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Old May 14th, 2008, 12:43 PM

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I didn't forget that units that are out of ammo keep firing. I had no idea that happened. I've never seen it happen in a game or read anything on the forums about it.

Of course they do. Anyone can send a thug without damage ability to fight PD with crossbows and witness it themselves.

Once the ammo runs out, they charge, and then point-blank fire.

Or maybe it was the Penitents or the 2 trolls that killed the Tartarian. Yeah, the two trolls couldn't even dish out enough damage to kill the Tartarian if it were paralyzed, and had a protection of 0. The Luck and the Regen alone would stop them. Of course, the Invincibility completely neutralizes the Pentitents BY ITSELF. So yeah, one Hoch-Hammer killed a fully-equiped Tartarian.

Have you heard the one about glass houses, Sombre?

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I just checked, and crossbowman look like they fire more volleys than that, but that is because some are out of range in the beginning, and some are not, so they fire every round.. but only half or so fire, so you get a count of around 20 volleys. But only half or so are firing every volley.

So I officially have no idea how Hoch-boy killed a Tartanian, except that the Tartanian did die with nothing but Hoch Hammer, Penitents, and two trolls.
It had cast:
<Invunerbility><Earth Power><Iron Will><hold><hold><Attack Closest>. It had luck from an item, regen of 20%, and a base hitpoints of 170. None of the others have anything like the damage capacity to bring him down. It's possible the Hoch Hammer 'saved' his Spirit Hammer throw till he could deliver it point blank, but it's still messed up.
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Old May 14th, 2008, 01:01 PM
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I didn't forget that units that are out of ammo keep firing. I had no idea that happened. I've never seen it happen in a game or read anything on the forums about it.

Of course they do. Anyone can send a thug without damage ability to fight PD with crossbows and witness it themselves.

Once the ammo runs out, they charge, and then point-blank fire.

Or maybe it was the Penitents or the 2 trolls that killed the Tartarian. Yeah, the two trolls couldn't even dish out enough damage to kill the Tartarian if it were paralyzed, and had a protection of 0. The Luck and the Regen alone would stop them. Of course, the Invincibility completely neutralizes the Pentitents BY ITSELF. So yeah, one Hoch-Hammer killed a fully-equiped Tartarian.

Have you heard the one about glass houses, Sombre?
Hmm. What was that glass house remark about? Please stay civil.

Archers do not point blank fire if they are out of ammo. They fight in melee with whatever weapon they have. Often a dagger or a short sword. Sometimes a fist.

Why are you upset with the mod? It is a mod after all. If you find something in the vanilla game that upsets you I would like to knew it so I could consider fixing it. I do lot's of balancing mistakes. Some issues emerges with new abilities, others appear as units are boosted or nerfed too much.

The same goes for most mod makers, but they do not have ten years of dominions experience to back up their balancing. They make something up, let people play and enjoy, collect feedback and improve. If you play a mod, you should be aware that it is not official and only a nice gesture from a creative and friendly modder. There is no need to attack him for making a mod that you do not have to use if you dislike it.

EDIT: Hmm sorry, I might have misunderstood and overstated your point.
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Old May 14th, 2008, 02:44 PM

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I just checked, and crossbowman look like they fire more volleys than that, but that is because some are out of range in the beginning, and some are not, so they fire every round.. but only half or so fire, so you get a count of 20 volleys. But only half or so are firing every volley.

So I officially have no idea how Hoch-boy killed a Tartanian, except that the Tartanian did die with nothing but Hoch Hammer, Penitents, and two trolls. None of the others have anything like the damage capacity to bring him done. It's possible the Hoch Hammer 'saved' his Spirit Hammer throw till he could deliver it point blank, but it's still messed up.
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If he saved the spirit hammers and fired them at point blank range they would shred pretty much any undead. They're 10 16 damage (no strength added) projectiles with AP and the holy bonus vs undead. But if you were actually in close combat, it couldn't have fired. I hadn't realised the spirit hammers were still AP. That is actually a leftover from when they did less damage, so that will be changed in the next version. They'll still do a huge amount of damage to any undead/demons though.

If you were in close combat it would have taken a swing with the white hammer which is dmg 9, not holy, with secondary effect of holy fire I believe. The hochhammer commander is basically an anti undead/demon thug. I would suggest that sending either of these against it isn't a great idea.

Forget about complaining regarding anything else because you've given me no reason to listen to you.
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Old May 14th, 2008, 03:50 PM

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Forget about complaining regarding anything else because you've given me no reason to listen to you.

Except the point where your going to change something because it is ridicilious and you won't even bother to defend it.

But heh, maybe you could try. You looked like you were getting ready with that 'well it's stupid to send Tartanians against The Hoch'. Because you know, the The Hoch is meant to kill Princes of Death.... oops, kind of gave the exploit away there didn't I?
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I'm changing an oversight where I literally forgot to comment out #armourpiercing. I would have found it regardless of your tantrum, because I needed to go through and change the weapon IDs for the next version.

Why would I defend what amounts to a typo? I have no idea where you got such a hard on for me and I don't care.

Edit: What is it about monkey nations that brings out the trolls?
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Drake49,

It's not so much that Sombre thinks he's infallible as that he doesn't want to deal with the hostility. I was rather taken-aback myself at your response to his initial "munkey pd is teh weekest it is always loosing just look in ne game u will c 4 urslef" joke. I think someone needs to ease up on the tension here.

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Edit: What is it about monkey nations that brings out the trolls?
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