The Battle for Wesnoth Forums

I daresay you might change that evaluation if a vampire decided to begin feeding on you. That's just stereotyping. Not all vampires have to blood-thirsty psycho killing machines, just as not all humans are like you. Not that I disagree with the sentiment "kill the bloodsuckers". Wesnoth has only ro...

I believe the Dwarf-Women-Have-Beards thing comes from Pratchett. His dwarves are almost asexual beings. Women have beards, they wear the same chainmail-and-leather setup as the men and they're just as proficient with the occasional axe as the men. In fact, even dwarven mating rituals reflect this: ...

Other possible uses: 1) To show if a unit is in a particularly bad terrain for them. 2) To show if a unit is in their native terrain. Forest for Woses and units with Ambush, water for water-dwelling units. I mean, c'mon. Don't you want to see nagas wobbling about the ground like the pair of mackerel...

1 & 2) If it's cheap enough, I don't believe it should be able to capture cities, or roll back fog. Too much punch to it.

Zhukov wrote:The only hitch with your idea is that someone needs to draw all these terrain specific sprites.

I was more of thinking about new units. Skiiers, kayakers, mountain-climbers, tarzans.

zookeeper wrote:Can be done in the next release.

How excellent. I say, this Ideas forum really works! That must have taken only a few minutes.

Basically a unit that could be bought for cheap or summoned/created by another unit in a recruiting-area hex or whatever, which would act as a decoy. The decoy would have these attributes: It looks like some other unit. If it is clicked by an enemy, it is showed with the original units stats. It mov...

I think it could be useful to have some way to change what sprite a character has depend on what terrain they're standing on or walking through. This way, you could have units with skis or small boats that are 'in rest' on ordinary ground, but 'used' on snow or water.

Dragon Master wrote:Has anyone ever thought of making a unit requiring zero movement on a certain terrain?

The original post was just about semi-teleporting units. It's only incidental that Wesnoth works so strange with movement zero.

Frankly, I don't give a damn. Though I would have prefered a game without elves, dwarves and orcs, dragon do work well with them and other assorted E-Zcenario stuff. Sidenotedly, you can see that even Wesnoth's setting follows programming philosophy... KISS, WINR and the principle of least surprise....

I suspect that a more working solution for a unit that can move insane amounts of space through certain terrains would be a unit with an insane amount of MP, and with insane amounts of MP needed for moving through anything put whatever they're supposed to teleport through. So, an Elvish Seer who can...

Tux2B wrote:Do you see one on the unit displayed in game?

Of course I don't.

May I suggest the use of a dog muzzle that could be easily opened for when the riders go into battle? A dog-muzzle could be used for attaching reins, plus it makes sense to have muzzles of giant, blood-thirsty wolves five times as large as their riders... EDIT: The picture would, of course, have an ...

The water could be made more interesting even without showing the bottom - huge waves, currents, etc.

I would also like to suggest a quick idea: at the end of fights between units, the health of those units could be shown in a clearer fashion - eg. with floating numbers of some sort (though I can't think of any game, hextrategic or JRPG that does it that way). Possibly the health of battling units c...