Hum, axies and allies have less to do with each other. And that's TI not TE ;) (Twilight Imperium) There's no real teamplay in TI, but the political part is really really important.
Just for my curiosity .. where did you stop your reading? Because I agree with you that the first part is more than annoying. But once the fellowship reaches the moria.. then it begins to show what this story will be about. I've a book (thick, with lots of little words and without pictures :-P) that explains what is the inspiration of Tolkien, what kind of symbol is the ring and what the story is about. This saga is really epix because it doesn't really tell about a good guy and a bad guy. It
While I couldn't care less for "lovely prose", I really don't know what you're getting at with "interesting characters" or "attempts at novel twists"; In both these departments, Eddings is god. At least compared to Tolkien; "This is Frodo. He's a hobbit. He's got a ring. And that guy over there, he's evil, and wants the ring." O_o. Did you read Lord of the rings or did you just saw the films?
And why not making retreat depend on the cavalry? They were mostly used to pursue thoses who retreated. Cavalry shouldn't be the "best" unit like it's often the case. Cavalary has some pros like being fast, being able to flank (and that's why we need flank/rear bonuses to attack and maluses to test of morale). If the enemy army retreat and you don't have any cavalry then they can retreat with only minor loses (like some units losing health. It should'nt be leave or die. Is a unit is f
Glad you enjoyed it !
I came with an idea : how about giving a "flag" to each research like "military, cultural, enhancement, etc.." Then when you do some actions in game you earn "military" or cultural" or "etc" points that would speed the research of the same flag. For instance : You're researching "bear cavalry" (;)) each time you win a battle you earn some insight to how handle them. Then you earn some bonus point sin bear cavalary researcdh beacaus eit has the flag "military" and a battle won
And why not begining with a big landscape? That woud have the same effect without coding anything more.
[quote]A player who wants to design a horse mounted knight will need to have researched animal husbandry which lets them train horses. They will need to have a city that has used one of its tiles to make use of a herd of wild horses on the map. They will need a mine on a metal deposit to create the armor. And once they have all those things, it'll be a matter of training and equipping the knight. [/qoute] Edit: I don't know why the first quote
Will there be a way to add content other than units? Why not adding some custom dungeons (with the ability to create the dungeon map, the creatures, place them, place traps, maybe even events like, for instance, push that lever to open thaht door, water level rises or you have 4 turns to reach the exit, etc... !!! )
What would be awesome would be the ability to create dungeons. You place some armies, some creatures you'ce created, some traps, maybe even some events ... Anyway, the "steal their tresaue" thing is already in ... you can already try to steal ennemy items. Just kill them ;) the devs talked about the streaming custom content in the game. It would be awesome to be able to add some things that enhance the gameplay (and not just new technologies)
I think it's not that important ... unless there's a story generator from the most important events in the game.
Awesome. Can't find other words...
And why not a trait for units that allow them to double speed with a "retreat" option? Or allow them to move first, even if they are the attacker (or anything that let them attack then escape)
[quote who="Spartan" reply="17" id="1953351"]THread updated. Thanks for thw work Luckmann - karma given You should double check things. I think one or two are missing. Quoting GW Swicord, reply 16Am I doing anything wrong other than being impatient? You are showing fine by me with your hand avatar. You do need to refresh your cache however.[/quote] Why do we need to empty our cache each time? It's really confusing. Allother boards I know don't need that.
Lord of the rings and The Darkover cycle from Marion Zimmer Bradley are way over the top me thinks.
If a scrub grunt can never hit an elite soldier then that's no more a battle system but a "chess" one. If there's no chance then why fighting? An elite soldier should be overwhelmed by a lot of scubs grunt. But if a unit can never hit then it's all over. Your elite soldier is untouchable. There should always have some sort of "I can get killed" in every battle. Morevoer did you calculate the percentage to get a 15+ score with the open D10 (where 0 means 0)? Or a 30+ s
Armor should have at least the three stats : Encumbrance which would slow the user and raise fatigue when the unit does anything in battle. Evade that let's you escape hits Absorb that lessens damage done. Oh! And one thing about dice thrown : there should be an "no cap" throw. For instance you throw one D10. If you made 9 then you throw it again and add the new number. If you redo 9 then aga
[quote who="Lavitage" reply="21" id="1946013"]Fuck, why is anyone still even arguing over the graphics? It's such a minor point, graphical quality is so unimportant in a game that's fun to play. If you think D3's gameplay is good, you shouldn't give a damn how it looks, let alone how other people think it looks, unless you're a shallow braindead graphics whore yourself (just one who happens to have a hard-on for SPRITES instead of LENS FLARE) I devoted 2 sentences to pointing out t
I hope armour is linked with a fatigue system. And that heavy armour slows whoever wears it. We should also talk about the damage system and health. Armour is linked to them : will it absorb damage? Prevent damage? Both? One thing I like in Fall From Heaven 2 is that bronze armors are weak against lightning ;)
Sprites of dom3 aren't so ugly, but they are far from great. The real bad art choice is to draw sprites on a 3D map. they should have been consistent : or eveything 3D. Or everything 2D. They could have made some "top" camera like in most wargames, and the 2D sprites would have fit well( because there's no smiluation of height so who needs the z axis?)
[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="5" id="1945455"]And, for what it's worth, I was unaware that I'm the only person on the planet who has problems with the Elemental forum color scheme.[/quote] To be honnest I just hate the white on black kind of forums (like in the supcom forums). My eyes bleed after five minutes of reading. Anyway, on topic : you should send a PM to frogboy or Kryo. You would have better results.
So you really live in Siberia o_O
The sounds are terrible, yes. But music ... O_o that's the first thing that pushed me to buy it. It's just beautiful...
In fall from heaven 2, if you were at a great advantage, you had the possibility to switch sides, so you had a real chllaenge for you ;)
Noone? Do you live in Siberia?