Glowing_Ember

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is the move through friendlies mechanic intentional ? that explains a lot. lol I thought it was a bug.

maybe they do this already, I have captured a city with 0 materials and 0 food but had 1 essence, very frustrating. edit: mind you, the game seems to have gone very buggy on me about 2 days ago. I reinstalled but it didn't change anything sigh. I will try playing while unlogged from steam and see how it goes. someone mentioned they thought it was causing issues so...

another thing you could do is make units for every faction so they have more unit choice to use against you. If you don't play a faction it hampers them, since every unit you make for a faction has a chance to be used when the ai plays that faction.

ok,yes.it is intentional. Originally the traits did add damage to the elemental staves, but everybody agreed it was too effective and was getting out of hand, so the traits were changed to be physical only. Having 6 units of staff wielding units made it easy to kill entire armies on the larger size tactical maps. In legendary heroes, the maps are smaller and enemies start closer together so melee can start right away. This gives ranged units more of a sniper role instead of kill

Your missing the point. Elemental damage is not blocked by armour, it's lowered by fire, ice, lightning resistance. so the 6 fire, or 6 ice does more damage than the 7, physical of a bow plus trait bonuses.

what i'm saying is, if the archer is standing next to the attacked unit it participates in the attack and gives the swarm bonus, is that intended ?

My question is does the ai not realize you are using elemental damage and trying to protect itself from that ? I mean at some point, stop researching refined defense...

I can understand the new casting cost completely. Once your troops hit aboutlevel 6, 7, or 8, they hit a sweet spot where a group of three troops starts hitting for up to eighteen lightning damage for only 16 mana. After that it just gets better and better, with lost of of potential mana generation using meditation in every city, you now have a race that can out dark elf the dark elves from master of magic WOW how cool is that ? Pariden is the new dark elf. EDIT

The staff on its own doesn't have quite enough punch, but when you add the extra damage from a frost ring and a fire ring for that +2 damage, you start to get worthwhile damage. The real benefit you get from the damage is that it ignores armour. So if someone is throwing full plate mail troops at you - get something to tank for you while your staff troops shred them to pieces. good traits are: accuracy, to make sure everything hits, spell resistance, if an ai

doesn't clicking on the pile to bring another group to the top of the pile, making that the active unit work ? I seem to remember doing this to caravans to get the other unit. This was added in to deal with this particular complaint. When there are 2 or more objects on a tile, you can click on the pile to make another object the active one. This enables you to build a resource or target a unit with a spell or attack.

Should archer units be able to help a fellow unit attack ? And is it possible to have a swarm archer bonus at range? say an archer attack and the swarm archer shoots off an extra shot to help out ?

you could argue that the increased gold cost pays for the material cost, but I suppose you want to see the materials there to be complete. I don't blame you about that.

yes you can from the upgrade to the potions in the conclave city upgrade 1 gives you growth potion upgrade 2 gives you a healing potion and I believe the 3rd upgrade gives you the debuff healing potion. You can only make 1 of these per faction. ( upgrade, not only buy one potion)

really starting to hate ythril again, only this time not for the juggernauts. Bash is evil, while i do admire it requiring me to research armour earlier. Still getting used to everything being closer together in the beginning of a fight, I tend to run a 3:1 ratio of melee to caster +archer atm. tarth seem to die 1st a lot. Maybe the ai is not using the doublestrike properly. Tarth with henchmen would rock.

Have you tried making the land fertile again with bless land or the death magic equivalent ?

bump. Anyone have any thoughts on how the new interface will change modding ?

I hate writing things and regretting it.

0OOooo praise from xia, is that fire raining down from the sky ? :O Perhaps he's still on a buzz from the pony quest.

Your using the ability wrong - the best way to use is to stand your hero behind a low initiativeunit, such as a mace wielding unit to turn them into a brick wall. It's not going to be as effective on a spear or sword using unit since they have a higher initiative. I'm just saying there is nothing inherently wrong with the ability as it is written, just that you want to do things with it for which it was not intended.

ahh thats where the exe file is, the steam shortcut points to cloud so i was very confused

If LH loads off of steam, how can i run the game in administrator mode to fix the graphics glitch of missing textures. This happens periodically when a patch is installed, and the game forgets where some graphic files are. This was a simple problem to fix before steam, but running steam in administrator mode does not fix the problem. I've tried turning every option to minimalist settings and running the game in windowed mode, which of course made the game run faster, but didn't fix th

I've been playing the beta the past few days and i'm having so much fun with it - it's such a great improvement to the game. You all have been working really hard on it as a group these past two years ( my god has it been two years :O ack its been three ) The Fame mechanic gives so much needed love to some of the buildings that there are great choices available when it comes time to build the next building. The new hero skill system is really neat. I was wondering what kin

I like to sit in my chair wearing only underwear while i chug diet coke so my kids (2 girls) refuse to come into the basement. Saves my computer time and my diet soda. I prefer running spellcaster sov's while leaning towards kingdom instead of empire - i really like the life spells. Occasionally i play with empire. I made a custom empire faction with henchmen, shard binding and a beast tamer sovereign with enchanter. I felt dirty and cheap.

err, will it be an upgrade or a self contained expansion installer ?