[eWIP] Dogs of War v0.9

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war!

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[edit] v0.9a up -- now Stormworld Compatible.

This mod is a work in progress.  It adds the sovereign and champion level-up ability "Kennel Master".

At the start of each battle, Kennel masters auto-summon a pair of war dogs at half their level. My intent is to make these fairly weak damage-wise, but with specialized maul and bash abilities (both auto) that you can use to drag down an enemy for a turn.

I figure I'll release this as a multi-instance mod, so folks can choose how they are included in the game.  My ideas so-far are:

  • Special combat auto-summon (current version)
  • Strategic summon (the below pic)
  • City-based production, consuming wargs, maybe with a special tech and building.

 

If anyone has any other suggestions, let me know.


Current leveling likeliness is (common?) so your hired champs can give them a try.

 

http://fallenenchantress.nexusmods.com/mods/31

 

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

These fellas would be perfect as a world resource recruit center, like we can recruit Dragons, Wildings, Darklings and those guys. You find an old world resource that is an established kennel where they've breeded war dogs for hundreds of years. For some influence and gildar they'll rebuild their facilities and provide you with dogs every now and then.

 

If you wish to make it Stormworld compatible, add

      <UnitStat_BG_IsMonster>1</UnitStat_BG_IsMonster>
      <UnitStat_BG_IsBeast>1</UnitStat_BG_IsBeast>

to the first level milestone. It will not cause issues if someone uses the mod without stormworld.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top
cool mod, but please change the name of the trait: Kennel Master is already used by the Additional Faction Traits Mod :)

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top


a bunch of them could be guarding a lair (that abandoned kennel HF was writing about)

and please don't call them Anna :)

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top
HF, why do you consider these as monsters?
Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

All units that aren't humanoid are monsters in Stormworld.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top
I see :)
 
OT: did you take a look at the heroes mod? seems like that one would also need unitstat tags for the new heroes
Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Not yet, and yes.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Heavenfall, reply 1
If you wish to make it Stormworld compatible, add...
End of Heavenfall's quote

Done, v0.9a Stormworld Compatible file is up.

Quoting Heavenfall, reply 1
These fellas would be perfect as a world resource recruit center, like we can recruit Dragons, Wildings...
End of Heavenfall's quote

Excellent idea -- I forgot about those things!  Guess I'll have to start my first bit of tile work.

Quoting crimsongekko, reply 2
but please change the name of the trait: Kennel Master
End of crimsongekko's quote

Noted, I'll make sure it's changed for v1.0.  I'm having trouble coming up with something cool sounding, so feel free to throw some suggestions my way.

Quoting Sentinemodo, reply 3
a bunch of them could be guarding a lair
End of Sentinemodo's quote

That gives me an awesome idea.  Thanks!

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top
I'd go with "Dogs of War" but that's already in the addfactiontraits mod also :D
 
I'll come up with something eventually... what about "Wolf Companion" ?
Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Well, I wanted to distinguish these guys from wolves, since there are already so many of them in the game.

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

How about War Dogs.   Or Battle Hounds.

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top

How about Attack Hounds

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

it seems wardogs act funny in tactical combat: sometimes maul doesn't work, sometimes enemies get counterattacks they shouldn't be getting. 

Reply #15 from Elemental Forums Top

It's still v0.9 -- I just threw it together the other night.  I'll work on it some more for v1.0

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

The Wardog Breeder world resource in dev...  :grin: