Mod: Horror Scourge.

[Amos]

I think the head hunters are way too good. At 60 gold and an effective blood magic 4 (for hunting) they're far, far better than any other blood hunter in the game. I'd suggest lowering their #douse to 1. They'd still probably be the best in the game even then, but since they can't research it'd probably even out.

Thats because I dont like the micro management of the blood sacrifices. I hunt for slaves in bulk instead of a trickle. Head hunters hunt at the level of 4 blood mage, but if a lot of people (2-3) dont like it I'll lower the douse to 1-2. Now the Head Hunter costs 90 instead of 60.

Why do the mages all have an increased lifespan?

I calculated age differently than Illwinter. Adding 10 max years for every 1 magic level. Magic is supposed to empower the mage not age him/her. Dom 3 is unforgiving enough without adding to it the mages that start the game dying.

Why do the black leigionaires cost so much? I understand they're elite, but 14 gold seems closer than 44. They're not THAT good afterall. Looks like a bunch of the other troops are overpriced too. What compared to other national elite troops like Pythium emerald guard (the best humans who cost considerably less) makes them worth this kind of money?

I priced the units using my own system. Also, the money in Dom 3 is not as important as in Dom 2. In mid game you get a lot of it. So 44 in the end is not much different than 14.

Why does the pretender have holy levels?

To show that by feeding the Pretender (blood sacrificing) the Rift opens even more. Read the Soul Juggler's description.

Finally, one of the Kisei X of [the?] Word units fight with 2 short swords. They cost more resources than the other variety, and they're worse. Without ambidexterity, they have lower attack scores than the #nratt 2 troops.

You are right I forgot to add ambidex. Uploaded the corrected version.

[Amos]

Kurgi now summons Lesser Horrors.

[Amos]

Version 0.13

Inventory fixed.

[Amos]

Version 0.14

-Night Terror gained abilities to summon Void beings and to cause insanity in enemy provinces;
-Keda Beast is made unique;
-Changed Keda Flier's sprite.

[DrPraetorious]

Firstly, let me say that this my favorite mod, no question. Awesome schtick, excellent execution, great artwork.

Have you considered making most of the summons combat-summons? Do you know what happens when you copystats a horror and then summon it as a non-neutral? Does it still favor horror-marked enemies or not?

Have you considered making your custom horrors sent-summons instead of normal summons? If you give the nightmare some holy magic, you could send a bunch of them to attack a remote province and they'd be able to bless themselves. I'm not sure what blessing (if any) they'd get as a neutral summon.

Are there any other spells you might want to add? Examples of stuff I can do now:
* A blood/holy spell that only blesses magic beings.
* A spell that gives all sacred magic beings on your side (thus, all your horrors), say: berserking, fast movement, etc.

You can also add spells that give them the ability to horrormark enemies more efficiently, for example.

[Amos]

Have you considered making most of the summons combat-summons? Have you considered making your custom horrors sent-summons instead of normal summons?

That would mean the Tetsu are controlling the Horrors not the other way around.

You can also add spells that give them the ability to horrormark enemies more efficiently, for example.

They got "Astral Claw" for that.

Are there any other spells you might want to add? Examples of stuff I can do now:
* A blood/holy spell that only blesses magic beings.
* A spell that gives all sacred magic beings on your side (thus, all your horrors), say: berserking, fast movement, etc.

Why would you cast a spell that blesses only magical beings when you have extremely low requirement spell that blesses them all?

Do you know what happens when you copystats a horror and then summon it as a non-neutral? Does it still favor horror-marked enemies or not?

I would guess that they would act like the original unit, but thats just a guess.

[Amos]

Version 0.15

-Fixed Temptation;
-Night Terror costs 40 slaves.

[DrPraetorious]

I always thought that they worshipped the horrors, but that the horrors really didn't care (except possibly for the awakening God, if he is some kind of horror.)

Even if the horrors are somehow in charge, their ability to enter our reality is pretty clearly limited, so it'd make sense for them to be remotely summoned or summoned in combat and then to vanish.

I was playing this position and I just didn't see a lot of reason to bring blood slaves with me into combat, and sacrifice them to my pointlessly evil religion. Almost all of my combat magic was astral, in fact. That's no good, if you're going to be the Horror Scourge, you should show up in combat with a *lot* of blood slaves.

They could have a blood-holy spell which blessed all of your horrors and also provided any of the following bonuses (drawn from the bitmask on effect 10). I'm not listing any bonuses which are already available as a bless or which wouldn't really benefit a horror much:
* Luck
* Barkskin
* Boost Strength
* Pain Transfer (?)
* Resist Fire or Cold
* Cold or Heat Radiation
* Stoneskin
* Holy Avenger
* Boosted MR (cumulative with astral blessing)
* Ironskin

So, for example, you could have a combat spell which blessed all of your horrors (all of your sacred magic beings) and made all of your horrors lucky. It'd be blood/astral, which is fine since all of your guys are blood/astral/holy anyway.

Likewise, a variant of astral healing that cost blood slaves and only healed your horrors.

The Astral Claws don't provide enough horror marking to make combat-summoning of conventional horrors really worthwhile, which is too bad, because as the horror scourge it'd be cool if you horror-marked people and then sicked horrors on them.

Boosted national versions of astral geyser and other horror-marking spells would be nice as well, especially if you had more reason to summon independent horrors.

[Amos]

...and sacrifice them to my pointlessly evil religion.

All religions are pointless . Also, religion can only be evil if viewed from the outside.

Almost all of my combat magic was astral, in fact. That's no good, if you're going to be the Horror Scourge, you should show up in combat with a *lot* of blood slaves.

The mages of the nation gain their powers from the Astral plain (from Horrors). Also, I dont like blood slaves on the battlefield. Maybe 1 or 2 but not in the amounts that you are talking about.

So, for example, you could have a combat spell which blessed all of your horrors (all of your sacred magic beings) and made all of your horrors lucky.

They are so powerful as is I dont want to overpower them. I'm thinking about making powerful Horrors domsummon lesser Horrors. I think independent Horrors should be outside of the nations control (I dont like that the situation is different at the moment but I can live with the inconsistency).

[Amos]

Version 0.16

Added new summonable unit - the "Rift". It domsummons Horrors and Lesser Horrors, spreads dominion but causes massive unrest. You will be in hundreds in no time.


DrPraetorious I thought about your Bless proposal. I'm seeing Horrors as being pretty solitary and individualistic. It wouldnt do to have them blessed en mass.