Silver Mage BUG !

[Yomar]

The changelog says that the Silver Mage is not anymore available as leader in Age Of Heroes, but that's true only for Loyalist, If I choose the Rebels, I can still select the Silver Mage as the leader for Elves.
This unbalances the game.

Here is the extract of the full chamgelog: "* Multiplayer:
* Silver Mage no longer allowed as a leader in Age of Heroes"

I'm using Wesnoth 1.12.2

[Xalzar]

...Age Of Heroes...
This unbalances the game.

Age of Heroes is not meant to be balanced.

That said, it was surely an oversight.

[Elvish_Hunter]

That said, it was surely an oversight.

It indeed was. This was the commit message from Alarantalara about the Silver Mage removal:

Remove Silver Mage as a leader for Age of Heroes as per bug #19595.

The mobility is truly insane on maps with multiple keeps.

The bug report mentioned there says:

The Silver Mage is included in the list of leaders for Age of Heroes, because it's movement statistic is six. However this seems to be an oversight, since the Teleport ability means that its effective movement is much higher.

... There seems to be a consensus that removing this as a leader option (from both Loyalists and Rebels) would improve the balance of the era.

So, the plan was to remove the Silver Mage from both, but for some reason it got removed only from the Loyalists.
While I can't fix it for the 1.12 series due to the feature freeze, I fixed it in master (commit 0e36bedb843d61ff66aa800d68ba7ebd8f71e6ad).

[Iris]

Backported to 1.12.

feature freeze

Only applies to highly intrusive or protocol-breaking changes. I tested this commit with a local server instance and didn’t get OOS with older clients trying to join — they are just unable to pick Silver Mage because the list of possible leaders is provided by the host.