Mod New Nation: Dinnas'Arval

VedalkenBear · #12 April 29th, 2007, 02:19 PM

Looking at this some more, I have a few specific comments and a few generic ones.

1) You are only giving 5 total gems on the capital sites. It does seem like the general rule is 6 in EA. What is your rationale for deviating from this?

2) The commanders _seem_ fairly priced, but I was getting an awful lot of randoms (the non-100% ones), it seemed.
2a) Side note: You might want to start with an Assassin instead of a Priestess. That's a really good early research boost.

3) Barbarian King Hero needs his 'mount's' weapons designated so that he doesn't take multiweapon penalties for them. (I believe that's #extra or #bonus.)

On a more general note, it plays well, though a bit more attritive than I'd like. My main concern is that why would I play this over, say, Niefelheim? This has a lot of the same drawbacks of Niefelheim (i.e., very expensive mages, no cheap mages, no cheap blood hunters, etc.), but few of its benefits. Now, the mages are sacred which helps quite a bit in upkeep issues, and I received quite a few good mercs early so my expansion was rapid, but even so I was rather concerned over my early gold issues.

Now the mages themselves are quite possibly the best sorcerers in the game, with the High Priestess able to get 4S, 4N, or 4B. (Not sure about 4D, but I don't think so.) And in the game I've been playing for the past hour and a half or so, I got all 3. I also got a SSDDNNBB one, which was quite nice.

I guess one of my pet peeves is that certain magic paths (and particularly certain combinations of magic paths) occur much more frequently than others. To take this example, all the Jotunheims, Sauromatia, and BF Ulm have more or less the exact same magic (varying degrees, but same magic). And now this mod as well. This is just my feeling on the matter, but I like mods because they offer new options, and this mod doesn't offer me as much as some others.

This general issue is, I want to stress, my _personal opinion_ on the matter and I don't think Juzza should change the mod based on it.