Kalevala: The Iron Age: Races

[Jgrr]

Great idea! All right, this is what we will do...

The scenario "It will eat us all!" (see the other thread) will be changed into "Danger from above" where Louhi summons Kokko (Lv5 giant eagle, claw(slash)+beak(pierce)+raise-and-drop(impact instant kill), "carries" Warriors) instead of Iku-Turso (which is actually more mythologically correct.) Iku-Turso will be the final battle after the Swedish raid somewhere on Ã…land sea (I'm still thinking of the details, but it does fit in the theme. As there probably are Avengers (berserking units) aboard, I'll have to either give them a non-berserk melee attack, to give the head some kind of a bite attack, to remove or to de-avengerize the units before the final battle.)

[Eternal]

Perhaps you should make terrain that looks like ocean but which the monster can recruit on. That way, when you kill a tentacle, he can recruit another one in the spot if he has enough gold, but it won't look like he sitting on a castle in the middle of the ocean.

Exactly what I meant. Sorry for being so unclear.

As there probably are Avengers (berserking units) aboard, I'll have to either give them a non-berserk melee attack, to give the head some kind of a bite attack, to remove or to de-avengerize the units before the final battle.

I said the head would be immobile, not unable to attack.
Loads of HP and powerful slow melee (with drain would be too strong i guess but that'd be cool), a weaker, but yet dangerous ranged (poison or slow?).

Plotwise Iku Turso could just get tired of the very disturbing sea battalion between Kalevala people and Swedish Crusaders. And surfaces to deal with this annoyance.
"I have tolerated many battles and done as told, but this is ENOUGH! I will sink your ships, eat your wives and flood your homelands!"
I need some more info though... Is Iku a god or is he just a godly beast... a pet of sea god? AFAIK Finnish mythology is similar to Greek's (so there's ought to be a sea god of sort).

[Jgrr]

Wikipedia has sort of a good reference on this. He is not really a god, just a sea monster some people like to invoke:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iku-Turso

Note that the exact appearance is stated nowhere, and there are also very few paintings (and not a single famous one), so it's very much to the artistic freedom to decide.

I already (sort of) know the plot too, the monster will be invoked either by Louhi (the evil mistress), Aino (the jealous mermaid who wants the main characrer to return to water to her), or both of them. Maybe I'll even get a decent ending after this, since I'm really not very happy with the current one.

[Eternal]

Aino -HAS- to call this one from the bottom. More drama y'know.

She has longed so long and her summoning is so powerful that Iku has to break his promise to Väinämöinen and surface once again.

Iku-Turso is mentioned as the father of diseases

Poison ranged then perhaps?

"the eternal Turso"

This is just prfect.

[Jgrr]

The Bears, the Pohjolan Witch-Mistress line, and the Crusader lines (Crusader, Crusader Cavalry, Crusader King and Priest, Bishop) have now been programmed. They can be tested in the Defense of Kalevala scenario.

I'll be doing the rest of the Finns myself, hopefully during the next few days (if I can handle looking for a job and avoid falling sick), but the ones I will know to have problems with are:

* The swan of Death (normal size level 0, no attacks, just there to be shot - white in some sources, black in some others)
* Kokko, the huge eagle monster with a sharp beak, pointy claws, and 50 men under each wing
* Will-o-wisp (a magical fire that burns in the night only, concealing a treasure, I currently have a placeholder that looks like a gas grenade)
* Iku-Turso (OK, I already have the "Cthulhu" thing as a placeholder)

[Jgrr]

Well, as I seem to have time... here are some more unit pictures (unfortunately not programmed yet)

[Eternal]

Please please pleease use this as a placeholder, until I get a better one done.

And byt the way... One of those log carries could have his log resting on his shoulder (preferably level 2) just to avoid them looking too similar.

[Jgrr]

Wow!

Some more basic units here...

It's actually very hard ot carry such a log around... but that unit will anyway be a bit grotesque. Let's see what I can do.

[halleck]

The Elkhunter and bearhunter look almost exactly the same. I actually had to search to find the difference. Same with brawler and clubman....
You should probably work on that.

[turin]

Eternal, please remember that the unit has to fit in the 72*72 hex, not just the square.

[Eternal]

YES! I'm very sorry about that.
This should do better.

[Jgrr]

A few more graphics, stripped the lower-level units a bit to achieve difference

[Tuohirulla]

Hey, bear hunter could have spear with sharp stics on its sides, that would make different looking than elk hunter. I was unable to make the image with my paint shop pro to show up here.

Biggest club man could be armed with oar of a rowing boat.