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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Subject: [ian-reeds-games] age of warlords inaccuracies
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.
