Cyndrum demons, butchermen, and everything with that troop stealing ability can now only gain a max of 5 units from their ability. I liked it better when they could gain max stack size, but it's working as intended.
When you research Trading, it should only unlock roads within your own empire. It should not give you roads that link from your empire to your enemies', and if it does then that's a bug.
There's an extremely difficult quest that one can do in order to obtain a dragon, rated either deadly or epic level. Right now, however, there seems to be an issue with AI sovereigns automatically completing any quest they go on, no matter how difficult. This is probably how Magnar got a dragon so early in the game. Note that I'm assuming this is still early game, before turn 100. Otherwise, HF's reply works.
Only certain items and monsters have counterattack. Swords give one counterattack per round, unless otherwise noted in their mouseover info. Creatures like wolves and stalkers also have counterattack. Most units, therefore, will not be able to counterattack.
I have seen this bug as well.
Robes now count for both breatplate and leg armor. Their category just needs to be renamed to "robe" or something similar.
I like Curgen's Mirror or Realm of Blood and Tears, personally.
Because regeneration would tick every time the regenerating unit would act, rather than having its own "turn" to regenerate everyone with the ability. This meant that a high-init, high-move unit was essentially immortal against a single opponent, and could recover from any non-fatal injuries taken before the end of a battle, good as new. Anyway, Sean and Tuidjy already answered your question pretty well, but I'll add this: barring other modifiers, 1 init is 1 extra act
I'm pretty sure the Trogs eat infants and drink souls, but close enough :P
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Kraxis has a unique ability to "buy" an opposing city for ~200 influence. It has a crazy-long cooldown, but that's probably what he used to get your city. The hanging issue is a bug, but can sometimes be fixed by saving and reloading.
IMO, it'd make more sense for the dragons to breathe whatever element they're immune to; IE, storm dragons have lightning breath, poison dragons have poison breath, etc. They probably should use their breath attacks whenever possible, as well. Not that I want them to, as I like being able to kill a dragon with just my sov and a couple henchmen :D
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[quote who="seanw3" reply="8" id="3255259"]Sounds like they have made it harder to get a surrender.[/quote] That's been my impression as well, and to be honest, I'm all right with that.
This issue has been around for a while. About as long as the floating waterfalls, IIRC. I have seen it as well.
OH MY GOD YES! I have been saying it for months now, though it's possible someone mentioned it before me. Thank you Sean, for implementing this, so that I don't have to learn XML to do so :D
There are no longer prereqs for unit traits. Derek said they took 'em out around .99 or so. You get every trait on turn 1.
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I have seen this as well, though I normally keep surrender level set to normal. However, it is extremely odd to see a solo sovereign with no cities refuse to surrender to an opponent with 8, whose army is standing next to her, ready to kill.
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Really, HF? Only 46? I'm surprised.
I do not believe that we are entitled to recruiting enemy sovereigns upon their defeat. It's a nice bonus when they decide to surrender, but I get the feeling that most would rather die than bend knee to another channeler. Kinda like how IRL, rulers not democratically elected usually only pass on the crown upon their death (peaceful or not).
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I've put in about 50 hours, according to the clock.
Actually, bows having a slow initiative makes good sense, even in the real world. In an ideal situation, you can fire, at most, about 8 arrows a minute with a reasonable degree of accuracy. Throw in the chaos of war, and you're down to about 6 arrows a minute if you want to hit the thing you're shooting at, and not your buddy in the front lines. Longbows (traditional English ones, at least) are even slower, but make up for it in range and stopping power. Shortb
I believe the game is ready for release. No doubt about it.
I do not like the way bows are currently implemented. At all. There should be slow, hard-hitting bows, and fast, weaker bows, both of which are unlocked and upgraded when you research ranged techs. The starter bow should be fast and weak, not slow and weak.
I usually play as a custom sovereign, though I find both Resoln and Altar to be pretty good vanilla races. Of the two, I'd say Resoln for a quicker game (Crow Demons are crazy-strong when they get some experience, and Grave Elementals are tough as nails, and both come free when you build a shard).
Very cool cutscene. Kinda wish we had been able to see a little bit more, though I did notice your starting city is called Resoln. Hmmmmm... [e digicons]*_*[/e]
I love reading your playthroughs, Tuidjy, especially when they're written in-character. I also like the idea of posting a Turn 1 save for others to play through, though there's no way I'd be able to stomach playing on Ridiculous. Challenging is as high as I'm willing to go at the moment.