Mod Ogre Kingdoms - MA Warhammer Nation - 0.9 minor update

llamabeast · #1 September 17th, 2007, 06:48 AM

He is totally a pirate!

Look at him, he's like the main baddy in Pirates of the Caribbean (whose name I have annoyingly forgotten).

Sombre · #2 September 17th, 2007, 07:17 AM

Ok he's a pirate

But a pirate OGRE. With mor 30.

Sombre · #3 September 17th, 2007, 07:18 AM

Oh and bonus points to anyone who recognises the symbol on the Eastern Maneater's back-banner.

Sombre · #4 September 17th, 2007, 02:10 PM

Ok, the latest beta is up. Go to the first post to get it.

Attaching preview image to this post. Will then display on first post.

llamabeast · #5 September 17th, 2007, 05:00 PM

Preview looks very nice (although can't play it at the moment). Graphics are really awesome.

A couple of graphical comments if you don't mind (on the understanding that they'er all excellent anyway): The fourth guy down on the left (gnoblar gnoblar ogre OGRE) - his left hand looks a bit funny somehow. Kind of wasted. Don't know why. Also, maybe it should move in the attack sprite.

Why does the eastern whatsit have a red face? It kind of looks like he has antennae too, and I keep on seeing him as a telly tubby.

Boron · #6 September 17th, 2007, 06:57 PM

Thanks Sombre

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Why are the maneaters so expensive though? 100 seems too pricey. 40-50 would be ok, but 100?

Sombre · #7 September 17th, 2007, 08:54 PM

llama: That ogre has a choppa in his right hand and an ironfist on his left. I could make the ironfist move in the attack sprite, but I've learned that spending too much effort on something people barely see outside of the preview isn't a great idea. I might redraw it if people think it looks fruity though. The Eastern Maneater is wearing a red kabuki mask. I could tone down the colour I guess.

Boron: If Maneaters were 40-50 I figure no-one would build anything but Maneaters. They are supposed to be rather rare, expensive and and situational units, not stuff you crank out every turn. What I might do is decrease their resource cost (they're basically mercenaries after all). I will decrease the gold cost if people don't build them though.

Noble713 · #8 September 19th, 2007, 04:27 AM

Does dominion spread just like with Mictlan (i.e. blood sacrifice ONLY) or do prophets and temples work? My dominion grew a bit faster than I had expected, with only sacrifices in my capital.

I'm still trying to figure out how to play this nation, and really the game in general. At first I took the titan for an early SC rush, but then I wasted him researching...only to realise that researching isn't very important for Ogres. Likewise, I piled a bunch of blood magic on him...not too useful there either. I think I'll take another powerful Pretender and maybe try a bless strategy too. I don't want to take a stationary Pretender (seems contrary to the whole "nomadic" thing) and I don't want to take one of the human-sized ones either (too weedy for a nation of Ogres).