Mod: Ogre Kingdoms - MA Warhammer Nation - 0.9 minor update

[HoneyBadger]

I don't know if you'd consider it, but it might be slightly more thematic if the slave giants themselves had a low chance of gaining 1 point in Air magic, since they're supposed to be the inbred and degraded scions of the Sky Giants, from what I understand. Maybe once in a great while, one of them breeds true?

[Sombre]

Slave giants are even more stupid and basic than normal giants, due to repeated clubbing to the head and general mistreatment. We're talking an intelligence level somewhere between an orc and a troll here. I'm also not sure that the Sky Giants would have had any inherent magic either. They were definitely more intelligent and they might have had mages, since they had some sort of civilisation, but I'm guessing the mages would have had to study and train like most. Slave Giants obviously have zero opportunity to study or train at anything other than A) being chained to the floor and B) Smashing things on the rare occasion they are let loose.

Besides which who would build a 400 gold unit for 1 point of air magic? The only thing he could use it for is the lowest level self buffs.

[HoneyBadger]

Well, they already have poor research, which I think reflects the generally low IQ and poor test results of the Ogre Kingdom as a whole The air magic would reflect an inherant affinity, rather than skill or training. They'd just be predisposed towards air, occasionally, like Trolls are to earth.

And you'd still be paying 400 gold for the Slave Giant, it just would maybe make you stop and think a little bit more about them, if you got the occasional one with air magic.

I'd definitely give the Slave Giants a great big negative research bonus (who's going to use them for researching, anyway?), but it's an opportunity for the nation to have a different outlet for whatever the Ogres *do* research, so while it might not directly influence their researching a whole lot, it might give them more reason to bother.