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Elvish_King
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New Merman

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Hey there, I wanted for my era a new merman but I wonder not to find anything good (exepct parts from Water Era), which fits to my plan, so I decided to make one of my own but I have got two Problems and I wanted to hear your opinion.

1. Which kind of a unit? The mermans currently have a fighter, a healer/mage, a archer/scout and a keader (from Dead Water). So I didn't know whixh type the new unit could be.

2. Which weapons? Mermans have: spear, trident, net and club but I'm thinking of sth. different.

I hope you can help me.
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Re: New Merman

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You have a lot of options for sure- you could go with a highly mobile skirmishing unit (perhaps in water+swamp only) or a marksmen type which I think would be good additions. Think about the skills units have, like first strike, backstab, etc. and go from there.
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Or with new unit you can create new ability, like fisherman, everytimes when he end turn with full movement points at coastel reef terrain his side gains 1 gold more, or have 10% chance to find other 0 lvl merman in water (event to create same side unit near first one)...
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Re: New Merman

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Elvish_King wrote:1. Which kind of a unit?
I don't think we have a mounted unit yet. ;)

Elvish_King wrote:2. Which weapons? Mermans have: spear, trident, net and club but I'm thinking of sth. different.
Not to forget the arcane. Here we had a discussion about what weapons would be suitable for fish. So maybe no thundersticks.
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Re: New Merman

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A cuple of good ideas, I've got a plan now. All the three units can't move on land but are therefore a bit faster in water. They also have the ability concealment.
They have a spear/trident and net full of stones.
Melee attack: stronger than hunter (line), weaker than fighter (line)
Range attack: little damge, many tries, lvl.2 + 3 maybe marksman
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(I'm not sure about the names, in German they sound good)

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Re: New Merman

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I think the first and second name are fine, not sure about the third (from Germany too ;-) ). When I hear Shellhunter I think about the coast. If that is not just me perhaps switch the first and second name to get the continuity from coast -> deep sea?
I was thinking about a way to continue the treasure hunter theme with the third unit, but I found nothing that rang true with me (mediocre examples would be wreck looter or wreck finder).
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Re: New Merman

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I might be a bit late, but if you are still looking for ideas: The Merman haven't got a real tanky unit with HP or armor, exept for the hoplite. Some other kinds of seacreature could also be used to fill the era (like the octopus-pet from dead water).
Or try to find units for the different attack types, as they have no blade,cold or fire damage yet. A Frostmage might be possible or a swordsman.
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Re: New Merman

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Maybe you could get some name inspiration from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_sea_creature
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Re: New Merman

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Make a:
- Woman Merman which can seduce and change enemy unit side (not works for undeads + female genders)

- Merman which is slowly (4 mp) cause he walks/swims everywhere with chest full of gold, he hides behind this chest once he is attacked (+30% impact/pierce/blade res while defense) and he can attacks only on ranged by gold coins (and each unit which fights with such a merman have 5% or 10% chance to find 1 gold coin after battle) - his secret ability might be option to bribe enemy berserker once its attacked by one of them if have enought gold coins (20).

- Pirate merman able to summon pirats (one side can summon 3, one merman can summon only one ship max) ship for 2-3 turns (after this time its die) (once per 7-8 turns)! With a hook instead of one hand

- Merman able to teleport in deep water with poison melee bite.
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Re: New Merman

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The 2nd and 3rd ones are a bit... thick.
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Re: New Merman

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Vyncyn wrote:The Merman haven't got a real tanky unit with HP or armor, exept for the hoplite.
You mean something like the Heavy Infantryman or the Wose? I thought about that and I think I'm going to realize it (I don't know how yet, but...I try), maybe I can combinate this with a cold/fire(in the sea :hmm: ) attack.

@ GunChleoc: I read the whole page later but thanks anyway.
@ ChaosRider: A cuple of good ideas, I personally like the idea with the pirates. (No plan how to do that but I will find out)
pe_em wrote:The 2nd and 3rd ones are a bit... thick.
I don't real think so, other mermen have the same size.

Here I changed the pierce against a blade attack for the lvl.3 (the other weapon of lvl.1-2 also look like strange "mermanish" blade weapons)
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Re: New Merman

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Elvish_King wrote:P.S. Does anybody know an era/campaign... with some custom merman? (except WaterEra)
Do you know the Brawler from Dead Water?
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Re: New Merman

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Of cause I know the Brawler.
Inspired by the ideas of Chaos Rider, I made a pirate Merman.
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I also tried to make some black thing covering is eye but it didn't look good, so the pirate has only a hook and a head.
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Re: New Merman

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The pirate is a cool concept and I quite like the design. The problem is that the details are quite mushed together. Try to use less colors, more contrast and inner outlines.

I included a sample with pure black inner outlines for you to get the idea. I would recommend not to use black but very dark color of the area to be bordered.
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Re: New Merman

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As a comparison: 1st column is the previous version, 2nd column is version with inner outlines and more contrast, 3rd column is like the 2nd with a new ice weapon (because I maybe use this as a tank unit :hmm: )
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Which of theese do you like most?

P.S. New name for the deapseefighter: treasure seeker?
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