Recruitable Sub-Leaders
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Recruitable Sub-Leaders
Many maps are being made that have multiple Keeps. Currently, the strategy is to recruit enough units that you can rush another Keep and take command. This is fine and I think it works as a unique play style.
But what if you could recruit extra leaders to fill those other Keeps? To recruit a sub-leader, you select any unit from your standard recruit list (aside from scouts and Horsemen), and with a ticker box in the Recruit window, you can choose to pay 20 more gold to make that unit a Subordinate (Sub-Leader).
A Subordinate:
-May recruit on a Keep, just as your Leader can
-Has no traits, just like your Leader
-Is randomly named like any other unit
-Requires no upkeep, just like your Leader (you payed an extra 20 gold for it)
-Does not count towards win conditions. If a Subordinate is killed, you do not lose the game. Likewise, if your Leader is killed, you lose the game even if you have Subordinates.
I'm not entirely devoted to this idea (though I might use it in custom maps), it just came to me and I'm curious as to what others think of it. Thoughts?
But what if you could recruit extra leaders to fill those other Keeps? To recruit a sub-leader, you select any unit from your standard recruit list (aside from scouts and Horsemen), and with a ticker box in the Recruit window, you can choose to pay 20 more gold to make that unit a Subordinate (Sub-Leader).
A Subordinate:
-May recruit on a Keep, just as your Leader can
-Has no traits, just like your Leader
-Is randomly named like any other unit
-Requires no upkeep, just like your Leader (you payed an extra 20 gold for it)
-Does not count towards win conditions. If a Subordinate is killed, you do not lose the game. Likewise, if your Leader is killed, you lose the game even if you have Subordinates.
I'm not entirely devoted to this idea (though I might use it in custom maps), it just came to me and I'm curious as to what others think of it. Thoughts?
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Re: Recruitable Sub-Leaders
My first though: Either it's useless, or it's useful, and if it's useful, it takes away from the strategy of where to put your leader normally.FleshPeeler wrote:Thoughts?
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Uh, this forum is for, like, brainstorming and coming up with ideas, not for agreeing with people. Agreeing is for the other forums.Dragon Master wrote:I agree with EP
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i like this idea, i think it would be too easy for you to be able to recruit a unit like this.
instead i think it would be cool if this was implemented as a unit ability, maybe given to a lv3 unit. it could be balanced like leadership, the unit would not be as strong as most lv3 units, but they would have the ability to recruit on a keep.
instead i think it would be cool if this was implemented as a unit ability, maybe given to a lv3 unit. it could be balanced like leadership, the unit would not be as strong as most lv3 units, but they would have the ability to recruit on a keep.
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I've thought of variations on the theme before.
Some situations make me wonder about having a unit that lives in the keep or has to be hauled tediously to another one, and why is it even a unit at all. And also happens to be the team "flag". And how only one spawn can be used at a time, and castles can't be changed etc.
Have thought of various models/refactorings, but it's just imagining different game designs in the end.
Some situations make me wonder about having a unit that lives in the keep or has to be hauled tediously to another one, and why is it even a unit at all. And also happens to be the team "flag". And how only one spawn can be used at a time, and castles can't be changed etc.
Have thought of various models/refactorings, but it's just imagining different game designs in the end.
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Same here. I thought of experimenting with different map builds that would present interesting situations like this. The suggestion certainly was not for mainline Wesnoth, but rather to test the general reception of the idea for a custom map.Steelclad Brian wrote:If I get around to it, I hope to create a large-scale multiplayer map that allows the player to create sub-commanders. It's not a good idea for basic Wesnoth though.
It seems people are at least interested in seeing what could happen with this, so in the future I'll try my hand at a map like this.
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Recruiting subleader as a general rule would IMHO be too much change.Kel wrote:True, allowing more than one leader (or subleader) would be interesting for a campaign.
But it could be nice if scenario script could give you two leaders - maybe only for the selected scenarios. Maybe they should have different recruitment lists (think about when Konrad first cooperates with Li'sar in HTTT); maybe also different recall lists (unit can be recalled only by that leader which recruited it). From programming point of view, recruitment lists and recall lists would not be specified per side, but per leader.
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Yes, I always wondered what happened to those Ogres that were beating me around . . . I was disappointed when I couldn't summon them myself (in 1.0.2, I don't know if this was changed in 1.1.7).Viliam wrote:Recruiting subleader as a general rule would IMHO be too much change.Kel wrote:True, allowing more than one leader (or subleader) would be interesting for a campaign.
But it could be nice if scenario script could give you two leaders - maybe only for the selected scenarios. Maybe they should have different recruitment lists (think about when Konrad first cooperates with Li'sar in HTTT); maybe also different recall lists (unit can be recalled only by that leader which recruited it). From programming point of view, recruitment lists and recall lists would not be specified per side, but per leader.
It would also allow a player to play multiple factions at once, an interesting suggestion which would pose new binary strategies. Very, very intriguing . . . .
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Damn! Too slow!
I joind this forums to post this idea, guess someone best me to it!
Here is why I think it is a good idea:
I'm playing 3 player online, and I[blue] fight very hard against the red, while yellow just stands back slowly building his army. I finally finnish of the the red one, now what? I stand alone with a small army against a big one! If wasn't rewarded for beating the red, why should I even bother?
Waiting for the other two to beat each other is far the superior stradegy, but if everyone did it, it would be an endurence match, which are boring, and attacking one would put you in danger, so, to not get killed, you would just wait, and wait, and wait.... It would be a loooong boring match!
If I could take over his/her castle and recruite his/her soldiers(fx. if I am undead and s/he is orcish, I can recruite orcs with my subleader), I had a reson to fight the red one, and the yellow would be punished to just sit around waiting, balanceing the game by forcing him/her[yellow] to act and participate in the game, because s/he now must take over the red, or blue[mine], castle, to get an advantade in the battle, not just doing nothing.
That's my two cents...
Here is why I think it is a good idea:
I'm playing 3 player online, and I[blue] fight very hard against the red, while yellow just stands back slowly building his army. I finally finnish of the the red one, now what? I stand alone with a small army against a big one! If wasn't rewarded for beating the red, why should I even bother?
Waiting for the other two to beat each other is far the superior stradegy, but if everyone did it, it would be an endurence match, which are boring, and attacking one would put you in danger, so, to not get killed, you would just wait, and wait, and wait.... It would be a loooong boring match!
If I could take over his/her castle and recruite his/her soldiers(fx. if I am undead and s/he is orcish, I can recruite orcs with my subleader), I had a reson to fight the red one, and the yellow would be punished to just sit around waiting, balanceing the game by forcing him/her[yellow] to act and participate in the game, because s/he now must take over the red, or blue[mine], castle, to get an advantade in the battle, not just doing nothing.
That's my two cents...
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Now, THAT is not a good idea.wiscados wrote:I'm playing 3 player online,
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