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[quote who="Tasunke" reply="2" id="3282921"]So say ... if a Fell Dragon is roaming near your city ... just 'wandering' ... it will never attack me unless some pissant soldier attacks it first? (I kind of like this, in a way ...)[/quote] You can change the monster lair density in the game world on the game creation screen. Setting it to low would make the start easier, i guess(i never did - i always set it to the max instead :)) Fell dragon sho
[quote who="NanakoAC" reply="6" id="3282659"]o a certain amount of damage, and it distributes that damage in an overflowing single-target manner, starting with the lowest HP unit[/quote] From my experience, it starts with the unit which is last in your stack(about 90% of the autocombats do this). I routinely exploit this by rearranging my army when i don't want to manually fight a series of combats i know i will win anyway. Typical situation: Sovereign with
[quote who="Epitagh" reply="17" id="3282843"] I don't even understand how the diplomacy in this game works. I have people declare war on me in what feels randomly and almost always feel like I am outnumbered.[/quote] Check the diplomacy screen. It breaks down why they hate/like you in clear words, like "you are too close (-1)", or "we have different concerns(+2)". If the sum of those is heavily negative, they will hate your guts and declare war eventually
Didn't see this happen for a long time now, so it possibly got fixed already. I believe it was related to memory issues after running the game for a long time(along with stuff like tile yield overlay disappearing, etc.)
It seems to me in auto combat the game simply takes the ratings of the two armies and calculates result from that. This can mean significantly different outcomes depending on whether you fight manually or automatically. I'd suggest using auto combat whenever your army rating is higher than enemy rating, as it usually results in much less damage taken by you. Also, auto combat sometimes lets you win fights that would be impossible to win manually, especially when the enemy has spec
Sometimes it takes a turn after capture before the numbers check out, something with enchantments not registering the change of ownership until the next turn is processed i think... might be the cause. It happened to me that i could not cast an enchantment on a city i just captured because it said all enchantment slots are used up(the UI showed them empty) but next turn i could cast it.
The AI might have been paid by other AI to declare war on you.
I had an interesting related experience. One game, i took out an AI faction with an early rush. When i took their capital, i discovered there was a dragon sitting two squares away on the other side of the city, well within the city's zone of influence. Since i was in the spearmen technology phase, i wrote the city off as a loss - there was no way i could defend it against a dragon. I set up a building queue and left the empty city to it's fate. The drago
[quote who="NanakoAC" reply="3" id="3281373"]The game's definition of magic is quite narrow. As far as i can describe it, "magic" is effects caused by a spell, which is selectable as an action in combat, and falls in the "spells" category of the tactical combat skillbar screen. Elemental damage which does not come from a spell, isn't considered magic. even if it is quite clearly from an enchanted staff throwing magical bolts of fire. I'd agree that the curren
[EDIT] I tested this in tactical and it seems the 'autoattacking' is a separate issue from what i wrote below. I saw the auto attack happen with a wolf with deadly bite ready, i could not move next to an enemy then use deadly bite because after moving the wolf always attacked normally before i could select the ability, even after i made sure the highlighted tile is the one next to target and not under him. I believe this is caused by an annoying h
Just a side note - Veteran would be somewhat more acceptable if it worked outside the experience progression. Meaning, Relias would start as a level 2 sovereign but still start with 0 experience, and would need 10 experience for the next level(in his case, the 3rd). That way he would keep his one-level-advantage over the other sovereigns into the late game(Relias and Markin with the same amount of experience, Relias would be one level higher)
To elaborate: Designing an unit you wish to upgrade later, when giving it armor don't click on(for example) 'leather chestpiece', click on the right-most icon looking like a shield(in the chest armor category). This tells the unit to use the best chestpiece available when it is built, and allows you to upgrade the chestpiece later after you research better armor. On a related note, if you want the unit to upgrade to plate armor eventually, give it the strength trait(or a h
[quote who="pad152" reply="7" id="3279233"] I think his point is, it cuts down on your choices to get two identical upgrade options That's the issue, I'm getting both upgrade options (Knowledge and Potential III) at the same time! They both do the same thing and give the same bonus.[/quote] There are multiple abilities improving the same stat in the ability pool. The fact you got both at the same time is just coincidence, they are picked from the po
[quote who="BernieTime" reply="2" id="3278978"]I have a question: When units get their opportunity to counter-attack, does that unit have any penalties to hit the attacking unit? I think this would help reduce the overall feeling of Swords being OP compared to other weapon forms. [/quote] They are not OP. Every weapon has it's advantages: - spears are immune to counterattack, and ignore a significant part of enemy defense(50%
[quote quoting="post"]Now whats the point? - Every time my high inititive unit gets a shot the Great wolf, this is just an example, counterattacks for examp[le WTF???? The faster I am - The more the other guy gets to chew on my Face?? [/quote] No. Everytime it's the wolf's turn, he charges up his counterattack ability. Next time he gets attacked in melee (by something that is not a spear), he use
[quote who="dangerlinto" reply="3" id="3276446"] Quoting Chiarden, reply 1The differnet tiers of traits always are cumulative. Mouse-over the stats they effect, not the trait itself and you will see the bonus from each tier in the tooltip (works for everything but +% exp). Several of the bonuses do not show when you are choosing them - Evoker is just one example, as there is no place where you can look up what your current bonus to spell damage is. [/quote]</
Yep it's acid, not poison.
Not really interested in static maps. But i would be interested in larger maps than what the random map generator offers(even if they were static). Ideally tho, a huge random map option would be best.
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="45" id="3269165"] If I put an army into a city, and then try to take a unit that was in that army out of the city, it will turn around and reenter the city. [/quote] This normally happens when you are moving an unit out of a city, but when selecting a destination square where to eject it from the city, you choose a square that itself still is a part of that city. I sometimes make this mistake because a tile looks
[quote who="taltamir" reply="91" id="3266693"] 4. Attacking an enemy spends 1 move point to attack them, and an extra move point to walk BACK to the square you started from. Then a third move point has to be spent to walk unto the square they occupied... Just consume 3 move points on the attack but let me end on the square I walked into.[/quote] Hmm, not according to my experience. Normally, if army has 2 movement points, then attacking a square that is plains only c
[quote who="Droghar" reply="1" id="3257780"] 1) Yes - click on govern on the bottom right of screen, then enchantments tab, and you can remove enchantments there. It's not possible from the individual city interface.[/quote] Actually, it is. Open city interface, in the part that shows the city look there's the enchantments displayed in the upper left corner. You can click on the small X inside the enchantment slot circle to cancel the enchantment.
I started the campaign just to see what it's like, then i look up and it's midnight [e digicons]X|[/e] It's not exactly the pinnacle of 4X challenge, but it's fun nonetheless.
Actually, there is a lightning animation when the hammer hits. Not the huge air elemental-like, but a small flash of electricity.
I'm one of the few people who actually liked the first WOM :) Especially playing on a really huge map made by Elementerra. Still, FE is undeniably better(save the huge maps, i miss those)