Unit history

dogscoff · Post by **dogscoff** » June 20th, 2005, 11:08 am

Probably been suggested beofre, but I wasn't sure what to search for:

It would be nice if each unit carried a little history with it, just for RP and 'bonding' reasons. Maybe on the right-click menu. In particular, I'd like to know when the unit was first recruited. Obviously adding information like this to each unit would increase the savegame file, but perhaps the feature could be toggled on/off.

Other unit information that could be recorded: (in ascending order of pointlessness)

1-Battles that the unit has served in.
2-List of kills that the unit has scored.
3-Total kills by that type of unit. (ie all horsemen)
4-As 2 and 3 above, but broken down by scenario.
5-Kills/losses ratio for that kind of unit.

On a similar note, some after-battle stats would be nice: Units recruited/ recalled/found, units killed/ lost etc - all exportable to text files for the statistical uber-geeks among us.

unsung · Post by **unsung** » June 20th, 2005, 11:37 am

This seems like a good idea to me. i have been wondering how many kills some of mine have.

scott · Post by **scott** » June 20th, 2005, 1:40 pm

The idea is fine by me, but that's all we need - for people to become MORE attached to their units.

unsung · Post by **unsung** » June 20th, 2005, 2:00 pm

welll of course im attached to them, level three units are critcal to my staragey. if they die thats o ne thing. if it dies and I cant just r ecruit another its annoying. really anoyying.

Post by **Thrawn** » June 20th, 2005, 3:07 pm

I'm not sure if this is relavent, but if you go into the save file, at the bottom it does give some stats like that but on a broader basis.

shouldn't be to hard to do. (disclaimer: I have no real knowlege, but this is my impression)

ozymandias · Post by **ozymandias** » June 20th, 2005, 4:06 pm

I like it. Collecting this type of information in a more general matter, maybe for the statistics screen, could help for balancing purposes, too.

Cuyo Quiz · Post by **Cuyo Quiz** » June 20th, 2005, 4:24 pm

When an undead of mine goes lvl 2, i normally give them a name.

This also keeps it with the fact that in TDH the more advanced undeads have developed osme kind of personality.

Warrior King · Post by **Warrior King** » June 20th, 2005, 4:37 pm

unsung wrote:This seems like a good idea to me. i have been wondering how many kills some of mine have.

same here. i like this idea.

Matthias[Wlkp] · Post by **Matthias[Wlkp]** » June 20th, 2005, 5:51 pm

Unit stats would be nice

. Enemies killed, damage inflicted, damage taken, etc.

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » June 20th, 2005, 6:27 pm

"ElviÃƒÂ³r, your Elvish Champion, was recruited into your army during the battle of Blackwater Port, and was promoted to a Hero in his first battle, though he was gravely wounded. He served valiantly at the Bay of Pearls, the Siege of Elensefar, where he was promoted to a Champion, and the Princess's Battlefield, where he was gravely wounded.

He has slain 38 of the foe with his sword, and 7 more with his bow. Unfortunately, an unlucky fate must be on him, since although he should by rights have dealt out a total of 415 damage over the course of his career, he only succeeded in inflicting 322, and though he should only have taken 210 damage, he was dealt 238 damage by his enemies."

Wouldn't it be immesurably cool if we could get it to automatically generate things like this?

Disto · Post by **Disto** » June 20th, 2005, 8:30 pm

Yeh, this would be soooo cool. We'd need lots of different ones so not to be repetive, we could add it into their descriptions.

ozymandias · Post by **ozymandias** » June 21st, 2005, 12:33 am

Well, discriptions are per unit type, while we would need something for individual units - wherever name and traits are kept track of, I suppose.

Maybe we could get a per-unit history added to the description when we hit "d", or use a new key (like "i" for "info") and give it it's own window.

Post by **Dave** » June 21st, 2005, 1:48 am

This is an idea I've had since the beginning, and yes I do think it'd be pretty cool....

Attila · Post by **Attila** » June 21st, 2005, 2:31 am

ozymandias wrote:Well, discriptions are per unit type, while we would need something for individual units - wherever name and traits are kept track of, I suppose.

Maybe we could get a per-unit history added to the description when we hit "d", or use a new key (like "i" for "info") and give it it's own window.

Or a much shorter version than EP's that appears when you mouse over the unit's name.

And then for dead units it would be slightly longer

An example format:

"[unit name], the [unit type], is the most [adjective*] of [use type**]s. [gender specific pronoun] was recruited [preposition***] [scenario where recruit], and served dutifully through [#number of battles in], killing [number of kills] enemies, and inflicting [amount of damage]."

if dead add:
"[unit name] was killing during service to [gender specific possesive pronoun] lord [preposition] [scenario where killed]."

if dead level 0 or 1 add:
"It is a shame [gender specific pronoun] was killed so young, having never reached [gender specific possessive pronoun] fighting ability"

if dead level 3+ add:
"Dieing most honorably in battle, [unit name] shall always be remember as a fearsome warrior, who died a true hero"

*traits (example: the most strong and quick)
**fighter, archer, scout, etc (mixed fighter would be as fighter)
***"at" if scenario name is a place, "during" if scenario name is a event

kangounator · Post by **kangounator** » June 23rd, 2005, 1:35 pm

it would be really intersting to know at the end of a campaign how many unit were killed by this one