Hoburg Alliance Special Edition, now complete with hoburg heroes

ywl · #1 February 5th, 2004, 07:42 PM

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Originally posted by Adept:
Hmm... I have to say hoburg alliance with a fire 9 pretender sounds very strange to me.

Then again, it may not sound so strange to others, and there of course musn't be easily exploitable loopholes in any mod. But doesn't the fire 9 blessing make monsters out of any holy unit?

It's strange

but sometimes the game is played like a competitive strategic game. Or we can image that the Hoburgs are enslaved and driven by a Moloch or Fire Dragon. Possible? For game balancewise, we can take Moloch out of the pretender list but it'll be kind of odd as every land nations, even Caelum has it.

Flagellants would be a nice candidate for Fire blessing but they could be slaughtered by missle. A Fire 9/Air ? pretender for Marignon could cover this vulnerability but it'd be expensive. A Marignon army with an Air mage casting "Arrow Fend" is a strategy yelling "try me". I guess we'll need MP players who've seen it to describe their experience.

Teraswaerto · #2 February 5th, 2004, 07:48 PM

I think you overestimate their power. 7 is pretty low as far as hitpoints are concerned.

ywl · #3 February 5th, 2004, 08:24 PM

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Originally posted by Teraswaerto:
I think you overestimate their power. 7 is pretty low as far as hitpoints are concerned.

Could be.

That's why I stressed that it's only some rough impression of a single person

. More veteran players need to test and get a feeling of it.

But on the other hand, Flagellants have only 9 hitpoints, 0 protection and lower attack and defense skills - though they're in fact cheaper and require less resource.

But in my testing, I haven't put the Boots of the Behemoth, Ring of Regeneration and Fire Shield on my Moloch and use him as a super-combatant yet. Even without the super-combatant, it was already expanding faster than what I could with the best of my other regular nations.

Teraswaerto · #4 February 17th, 2004, 10:20 PM

A new Version is available on the Illwinter site. Master Alchemist replaced with Great Rainmaker, a Hoburg archmage riding a giant hawk. Hoburg militia have slings, Erdefreunds act as spies and all stealthy Hoburgs have more than 0 stealth. Several other smaller improvements are also included.

Additional thanks goes to Adept and Nekov, who had a big part in the making of this latest update.

[ February 17, 2004, 20:21: Message edited by: Teraswaerto ]