Eastern Invasion

[blackjack]

In 0.8.1, Weldyn Attack is extremely slow. For some reason, each move takes about 5 minutes. Might be an AI issue in that pathfinding is extremely difficult. I don't know what the reasons are...

I don't find it that difficult, all you have to do is to "choke" the main gates for as long as you can. However, the AI doesn't seem to be very good at it.

In 0.8.1, the scenario where you go to Weldyn is strange. To complete the level, you have to go to 2 specific villages. I think it's a WML bug, in that any castle hex should complete the level. Didn't find it all that challenging... Gweddry virtually walked back untouched. Fights only occurred because I attacked others.

Another point: in the intro, isn't Sudoc supposed to be the cavalry commander in the South? Why does he become a fencer in Peasant Revolt?

(Apologise if these have been fixed in 0.8.2 or CVS. Haven't played for a few days)

[Ewan]

OK - so being cave-wall-enclosed actually makes the duel trivial: recruit the wall guards, who are impervious and have ranged fire, and pick off the lich. But that's all kinda silly.


Plus: (i) some of the undead units actually managed to escape the walls on two of the turns (for no apparent reason); (ii) the keep stops being a keep after the first turn (possibly intentional, but apparently not true for the undead).

All very buggy still.

[Ewan]

Double-posting; sorry!

At the end of the duel, the intended scenario 'victory' is not present; I thought this campaign was now complete?

I've been trying to think of a motivation for Gweddry agreeing to the duel, given that he knows how easy it has been to resist the hordes thus far . Still, not a bad plot line if the dialogue (see previous post) can be cleaned up.

The more I think about it, the more 'attack on weldryn' is too easy on easy mode. Basically, the wall guards alone can hold the city, pretty much. I ended up going out and killing all the liches after their troops died at the wall. The son who is going to rebel might well be allowed to get more forces in place, too - that could get nasty (i.e. more fun).

[MadMax]

sorry about this, but

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							[kill]
							{NORTH_OF_BRIDGE}
							animate=yes
							[/kill]

should be

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							[kill]
							x=1-31,1-20
							y=21-24,18-20
							animate=yes
							[/kill]

I didn't realize that {NORTH_OF_BRIDGE} had [not] tags, and the code there now will kill every unit that is not north of the bridge!

[MadMax]

Forget what I just said. I was right the first time.

Sorry.

[turin]

In 0.8.1, Weldyn Attack is extremely slow. For some reason, each move takes about 5 minutes. Might be an AI issue in that pathfinding is extremely difficult. I don't know what the reasons are...

I don't find it that difficult, all you have to do is to "choke" the main gates for as long as you can. However, the AI doesn't seem to be very good at it.

I'm still working on this scenario.
Actually, FYI, you should consider all scenarios after Evacuation incomplete and probably unbalanced. I'm going to fix them ASAP.

In 0.8.1, the scenario where you go to Weldyn is strange. To complete the level, you have to go to 2 specific villages. I think it's a WML bug, in that any castle hex should complete the level. Didn't find it all that challenging... Gweddry virtually walked back untouched. Fights only occurred because I attacked others.

That is a bug,.. i'll try to fix it.

Again, they are unbalanced.

Another point: in the intro, isn't Sudoc supposed to be the cavalry commander in the South? Why does he become a fencer in Peasant Revolt?

(Apologise if these have been fixed in 0.8.2 or CVS. Haven't played for a few days)

His horse gets taken away.
Yes, something else would make more sense probably. Actually, i might want to just delete Peasant Revolt and let you recruit fencers from the beginning, or starting in a different scenario. And not every introduce Sudoc.

[cobretti]

I have a problem with this campaign. I played until Evasion (0.8.3 CVS) and on finishing it, it tried to take me to Peasants Revolt, but gave an error. Now (0.8.4 CVS) I saw next scenario has changed, so I hacked my savefile in Evasion to go to Drowned Plains, but I get 'The game could not be loaded: load_game_failed: No starting position for side 1', and it breaks.

I have looked at the map file, and there are a pair of keeps, but not numbered. I didn't look much inside the .cfg file, but since some people are talking about latter scenarios, I guess it should work. Any clues on what to do?

[turin]

Any clues on what to do?

Um, yeah... get CVS to get version with normal keeps.

[cobretti]

Any clues on what to do?

Um, yeah... get CVS to get version with normal keeps.

Done, thanks

Yet another one: In 'The Council', I get the whole conversation ok (btw, it went from Drowned Lands to Approaching Weldyn without any level between them, so now Sudoc doesn't appear at all), but then the game says 'Illegal character' and quits the campaign.

[turin]

Um, yeah... get CVS to get version with normal keeps.

Done, thanks

Yet another one: In 'The Council', I get the whole conversation ok (btw, it went from Drowned Lands to Approaching Weldyn without any level between them, so now Sudoc doesn't appear at all), but then the game says 'Illegal character' and quits the campaign.

does it say it when trying to load Weldyn Under Attack? If so, i think i know what the problem is... i'll try to fix it soon.

[lilepo2023]

try the first levels of this campaign on easy an tell me if u think its a lil... different...

[turin]

try the first levels of this campaign on easy an tell me if u think its a lil... different...

I changed the dialogue a lot, if thats what you mean...

[Elvish_Pillager]

@túrin: Captured is really unbalanced. In my last (and only) time I've reached captured, I was in Easy mode. It was pretty difficult.

1) I was playing in the version with the bugs, but it made no difference. I had spent the entire campaign levelling up horsemen, so I had no units that would have been recalled.
2) The Troll Warrior... has it been changed on Easy? When I fought it, I had all three of my heroes end up at very low HP. And that was the second try. Not very easy. Make it a Troll on Easy.

[turin]

@túrin: Captured is really unbalanced. In my last (and only) time I've reached captured, I was in Easy mode. It was pretty difficult.

1) I was playing in the version with the bugs, but it made no difference. I had spent the entire campaign levelling up horsemen, so I had no units that would have been recalled.
2) The Troll Warrior... has it been changed on Easy? When I fought it, I had all three of my heroes end up at very low HP. And that was the second try. Not very easy. Make it a Troll on Easy.

1) if you want to only level up one unit, be prepared for there to be consequences. If you only leveled up horsemen in HttT, i think you'd find The Lost General kind of hard.

2) Good idea (but ONLY on easy.)

[Elvish_Pillager]

1) if you want to only level up one unit, be prepared for there to be consequences.

Another consequence is that I completely SLAUGHTERED those enemies in Evactuation. Grand Knights and Lancers are great for taking down Orcish Warlords in one round, and my castles full of horsemen were effective too.