[ian-reeds-games] Re: age of warlords inaccuracies
- From: "Allan Thompson" <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:31:02 -0500
Hi,
Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it.
Thanks also for playing the map pack. I am sorry it was broke...again, lol.
I will try to fix that first thing tonight and I will take a look at the
twilight map, although, to be honest, the bridge is the whole point of the map.
I personally think the ramparts give plenty of advantage. They rip up monsters
pretty quick if they stray too close to the river bank.
You might have the map pack that still has the hellhounds in it, instead of the
nerfed mudasa and the manticore which replaces the hellhounds so I will make
sure the dropbox is holding the correct version of the map pack.
Also if you have any ideas for a battle scenario for age of warlords let me
know, and I am sure it can be built and put into the pack. I actually just kind
of steal ideas of battles from movies, tv, and books I have read so anything
new is very welcome.
al
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Hi, found some flakiness with age of warlords v2. I know converting everything
was a monumental process though, so a bit of forgetfullness here and there is
to be eexpected.
1 looks like the diplomacy skill doesn't work anymore to convert structures in
the axis and allies map pack
2 the inspire, battlecry, intimidate, blood transfer and some other skills
restore things above the maximum. For most of these skills, that's ok, but for
the ones that restore health, especially the life transfer, things can get real
insane real fast. Have you ever try to kill a liche with 50 of 17 hp and 49 of
12 energy while it's inundating you with negative energy blasts? It's hard.
It's really hard.
3 bards can be pretty damn potent when there's more than 1 and they are in
close proximity. A bard can inspire his bard companion. When this happens, the
companion inspires the other bard, and they become a team of destruction as
they just keep inspiring each other and then doing damage with their spare
action. So I move that inspire be unusable on fellow bards.
4 on the battle at twilight map pack I really feel as though the computer has a
huge advantage being able to recruit basilisks and medusa units that can
petrify before we have a chance to recruit more than a single will-o-wisp. And
they can just keep right on rolling out those medusa archers and basilisks.
Because the caverns of chaos is basically a stronghold unit and you start with
only a settlement, you are disadvantaged from round 1 even with your additional
watch towers and things. And deven more so because there are 2. Maybe you
should make it so the caverns of chaos are like downgraded and the computer can
eventually upgrade into the caverns of chaos that can recruit medusa archers
and basilisks after like 12 turns or something, similar to the wait for keep
to fortress. As it was, I made it like 40 rounds before amabandoning the game.
I felt like I was fighting a trench battle. I felt as though I was battling for
a single square and a single misstep could make me lose that square and have to
start over battling for it again. It also sucks that there's only 1 way to
cross into enemy territory and you can't build any buildings or towers there.
As it is, the watch towers you build are placed so far from the fighting, due
to the presence of the river, that they can't really help you unless the enemy
has made it past your defenders. By that time, the towers won't stop them from
killing you anyway. it is a really innovative map pack though, and it requires
thinking. I wish there were some more rampart squares. THat would make my life
a bit easier too.
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