The Golden Age

[ForestDragon]

How about saving some old cool goblin sprites by adding them to your Era?

There are two main sources of goodmainline quality goblin sprites.
The one is Swampings and the other is 1.8 Promised Land campaign. Also there separately exists full mounted spearmen goblin line.
Now I took a look in your era, you used Swamplings, so Rouser line can advance to lvl2 and then lvl3.

well. yeah

But look at Promised Land campaign. There is animated goblin javelineer that can be lvl2 for the Impaler.

ok, i guess i can use him

Also there are goblin archers, level0 called hunter, level1 called shooter. And even a cool portrait for them.

well, i already have south orc goblin archers that specialise on fire arrows, but ok, i might take a look

Also there are level0 torcher and level1 raider.

i'll see

There are also bladesman, champion and hero and sage (the last one called Jinx at Swamplings).

interesting

Also (not in Promised Land files) there exists full goblin mounted spearman lvl1-lvl3 line (I forgot where I saw it, somewhere in 1.12 or 1.10, in many places), probably you saw it already, and the portrait of goblin spearman can be taken from Promised Land.

well, the sprites are for example in war of legends, ok, i'll keep it in mind

And about you experiments with gobo caravan/transport, sorry I dont like them. Sometimes authors of eras pass to excessiveness with their fantasies. At least you should use bigger, level3 wolf for the transport, not level1, how ordinary wolf can bear 3 goblins? Same with caravan, just putting a tent over the wolf's back you will not make it a caravan. You need a wagon for the caravan because wolf's back is not a warehouse.

well, yeah, i'll keep it in mind, well, i guess i'll make the lvl1 transport at least with lvl2 wolf (lvl3 is way too much though).and about caravan, i guess a wagon with a few wolves instead of horses will be fine

Also I do not like that goblin king (it is not your work I hope) because it is also an obvious example of surfeit. Come on, warbanner, net and enourmous spear, that all together is out of sense and looks bad in general. Such excessiveness is not of mainline style.

can't say i really like him either, plus he doesn't even fit the Swamplings' trumpeter/prime style, i guess i'll remove him, maybe

Also in your place I would remove Southern Orcs faction completely. Units from there looks too close to ordinary goblins or level0 orc or just bad looking (obviously unsuccessful frankens of old Wesnoth sprites).

you mean Orcish Brute line? then yeah, they are pretty bad looking, and in mp, i don't even use them at all. probably will remove them

[Aldarisvet]

well, i already have south orc goblin archers that specialise on fire arrows, but ok, i might take a look

Ah, you use Southern Orc sprites as a goblin's. Got it. But still it looks too similar to level0 orc/Peon for your level0/level1 goblin archers (because these sprites all are made from wesnoth 1.0 level1 orc sprite). Better to use small goblin's legs from Promised Land (at least for base frames, then to ajust animations by frankens probly).

[ForestDragon]

well, i already have south orc goblin archers that specialise on fire arrows, but ok, i might take a look

Ah, you use Southern Orc sprites as a goblin's. Got it. But still it looks too similar to level0 orc/Peon for your level0/level1 goblin archers (because these sprites all are made from wesnoth 1.0 level1 orc sprite). Better to use small goblin's legs from Promised Land (at least for base frames, then to ajust animations by frankens probly).

well, in FoaP (where i copied them from) they were already goblins

[Lumen]

Me and ForestDragon testet new features in his scenario corrupted forest.
Warning in this reviw there will be spoilers,mist and some *garbeld* . So if you have not played the scenario yet then do not read this. Unless you hate suprises ,have played or dont care then here it is .

Spoiler:

so one new feature is lighting that strikes few times and may hit your units In my opion is this is great feauture . It gives you feel of danger wich ofc is +. Also he added his own ToD and its own pictures and pictures were done beautifully +

Spoiler:

boss battle was much more epic and has now 2 stages . First one is allmost as before but when you kill the woses she summons 4 portals that spawn enemies

scenario is quite easy but we talked about few ideas that could make harder .

Overall i think this update made map even better . Once again good job

Thank you again for letting me test this .

Lumen

[Lumen]

Btw if there is faction or unit tree were you wish ideas about i could help you . So if something comes to your mind could you post it so we can give ideas .

[ForestDragon]

Spoiler:

so one new feature is lighting that strikes few times and may hit your units In my opion is this is great feauture . It gives you feel of danger wich ofc is +. Also he added his own ToD and its own pictures and pictures were done beautifully +

Spoiler:

yeah , thanks, about cloudy ToD, here are the reasons i made it: 1.to give off an even more eerie feel 2.and to give a reason for all this lightning thing to occur

Spoiler:

boss battle was much more epic and has now 2 stages . First one is allmost as before but when you kill the woses she summons 4 portals that spawn enemies

Spoiler:

well, yeah, but you forgot to mention the fact that the boss teleports units back into their camp when attacked, also, suggestions about making stage 2 harder / more epic, they are welcome , here are a few of mine:
1.obviously, more HP (probably 100 or 200 extra will do )
2.remember those lightnings from before? how about having them replaced by purple lightning in the second stage (it'll do a bit more damage or / and some other annoying effects like petrifying a unit for a turn or two )
3.how about having boss able to cast spells at units in a range of, like, 3-5 hexes at the start of her turn, like this (maybe the boss can cast some of the spells only in stage 2) they are basically like Prunes from Grnk the Mighty addon (i might grab some code from there):
___1.harming a few units
___2.petrifying a unit
___3.summoning a random unit/a few random units
___4.you can suggest me some more ideas on this part

scenario is quite easy but we talked about few ideas that could make harder .

also, i came up with a few now, look at the spoiler tag above

Overall i think this update made map even better . Once again good job

thanks well, i guess it's time to show map makers how a real boss fight is done

Spoiler:

(in scrolling survival, the boss was merely a dragon with onl more health and nothing else)

Thank you again for letting me test this .

Lumen

yeah, no problem, it's every era creator's dream to have testers/feedback providers like you when i release the next update, we might try it again

Btw if there is faction or unit tree were you wish ideas about i could help you . So if something comes to your mind could you post it so we can give ideas .

i would actually like ideas from you, since i am kinda running low on those.

[Lumen]

Good i might have and idea for merfolk


i thought that you could add into merfolk faction unit called land crawler . You could make it advancemend to merman brawler . Unit would have better land movement and in description you could write how they use their strong hands to crawlr hence the name . Idk would the unit be how useful but

[ForestDragon]

Good i might have and idea for merfolk


i thought that you could add into merfolk faction unit called land crawler . You could make it advancemend to merman brawler . Unit would have better land movement and in description you could write how they use their strong hands to crawlr hence the name . Idk would the unit be how useful but

hmmmm... naval maps are mostly water, so land units aren't very useful. btw, i am kinda more into map suggestions. i already have an A4 paper filled with ideas on both sides.

[Lumen]

Good point Map ideas i could give those
Silver mage map were you need to use teleportation tactics to survive and attack

or map were you need to catch the wisp or silver mage that moves around map with teleportation and you mission is attack and catch .

[ForestDragon]

Good point Map ideas i could give those
Silver mage map were you need to use teleportation tactics to survive and attack

or map were you need to catch the wisp or silver mage that moves around map with teleportation and you mission is attack and catch .

i meant ideas for corrupted forest
also, the avatar fits you
EDIT: about map ideas... hmmm... i guess if we replace lvl3 silver mages with lvl2 saurian visionnaries, who also have teleport, this might be interesting. about corrupted forest, you can wait a bit, i already have an A4 paper full with ideas on both sides anyway

[Lumen]

Uppss well atleast you have ideas but i will try to think of ideas
And thanks i like my avatar too

[ForestDragon]

Uppss well atleast you have ideas but i will try to think of ideas
And thanks i like my avatar too

well, i completed most of them, i only need to make a few more, and i am pretty much ready to upload
also, expect this update with not only map tweaks, but also some new fancy-shmancy advancements

[ForestDragon]

0.2.11 is out! here are the changes, of course:
added Minotaur unit (lvl4 monster), basilisk cultist (opt. lvl2 from DA with petrify), new portrait for elvish halberdier. corrupted forest changes: (fixed lightning's texture 'hitting' a unit 2 hexes below the unit that gets damaged.made a unit hit by lightning slowed for a turn. side 1 or 2 units killed in the map turn into side 3 ghosts of their level -1.added hard mode. lots and lots of tweaks to *garbled*, tweaked ToD cycle),lvl1 death baron, lvl4 Ghost lich (opt. from Lich), lvl4 crusader, nerfed chevalier's healing, opt. lvl2 from merm. initiate which makes male enemies unable to fight near her, bob anim for Spook

[Lumen]

yeah this happend

The following add-on had errors and could not be loaded:
D:/My Games/userdata/data/add-ons/The_Golden_Age/_main.cfg

Please report this to the author or maintainer of this add-on.

Details:

Found invalid closing tag [/event] for tag [then]
opened at ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\maps\\macros_bossspells.cfg:16
included from ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\_main.cfg:15
included from ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\maps\\scenarios_corrupted_forest_coop.cfg:213
included from ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\_main.cfg:15
closed at ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\maps\\macros_bossspells.cfg:207
included from ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\_main.cfg:15
included from ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\maps\\scenarios_corrupted_forest_coop.cfg:213
included from ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\_main.cfg:15

[ForestDragon]

yeah this happend

The following add-on had errors and could not be loaded:
D:/My Games/userdata/data/add-ons/The_Golden_Age/_main.cfg

Please report this to the author or maintainer of this add-on.

Details:

Found invalid closing tag [/event] for tag [then]
opened at ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\maps\\macros_bossspells.cfg:16
included from ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\_main.cfg:15
included from ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\maps\\scenarios_corrupted_forest_coop.cfg:213
included from ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\_main.cfg:15
closed at ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\maps\\macros_bossspells.cfg:207
included from ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\_main.cfg:15
included from ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\maps\\scenarios_corrupted_forest_coop.cfg:213
included from ~add-ons\\The_Golden_Age\\_main.cfg:15

ok, released the 0.2.11c update, changes are:
buffed up Mermaid Nymph, added Elvish Spearman line, Elvish Grand Sorceress (opt. lvl4 from Enchantress with a broad variety of spells, portrait for dwarvish brewer line), fixed the bug you told me about (i had a fixed version already, but forgot to release it)

so, stuff should be working now, i tested it