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Arryn · #1 September 2nd, 2004, 11:36 AM

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geo981010 said:
there isn't a broken wing affliction, is there? It'd be cool for flying units to be able to lose their flight ability if they had their wings hurt.

AFAIK, there's no "broken leg" affliction either, immobilizing or severely slowing down non-flyers. Ditto "broken tail" for swimmers. Let's not single out the flyers for special treatment just because they can fly, please.

von_Schmidt · #2 September 2nd, 2004, 11:45 AM

"AFAIK, there's no "broken leg" affliction either, immobilizing or severely slowing down non-flyers. Ditto "broken tail" for swimmers. Let's not single out the flyers for special treatment just because they can fly, please. "

Crippled.

Arryn · #3 September 2nd, 2004, 11:51 AM

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von_Schmidt said:
Crippled.

Is this one of the new afflictions that were introduced a patch or two ago? I've yet to see it.

Thufir · #4 September 2nd, 2004, 11:59 AM

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Arryn said:

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geo981010 said:
there isn't a broken wing affliction, is there? It'd be cool for flying units to be able to lose their flight ability if they had their wings hurt.

AFAIK, there's no "broken leg" affliction either, immobilizing or severely slowing down non-flyers. Ditto "broken tail" for swimmers. Let's not single out the flyers for special treatment just because they can fly, please.

How about "Limp", that's -4AP. At least on most infantry troops, that's a pretty severe AP reduction.

von_Schmidt · #5 September 2nd, 2004, 12:32 PM

'Limp' is the one I meant - not 'crippled'. My bad.

Don't know if it affects stratmove though.

archaeolept · #6 September 2nd, 2004, 12:39 PM

no, "crippled" is an old affliction. you've no doubt seen it but forgotten about it, arryn. It is, in fact, notoriously useful, as crippled units set at the back on hold and attack generally prevent pretender routs

Arryn · #7 September 2nd, 2004, 11:56 PM

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archaeolept said:
no, "crippled" is an old affliction. you've no doubt seen it but forgotten about it, arryn. It is, in fact, notoriously useful, as crippled units set at the back on hold and attack generally prevent pretender routs

You are no doubt correct about it being old and having slipped my mind. It also doesn't help my memory that I typically put up GoH as soon as I can, which tends to fix such things before I might take notice of them. It's only when I play nations who aren't strong in Nature that things like afflictions and supply impinge on my consciousness.

Thanks for the reply ... and the useful hint.

Zapmeister · #8 September 3rd, 2004, 12:43 AM

Heck, there's a heap of cool afflictions that haven't been implemented. Insulted, married, quadraplegic and believing that professional wrestling is real, all spring to mind. But you've got to draw the line somewhere.

Thufir · #9 September 3rd, 2004, 12:46 AM

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Zapmeister said:
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believing that professional wrestling is real, all spring to mind.
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whadya mean, guy, professional wrestling is real! they wouldn't fake that! (right?)

Arryn · #10 September 3rd, 2004, 02:09 AM

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Zapmeister said:
Heck, there's a heap of cool afflictions that haven't been implemented.

You left out "alcoholic" (-2 to all attributes), "gambler" (costs double upkeep), and "apostate" (inability to receive blessings of any sort). And let's not forget the phobias. "Acrophobia" (cannot be given items of flying), and "arachnophobia" (suffers +10 fear vs. spiders) come easily to mind. There's a veritable cornucopia of amusing afflictions one can create from phobias. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Poison.gif[/img]