Dominions 3 development news

[Endoperez]

* New Quagmire spell

A quagmire (from "quake" + "mire") is, literally, shaky, miry ground; as a political term used to describe a foreign military campaign in which there is either no foreseeable possibility of victory or the objectives are unclearly defined, and at the same time no clear exit strategy has been formulated in the absence of victory. The military campaign is likened to a kind of swamp or marsh in which the warring nation is unable to remove itself.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagmire

Does anyone else wonder how they can choose such fitting words for spells? I don't know what the spell does, but the name alone gives many hints of the direction, and with the other changes (swamp affecting battles; maybe other terrains are already implemented?) this could be very interesting spell...

[Gandalf Parker]

new changes are up..
http://ulm.illwinter.com/dom3/dom3progress.html
* Ancestor Vessel spear removed
* Barbarian HC weapon fix
* Zweihander improvement
* Monster fish
* Damage nbrs looks better
* Midgetmasher works again
* Khan, Noble sprites
* Noble commander TC EE
* Moss Body spell
*
17th june
* Some spell cost & lvl changes (Breath of winter, fireshield, magic duel, elemental kings, drakes, vine ogre, spectral mage, dai oni, summon scorpion man)
* Swamp affects units in battle
* New Quagmire spell
* New artifact Tome for Frankenstein aspirants
* Fortress fixes. All nations should have correct start fort now.
* Lightning rod increased corpse man construction
* Corpse men shock resitstant
* Spectral mage less random magic

[Nerfix]

I wonder what the "Moss Body" does.

[DominionsFan]

Nerfix said:
I wonder what the "Moss Body" does.

If you ask me...I think that it will be a "nature" spell, what will raise the def value of the units. There was a game with the spell "barkskin" and it was a defensive spell, I think it was in NWN.

[Saber Cherry]

Funny, I think it was in Dominions

Moss Body probably makes units camouflaged in forest battles, and allows them to photosynthesize so spells like Solar Rays and Stellar Cascades will give them energy instead of hurting them.

[DominionsFan]

Saber Cherry said:
Funny, I think it was in Dominions

Moss Body probably makes units camouflaged in forest battles, and allows them to photosynthesize so spells like Solar Rays and Stellar Cascades will give them energy instead of hurting them.

There! I knew that it was an NWN spell also.

http://nwn.stratics.com/content/stat...s/spells.shtml



Anyways your idea about the spell sounds very valid.

[Oversway]

Are we still on target for going gold in july?