.com.unity Forums
  The Official e-Store of Shrapnel Games

This Month's Specials

Raging Tiger- Save $9.00
winSPMBT: Main Battle Tank- Save $6.00

   







Go Back   .com.unity Forums > Illwinter Game Design > Dominions 3: The Awakening

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #1  
Old July 12th, 2008, 12:54 PM
Baalz's Avatar

Baalz Baalz is offline
Major General
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 2,435
Thanks: 57
Thanked 662 Times in 142 Posts
Baalz will become famous soon enough
Default Suggestion for new Oceana units

Going under the assumption that KO will add whatever inspires him, I thought I'd suggest a few very cool, thematic things that might be added to MA Oceana. Some of these would be summoned, some might make sense to be recruitable.

MA Oceana:
Giant crocodile - how cool is that? Powerful bite can have an entangling effect similar to Machaka's spiders making it good for taking down large thugs, er...game.

Scylla - from the same Homer as Sirens, kind of an amphibious hydra. Aside from being hella cool, this could give Oceana a good poison immune amphibian to leverage one of the few things than can cast well - poison. "Scylla was a horribly grotesque sea monster, with six long necks equipped with grisly heads, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth. Her body consisted of twelve canine legs and a cat's tail."

Selkie - Kind of a A/W niad, giving Oceana access to a strong air mage. "The shy Selkies are marine creatures in the shape of a seal. They can be found near the islands of Orkney and Shetland. A female can shed her skin and come ashore as a beautiful woman. When a man finds the skin, he can force the Selkie to be a good, if somewhat sad, wife. Should she ever recover the skin, she will immediately return to sea, leaving her husband behind. The male Selkies are responsible for storms and also for the sinking of ships, which is their way of avenging the hunting of seals."

All in all I think Oceana could be retouched to be more of a raging sea/storm type theme with good air magic. This is closer to Pangea's "nature is pissed off" motif, and would not only go a long way towards making Oceana more competitive, it would also add a strong differentiation to them as a water nation. They already seem more generally amphibious than the other water nations (other than the crippling of their mages), making them a water/air/nature nation would be pretty cool while certainly leaving them nothing like Caelum or the various A/N nations. They've got good raiders, theming them as reaver coast raiders was a lot of in fun Kingmaker - I was thinking along the lines of the Greyjoys from A Song of Ice and Fire.
Reply With Quote
 

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:25 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©1999 - 2024, Shrapnel Games, Inc. - All Rights Reserved.