Mod: Urdheim, The Infinite Horde

[Burnsaber]

I also gave this a whirl (played a 110 province game through). I went with W9 blue dragon and with an agressive expansion plan. With a W9 bless, the scions are thugs right from the start!

So I conquered with Scions and my dragon in the early game(worked wonderfully, I quickly took lead in the "provinces" chart). My one Scion of Sirrush got Heroic Strenght in the beginning stages and by late game his strenght was around 64 unbuffed.

Not much to say about balance, seems fine to me. I found use to most of the units (expect those flying fire/wasp thingies). My usual army composed of Medium Infantry in the middle accompanied by Light inf. and firebreathers in the flanks.

Keep up the good work, had much fun playing this.

[Saulot]

Thanks Burnsaber, that's good to hear.
Sorry for the delay, anyway; Version .30 of Urdheim is now available at the first post.

Changes from v.20 to v.30:

Attacksprite for Scion of Abraxas added
Fixed Bug with Summon Cursed/Gather Cursed spells
Scion of Sirrush from Earth/Death 10% to Earth 20% & Death 10%
Flamecast damage from 12+ to 9+, and AOE from 4+ to 5+
Flamecast now does secondary fatigue damage
Castigation of Sirrush from AOE 7+ to 5+, NOE from 1 to 2, Precision from 2 to 1
Firelord now has awe 0
Firelord now has 10% chance of Fire 2
Firelord HP from 15 to 22
Firelord goldcost from 140 to 220
Firelord resourcecost from 47 to 60
Firelord unrest from 2 to 3
Firelord firebrand autosummon 1 removed
Firelord firebrand makemonster1 (summon allies) added
Cursed strength from 6 to 8
Cursed attack from 11 to 15
Cursed defense from 11 to 12
Cursed morale from 17 to 99
Cursed now blind
Cursed now curses
Cursed now sometimes comes with afflictions
Cursed now called Cursed One
Blessed now called Blessed One


Hopefully this will fix more balance issues. Also, the readme now has a brief spell manual on the bottom.
Anyway, Enjoy!

[Sombre]

I'm not sure that giving morale 99 is a good idea - it has no special properties but it's so high that it could have some odd effects on the game. Better to give morale 40 or something - much the same effect, but less extreme.

[Saulot]

99 is a special number, which functions as gone berserk (never flee).
50 is mindless, 30 is standard unbreakable (flee when whole army flees).

Edit:
I'm still on the fence as to whether they should be mindless or not. The concept in question for the Cursed Ones having a fragmented mind could be argued either way, and I'm not terribly opposed to them dissolving, though it does change the balance up and down in more subtle ways as well. Future comments and further reflection may bring a stronger conclusion.

[Sombre]

It's true that berserk units have morale 99, but giving a unit morale 99 doesn't make them start/go berserk to my knowledge. I haven't tested it extensively though.

I didn't know about morale 30. Useful if it actually works.

[Saulot]

Well, no update this week, as things are getting close to where they should be (I think that every unit now has its use). I did however, bring the first post more up to date with where things are now. Anyway, if nobody brings up any more balance or usefulness concerns within the next month or so, I'll probably be able to release the final version for Urdheim (for v3.08 of Dominions) in mid August.
Once again, aside from the normal criticisms, any balance / hero / pretender suggestions are more than welcome.

For those who enjoyed Urdheim, and would like to see more, I've started work on something else, and that should hopefully be released sometime in late August.

[Humakty]

A very complete, and graphically nice mod. I've tested them on Glory of Gods map with all AI to difficult, and I've squashed helheim and maverni at the same time. I think armor piercing plus poison (double shot) is a bit strong for early age, specially against small elite armies which tend to get murdered in one volley. Maybe they have got less of an advantage against large armies of chaff (maybe...).
Your mod is one of the most complete I have seen so far, with plenty of new strategies to experiment.
Late august seem so far away.

[Amos]

I love your sprites! Very well done.