Mod: Urdheim, The Infinite Horde

[Foodstamp]

/shrug, I think the graphics look awesome.

[BandarLover]

Sombre said:
Visually stunning is a bit much.

Jealous much?

J/K Sombre, you know I love your work.

Though are those little light blotches on the raiders suppose to be there?

[Sombre]

Hahah, I'd love to pretend I'm jealous but I don't think the mod subforum is a very good place for DRAAAMA.

They do look very nice though - like Amos' stuff they are quite different from the style of Dom3 but as one nation I bet they look really good on the battlefield.

There is one thing - if you use copystats with the dwarf from 'heim to get darkvision 50 I think there's a bug where you can't assign the unit to have ld40. They have to have ldr10 or 120 or whatever instead. #okleader just doesn't work for some reason.

[Sombre]

Oh and Bandar - those are the flames from the torches they're carrying.

[BandarLover]

Thanks for that. I didn't notice the Torch in their hands. Guess my eyes are failing as I'm getting older.

[Saulot]

Thanks for all the positive comments. It's quite appreciated, and most helpful as a form of motivation to keep working at it, and improving the quality of the mod.

As for darkvision, I'm going to lean against it for now, when the mod is released for beta, and if people suggest it as a good idea, it may be implemented as Sombre suggest, though it does ruin the Ranger's current leadership (possibly some other units too).

As for today's progress, I've updated two attacksprites, did a few balancing changes to stats/costs, and added a national spell.

[Saulot]

Played through a quick 45 province game vs. impossible Vanheim. Progress is steady. Feels like one or two more quick games, and it should be ready for betatesting by the public.
Update for today:

Fixed several itemslot bugs.
Fixed age of units.
Added two attacksprites.
Balanced several units.
Improved Scion of Abraxas.
Added a national combat spell.
Tweaked several national spells.
Updated nation forts.

[Sombre]

I've worked out how to get darkvision and 40 leadership working.

You make a unit 12345 or whatever and copystats the darkvision unit (like an agarthan infantry) to him. Then you give him the #armor "nothing" #weapon "nothing" tags.

Then when you make your units you copystats 12345 instead of the agarthan and you get the darkvision but not the equipment.

[Saulot]

Have to say that's a creative solution, good job Sombre.

So I've been thinking about darkvision again, and it presents some options to be weighed carefully. Adding 50% darkvision to all the kobolds seems realistic enough, but adding abilities like that makes me want to increase their goldcost or take away a point somewhere. The problem of course being, that every time they're balanced up in terms of quality&cost, they are a bit farther away from the cheap weenie army they're supposed to be. I suppose one possibility is to lower their hp by one. They're not very likely to survive more than one blow anyway, so this is a minor tweak down for them, as partial darkvision is a minor tweak up.

On the other hand, if the kobolds get darkvision, perhaps the more draconic units (the two scions specifically), should also get it. This is thematic of course, with DND dragons, but not thematic with Dom dragons. Their already pretty beefy, and the risk of just adding cool ability after another and creating overpowered creatures is high. One really has to reign oneself in from giving in to that. *sigh*

The third aspect of this, is this once again begs for a revision of the nation forts, to the cave type forts. Kobolds are as much, if not more, underground dwelling creatures as aboveground, so realistically/thematically it fits. This does however, pose the issue, of how powerful the kobold forts become. (Their PD is pretty healthy already.)

So... thanks to Sombre, I'm now leaning for darkvision. Suggestions are more than welcome.

Secondly, I've been considering the spell 'Life after Death', amongst other necromantic spells, and I Was wondering, is there any way to select which unit is created as that nation's undead? Kind of how Caelum, C'tis, Etc... each have their own soulless. I'd be willing to create kobold skeleton and soulless sprites for this purpose if it was possible. (So far I've been strongly leaning against adding a national 'create skeleton' spell, just for the purpose of throwing around kobold skeletons.)

[Endoperez]

Adding in nation-spesific undeads isn't possible. It's been requested in the modders' wish list.