Fallen Enchantress: Being the better person

I like what I am seeing; however, I am concerned that the AI may not be up to picking traits that mesh with a specific strategy.

Will the AI pick traits in accordance in accordance with the strategy it has choosen, will it pick them randomly or will it ignore strategy and follow a single set of rules to pick traits regardless of the strategy (if any)?

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Quoting Frogboy,

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Work in progress.

I hope that heavy armour and shields will significantly lower Initiative, and require a certain Strength to use - in WoM, there were no penalties for using the best, heaviest armour - so if you had enough gold, all your champions (be they Level 1 or 5) would just get kitted out in the best stuff available - which made no sense at all, and pretty much turned each one into the same, identical-looking tank.

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Quoting Mortenart,

reply 52

Quoting Frogboy, reply 39

Reduced 61%

Original 927 x 695

Work in progress.

I hope that heavy armour and shields will significantly lower Initiative, and require a certain Strength to use - in WoM, there were no penalties for using the best, heaviest armour - so if you had enough gold, all your champions (be they Level 1 or 5) would just get kitted out in the best stuff available - which made no sense at all, and pretty much turned each one into the same, identical-looking tank.

Agree.

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DsRaider

Join Date 11/2008

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Quoting Mortenart,

reply 52

I hope that heavy armour and shields will significantly lower Initiative, and require a certain Strength to use - in WoM, there were no penalties for using the best, heaviest armour - so if you had enough gold, all your champions (be they Level 1 or 5) would just get kitted out in the best stuff available - which made no sense at all, and pretty much turned each one into the same, identical-looking tank.

These have pretty much been confirmed in the following links.

https://forums.elementalgame.com/409834 - Dev Journal on Armies

https://forums.elementalgame.com/407109 - Dev Journal on Weapons

If you look at the actual spreadsheet on the Weapons page it shows speed penalties for heavy weapons. The encumber system also allows stronger units to use heavier or more gear. While weak ones have to pick and choose.

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Quoting DsRaider,

reply 54

These have pretty much been confirmed in the following links.

https://forums.elementalgame.com/409834 - Dev Journal on Armies

https://forums.elementalgame.com/407109 - Dev Journal on Weapons

If you look at the actual spreadsheet on the Weapons page it shows speed penalties for heavy weapons. The encumber system also allows stronger units to use heavier or more gear. While weak ones have to pick and choose.

This is excellent, many thanks Ds This gives me great hope for FE - it is the attention to detail that WoM was crying out for. Why it could not have been honed over the years of development and betas, I have no clue (well I do, but not going into that now..) I have developed and run many online combat games, and these weight and initiative factors were always amongst the first things that I sorted. Every good 'wargame' must have solid combat dynamics & mechanics - it's encouraging to see FE starting to tackle these a lot better now.

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