Mod: Ermor - The Restoration - Draft v0.75

[Edi]

Sparked by the discussion in the Gath Dev Diary thread, would there be any general interest in seeing a mod where MA & LA Ermor were switched around?

It won't be very difficult at all for me to do the description changes for a mod that punts Broken Empire to Late Era and makes it a splinter offshoot of exiles returning from Pythium to restore Ermor. I may make one regardless of the level of interest here, but I figured I'd ask. All it needs is altered descriptions, really. A few minor tweaks to some unit equipment. Perhaps also some extra minor mage for them to give a bit more variety in magic than the AWSD they currently have.

I'll kindly thank Foodstamp for providing the skeleton of the mod in the dev diary thread, saves me from making that much structure.

Naturally, if Kristoffer feels that this is territory best left untrodden because he wants to keep it to himself, I will respect that and any mod I may or may not make will in such a case stay private.

So, speak up if you want to see this! If all I get is a general unenthusiastic 'meh' to this, I'll probably put it on backburner.


EDIT: Since Kristoffer himself decided to encourage me, here's a first draft

EDIT 2: Uploaded draft version 0.75 of the mod, with further modified Renata and Renatus, a thematically appropriate Cultist and a new unit, the Shadow Priestess. Shadow Vestal also got new graphics.

[Aezeal]

Well not having read that thread I wonder why you would do that.

Then you'd have an annoying strong MA ermor and no fishheads to counter them.

[Endoperez]

To be able to face off eeeeevil Ermor with gooooood Marignon, instead of Diabolical Faith. MA also has slightly more magic and I think most nations would be at least as good at countering Ermor in MA as they are in LA.

I also fail to see how including both LA Ermor and R'lyeh in the same game can be considered a good thing. It just makes everyone else's game that much less fun.

[Aezeal]

Endo.. it means they only ruin one age and not 2

[Sombre]

Rlyeh is, imo, much more annoying to deal with than Ermor.

I'm not interested in this mod, but maybe others are.

[Kristoffer O]

I would be interested, at least to see how things work out on a thematical level. So I would encourage you

[krawn]

I think that this would be great. Staggering Ermor/R'yleh instead of having them both in the same era seems like a good idea, and a slightly changed MA Ermor would do great in LA too in terms of variety.

[samoht]

I'd love to see a mod like this. I miss the days from Dominion, and DomII when I could pit classic Ermor against all of the MA nations it used to face off against.

[Tuidjy]

I have seen at least two game threads in which the host straight out banned
LA Ermor and R'lyeh. In my personal opinion, Ermor is not unbalanced, just
extremely scary. R'lyeh, on the other hand is simply nuts.

Single water nation with massively amphibious units, defensive dominion,
autospawn, clamming ability, extra summoning ability, full slots thuggable
commanders, best mages in the age, insane magic resistance, the two most
powerful paths at reasonable levels...

When I first looked at it, I went 'Huh?'.

I went back to look at them, and to see whether they are as insane as I
rememebered... So I found out some more advantages that I had missed:
communionable priests, amphibious net using troops, mindless tramplers.

Does anyone believe that the dominion is bad enough to balance ALL these
disavantages? From my tests, growth 3 is enough to counteract the population
killing effect, and the insanity effect is no worse that let say Pythium's
old age problems. Of course, the insanity affects invaders MUCH worse than
it does R'lyeh.

[djo]

As much as I'd like to have LA Ermor and MA Marignon in the same bracket, I'd strongly prefer keeping LA Ermor where it is. I like LA as the era of death and decline.