasant.

 

Will a Dragon still be much stronger than a unit of 22 elite death knights? Or will 22 death knights and a Dragon be about par (with flying + fire-breathing giving an edge to the dragon)?

 

Assuming that groups have separate attacks, and non-additive defense (5 guys with 30 attack and 10 defense have 5 attacks of 30 and 1 defense of 10) ... then my shot-in-the-dark guess for a Dragon would be 500 HP, 40 attack, and 30 defense.

 

 

//If, however, units are additive (5 guys with 30 attack and 10 defense, have an attack of 150 and 50 defense) then my first guess would be a dragon having either A. 2000 HP, 60 attack, and 50 defense .. or B. 500 HP, 600 Attack, and 450 defense

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Either way, I would beseech that you perfect "how strong" a Dragon is first (and extensively determine its relative utility) ... and THEN determine how easy/hard one is to attain.

Rather than the reverse.

 

Some games have Dragons that are "Mid-game" dragons, yet aren't available till the end of the game. (which makes them useless) //a good example is FFH2 Ice

Another trap is to make a "holy hand grenade" that is too easily accessible.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

I hope that 'persons' in units each get their own attack and defense roll - so a group of 22 should make the pc roll 22 times on attack and defense.

 

And speaking of FFH2 ice guys - the dragon was fun, not as strong as he could be ... but give him orkus axe and he gets strong fast. What I really didnt like was Auric Ascended ... looks amazing, awesome stats ... but couldn't level up, which made him one of my weakest units.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

eh, I don't just mean Drifa ... I mean Acheron, Abashi, Eurabatres.

possible fixes to make Abashi and Eurabatres worth Divine Right would be to either give them Hero promotion or the extra strength the get in other modmods (like Rife) w/ Monstrous Creature promotion.

Heh, in early non-released versions of Magister Modmod, the top 2 Dragons could "fly" to any tile in the world as a "full turn" action. Although its really morel like they entered orbit and crashlanded cause it used the ICBM coding and animation (without the explosion ofc)

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

I have no doubt that each person will attack seperately, as in GalCiv 2.  Otherwise there would be no point in elite units - you could just tech up on squadrons and peasant spam.