What about a trait (Sovereign and/or Champion) that allows units to get a little extra strategic movement (say 0.5 - 1) and thus isn't as OP as setting all units to one unit's speed?  So it could boost basic movement speed of each individual unit in a stack (like you'd imagine a hero could do), but remove the exploit of never again having to boost strategic movement of any other unit in a stack apart from the leader.

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Steven.

Organize should have just been changed to +1 move for all units. That way it can't be abused with a MrT Sovereign.

Still, removing this effect has pretty much made the +movement rings/amu completely useless. Unless you plan to shell out some 2-3k Gildar for 1 movement in an all hero army. Even then, it's better to use mounts.

sounds good, will be very happy to remove animations in tactical battles,

It's unfortunate that the Organized trait is being removed, especially since some other abilities don't even work right now (ie. Influencial racial ability).  But I am looking forward to the fixes to monster spawning and equipment cost corrections. 

The option to turn off animations in tactical battle is a good idea, but I do enjoy the animations--I just wish they weren't so god damned slow!!  I found that mounted units were dreadfully slow and annoying to play with because they couldn't take another action until the horse's animation finished, which took about 7 seconds    So is the only solution to turn off the animation completely??  I feel I'd be missing out on one of my favourite parts of this game.

Same here, deja vu, didn't I complain about this very thing last night? Wow, nerfed one day and removed the next, that was fast.

If they are working on road systems or improving movement in the game, etc. (whatever that means) then they should have delayed removing Organized until that was finished up. As it stands now, there goes the guaranteed "fun" talent, meaning that movement for the sovereign's army is finished; he's on his own, because money is much more rare now and you can't equip all the +1 movement rings/amulets on your heroes. Or just have him move at 1 or 2 speed for the whole game, which is no fun. I said it before, it might be overpowered, but complete balance in a game is not the way to make it fun.

I do appreciate yet another patch though, shows you guys are really working hard over there. I just don't agree with this change.

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2. Organized talent is being removed

Good riddance. Now instead of upgrading just the sov's speed, you have the strategic choice of investing in speed upgrades for the individual units.

Or this good suggestion

And make the game progress slower than play-by-mail chess   . OK, it feels kind of overpowered and may need some tweaking, but removing it completely - in the game's current state - would make progress too slow.

Has anybody played any multiplayer game? Can you give us the key-points  (how you find and select games, how you create games, if you can be spectator, etc.) ? I've only seen one post so far in the multiplayer section of the forums and since i can't play tonight due to lack of time, i have no idea how it works.

Was meaning to post something similar, about magic being too strong now.  I had one fire shard, with infernal I am able to destroy 8 units out of a 10 unit stack in the first turn with just my SOV.  Seriously being able to do ~30 damage to 9 tiles at a time is too much given current unit HP, basically I can destroy any army almost instantly. 

However, on a positive note enemy SOVs run away when I chase them with a more powerful stack now, which makes wars last a bit longer

Yeah, balance is an issue, and there's a lot of areas where it needs work; hopefully they already know this. I mean, a quick fix (which I'm only suggesting until they come up with a complete fix) is to make defenders attack FIRST (ala MoM). That will stop people from rushing out and there and fighting the big guys who have magic/abilities because your sovereign/heroes might be one-shot'd. Again though, that's a quick fix, not a serious solution. As strong as spells are, heroes and sovereigns need inherent magical defense (which should be a stat implemented in the game, maybe called "resistance") and heroes and sovereigns NEED a minimum health bonus each level. Maybe based on Constitution from your last level (keep increasing const, get more life next level). They need this because they're a joke to be honest, any high level monster can kill your heroes and sovereign unless you've pumped health into them; but if you've done that, they're still not strong fighting wise or magical wise.

Yeah, there's some issues to be addressed. Hopefully 1.1 will work on those major overhauling balance issues.

Every champion should act like they have Organised, that way an army led by one works better than one without.  Beneifit of having an anrmy led by a leader. 

yeah.  because there are soooo many options to increase the movespeed of summoned creatures and other non-human units.  let me just focus on casting +1 move on ALL units of that sort so that my army can have 3 whole movement points...

or i could just play without those sort of units, which would make this game have even less variety. 

have any more well thought out advice?   

Maybe the inability to increase their movement is the balance to their power? So the choice is trained units I can increase movement on but don't have specials they can cast and they cost wages, or summons that are cool and have specials and have no upkeep but are slow? Because honestly up to this point I haven't bothered much with mundane troops, just swarms of elementals.

really? imps are overpowered? spiders? drath?  no. 

(i admit that certain summoned units ARE very powerful, but not all of them, and even those that are potent early on tend become less powerful in the face of larger "group" units)

Where's a set of bagpipes when you need them?

*sheds some tears*

Organized, the game just won't be the same without ye!

I really don't like to see it go.  I hate that its being nuked without Pariden getting usable traits.

What he said.

Relax people, it probably won't take more than 5 seconds to mod it back in if you love it so much. The issue with it for me was that the AI wasn't putting it to any use. Personally I think it would have been better to buff the other traits (except for intimidate, that one is completely broken late game) and fix any stuff that isn't working, but eh... nerfing is easier I guess.

Please remove the 1 gildar upkeep for Study/Archivist.  If my starting city doesn't have a gold mine nearby, that kind of upkeep will cripple it at the start of a new game, imo.

Less fun? Not for me. Right now creating a sov. without organized feels like creating a sov. with a penalty. Now i´m free to try something different... 

lol I have a sov saved with the organized trait so !

Since 1.08, I've started over 10 games and they all came with either a gold mine or a lost library within 3 tiles of my starting position.

That won't help you if the code for Organize gets commented out.

There needs to be something like organized, but less powerful.  I like the idea that was mentioned, Forced March.

I would love to be able to designate who my stack/army leader is. I don't care if he is inexperienced, let there be a morale penalty or something.

Thanks for the info Frogboy, do you think also give the code need to create new data.zip files so change we make to tech trees will so in the game?

Fix the Warhammer!!!  It shouldn't be doing 24 as it was in 1.07 but it should not be doing 5 damage when the mace is already doing 6 damage in 1.08, should it?