Random Picks and Modding...

[Scott Hebert]

I understand, Johan. What I am doing is the following:

Example: base priest

Infantry: 10 (This is the cost to be an infantry commander. It presumes you are straight 10s in combat stats, Encumbrance of 3, base protection of 0, with no Leadership, Magic, or Specials.)

HP(9): -1 (HP, like most stats, are assumed to be a base of 10. If you deviate from that, you cost more/less depending on it.)

Prot(0): 0
Mrl(10): 0
MR(13): 3
Enc(4): -1
Str(9): -1
Att(7): -3
Def(7): -3
Prc(10): 0

Totaling the stat points, I get -6.

Leadership(10): 5

As stated above, a Normal Leadership of 10 is worth 5 points.

Magic(HH): 20

This is right off of Illwinter's site. The Priest has no 'Specials', so totaling:

Infantry: 10
Stats: -6
Leadership: 5
Magic: 20
Total: 29

Does this match Illwinter's projected cost for a Priest? No, it doesn't. OTOH, it may be more fair. As it stands, a Priest is good for a few things:

1. Building temples, preaching, and banishing undead. This is presumed to be part of the 20-pt. cost for a Holy-2 person.

2. Moving troops around. Unfortunately, a commander that won't die to the first attack from a militia and that can move more troops, costs the same (by this formula).

Basically, I feel that in cases such as this, charging 30g for a body that simply cannot fight (or even stand up in a fight) is too much. 10 is much more reasonable.

One of the main purposes of this exercise is to find where the balance points are in commander creation. Armed with the results of this exercise, I plan to do a 'rebalance' mod similar to Saber Cherry's, except apply it to the commanders, across the board.