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Interesting thread. I'm with Sythion though. I don't think LH is well balanced currently (in particular it should be called Pathetic Heroes to be accurate ;-) ) which really makes the gameplay suffer but if they fix the balance then I think LH will be a much better game than WoM was for much the same reasons as Sythion says (and few more that I've already gone over in depth back when WoM was released and don't really want to regurgitate!). However it is nice that

I think Arcane Monolith is very strong and agree it makes a massive difference to how easy it is to play the game because of how much map control it gives you. However I think the main reason it is so strong currently is because the alternative (outposts from settlers) is so incredibly underpowered. 30 pop plus a few turns production, then a few more turns walking there, to get an outpost is vastly more expensive and cumbersome than just paying 50 mana and getting an outpost immediate

[quote who="Sanati" reply="55" id="3347576"]Rather than simply removing the AI's ability to declare war, you can "fix" those weights yourself, a few quick changes and you can make the AI value treaties much more, not be as zealous about the totally worthless game score, and not rage at everyone who builds the wrong tower. This way you can set it up so that you have to put some effort into keeping the peace, and even set up the AI diplomatic traits to have more effect so maybe a warmonger

Horse are still good and having one of either horses or wargs is essential because the extra movement is so useful. Generally I favour horses over wargs for that reason.

At least it is still just a beta!

If you hadn't previously played WoM/FE with encumbrance and were just starting to play LH then would you notice the absence of encumbrance? I don't think you would. That isn't a compelling argument but it indicates it isn't a critical part of this sort of game. So then the question is whether encumbrance adds enough interesting choices to outweigh the extra complexity. I'm undecided on this but I haven't seen a really compelling argument for reinstating it yet.

It depends on the difficultly level. On higher difficulty levels the AI should certainly be trying to make very few mistakes. All the points sxyz123 lists are very good and fixing them would make the AI much more challenging and fun to play against in high difficulty levels.

I just want to stop collecting 5 wooden shields in a row. That's all I ask!

Interesting post. Like Xia I expected the opposite complaint from the title. At higher difficulty levels the AI will only declare war on you if they have more power (or at least comparable). A large part of power comes from army size and settlements. Assuming Easy difficulty works the same way then recruiting enough troops and settling enough to keep your power at or above the level of the AI should make it much less likely they will declare war on you. The other thing you can do is c

Too true. At least it appears Kael and Frogboy know about it. (I don't agree at all with the people wanting to get rid of XP splitting for heroes though, the old way without XP splitting meant there was no sensible choice but to have ALL your heroes in one stack, anything else meant you were throwing XP away. The current scheme means that so long as you have one or more heroes in each stack you don't waste any XP).

The problem isn't XP splitting. The problem is that heroes level too slowly and are too weak mid-late game (fighting heroes anyway). Without XP splitting the only optimal path is to put all heroes in one stack and use that stack to take as many monsters as possible. With XP splitting it is viable to split the heroes into several armies which all try to clear monsters. Keep in mind that XP splitting doesn't make you lose XP, you just divide the XP from monsters up betwe

Excellent post, [e digicons]k1[/e] I agree entirely. I'm an empire builder at heart (sounds like OP is the same) but there is little point building an empire and strong heroes etc because there is nothing to do with it once you reach past mid game. I think fixing this will require lots of changes and you've mentioned some of them. Just improving the AI to the point where a war between a strong AI and a weak AI will pretty quickly result in the strong AI conquering the

[quote who="ogredpowell" reply="9" id="3344984"]Let heroes start out wimpy, require some grooming but w dedication become major forces.[/quote] Exactly. At low levels heroes should need to be cautious and have other troops supporting them (although fighting class heroes should still be able to survive on the front lines in a fair fight, just not when outnumbered/outleveled). Mid game heroes (eg level 10) should be pretty strong but still quite vulnerable if they get th

This has always been one of my biggest bugbears with FE. As someone said the game is either too easy (at difficulties around challenging) or you ramp the difficulty up and then struggle simply because the AI is cheating so much. Some players obviously enjoy the challenge of beating an AI which is effectively playing a different game and has much stronger units etc but I much prefer at least the illusion of a more level playing field. Dunno what can be done about it though. Do

How do you reload them with one hand encumbered with a crossbow? However realism aside it seems a decent idea, though I think they should only get to fire every second turn.

What an awesome thread! Two things: 1. Getting scaled down XP for managing to kill a monster more powerful than you is about as unfun as anything I can imagine. It has to be fixed. 2. AoW:SM was a really good game despite the poor AI. With great AI it would probably be the best fantasy strategy game of all time and we would quite likely still be playing it rather than FE/LH... All IMO of course.

I had one of my first FE games post release ended by a stack of wildland trolls which crossed a wildland border and crushed my only city at about turn 15. Not fun!

My vote is for seeing the heroes details. As others have said it is a strategy game which pretty much by definitely is about winning through making good choices. Not showing the detail is mainly just punishing players who haven't played often enough to remember the details (either that or forcing people to go to a wiki/the xml files in order to find out the details).

I think they need mechanics like swarm however I would prefer it to be a more complex mechanic where flanking was more advantageous than swarming from one side only. In any case even the basic version they currently have adds a bit more strategy. A big problem I think is that heroes are currently underpowered. Swarm just accentuates that basic problem. The other big problem is as you have said, the game is all about glass cannons currently.

Maybe the AI doesn't get affected by research and production settings?

[quote who="Darxim" reply="1" id="3341437"]I'd say you can double-click to cast, but it too often uses the second click of the double-click for targeting, so you'll often end up casting the spell on the wrong spot.[/quote] This bug drives me crazy, particularly when casting Arcane Monolith! Really needs a fix.

Would be nice if the number of traits scaled up more gradually, you know 4 at expert, 5 at the next level, etc. 3 to 6 is a huge and very noticeable jump just for one difficulty level.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="10" id="3336855"]It's not likely to change back. We did this in order to balance against single mega stacks.[/quote] Didn't notice Frogboy had commented on this. If mega stacks winning multiple battles in a turn are the problem then just make each army only able to attack once per turn. That is a much tidier solution than making all movement stop and it allows the player to still take loot if they win a battle (assuming they have enoug

It should be fixed IMO. FE/LH is already a fairly slow paced game by design, there are several little things like this which make the player baby/micromanage their units and cities more than they should have to which makes it even slower.

I like it. A few pie in the sky ideas which probably won't happen but lots of basic essentials too.