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lwa wrote:Here is my Mac build of the Battle for Wesnoth 1.1.3.
It is expected to work on any Mac, PPC or Intel, with OS greater or equal to 10.3.9.

WooHoo!

I love grunts. :D 12gold is fantastic for such useful units. Of course right behind them are Mages and Dark Adepts, IMO. Of differing types of usefulness, of course. I could never spam mages and expect to win. The most worthless unit to me is the drake glider. Fighters seem to make them a bit obsol...

wow. awesome.
nuff said.

Flametrooper wrote:The point of the assassin, though, is not to damage. The point is to poison.

And what exactly does poisoning a wose do besides prevent it from gaining 8hp the very next turn? In effective, causing 8 damage?

Poison stops a wose regenerating... So in essence, the first assassin that attacks a wose that turn does 3-3+8 damage(2-3 @ day, 4-3 @ night). Whereas an archer would do 8d2 @ day, 10d2 @ dusk/dawn, and 13d2 @ night. Considering a wose is typically on 20-30% defense, I would take the archer at all ...

For appleide: Knalgans versus Loyalists Poacher: The best countering unit to Loyalists. His multiple strikes are of better use against the high defense Fencer, his ranged Pierce is great against the mounted units, his attack does 4-4 to HI at night, and this is the unit you'll want to use against S...

Since I just commented on them in knalgans. I'll outline one situation where I think they're definitely worth it over thieves. Charge, player 1. Recruiting a footpad in 10,2 or 10,3 guarantees turn 2 village @ 3,1 which leads into turn 3 village @ 1,4. With a thief, you'd have to reach 3,1 @ turn 3,...

A couple notes to add about general northerner strategies: (1) grunts vs. trolls. This is highly map dependent. Trolls are good in hills and mountains. Nowhere else. If you see an opportunity to park a troll or two on mountains, then they're definitely worth it. But mountainless maps and maps withou...

Noy, What would you do to someone who recruits only Cavalry (For villages) and the hold villages/advance with Heavy Infantry?? Umm, someone who's using cavalry for villages won't be holding their villages very long. Oh, also, in almost all cases a thunderer is better than a poacher vs. cavalry. Sim...

I think all three of the outlaws fill similar purposes. Their three primary advantages are (a) They have good defenses where dwarves don't, (b) they're faster than the majority of dwarves, and (c) they cost less than dwarves. Playing knalgans, you typically need some units to fill all three purposes...

Woops... There dies another little piece of Noy.

I tried the campaign. I found it a bit easy. Strategy was the key. The drakes easily conquered the outlaws on the left with the help of 2 augur's from the elf, spearmen and a mage. For some reason, the comp sent half it's initial recruit northwards, so sweeping in to finish the only half that was in...

right, that kind of idea helps control how much "input" or mana you can put into a spell. Still, how do you judge a spell's efficacy? eg. take your falling sands example. If I tried to create an illusion, what kind of sand formation produces what kind of illusion, and how strong is it? Or ...

It would be fun to play a game where spellcasting worked somewhat similar to the sand editor. Wow... so many posts and no one addressed your topic, really. I think it's a fantastic idea. i just don't know if it's implementable. The key conundrum with an "art" based magic system is evaluat...

lmao. I stopped playing shortly after The Dark. Which is probably before most of you started playing. I still have a Mox Jet and certain cards like a Beta fungasaur. They're still wandering around somewhere in a box in a closet somewhere along with baseball cards I used to collect. oh, and JW was ri...