[UPDATE 0.2.3](2p/3p) Minimalistic Multiplayer Scenario: Honeycomb (Request for Feedback)

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[UPDATE 0.2.3](2p/3p) Minimalistic Multiplayer Scenario: Honeycomb (Request for Feedback)

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This is a minimalistic multiplayer scenario featuring a set of unique units.

You are a queen bee and your task is to protect your honeycomb against intruders. All units have 0 % defense, which completely eliminates randomness. This makes this scenario similar to chess-like strategy games.

There are six different units to recruit:

Ant
The ant is a scout unit which has the highest mobility. With Skirmish it can reach almost every tile on the map quickly. Its resistances are very useful against Flies, Fireflies and it can often wipe-out weakened units. However it lacks good attack. It is mechanical, so Gnats cannot make use of their drain ability, when they attack ants.

Bug
Bugs are your major fighters. A powerful melee attack can take most other units down. However, they are very slow, which makes them an easy target for Flies, with their arcane attack.

Fly
Here comes your class-cannon. High movement and a powerful ranged attack, which can’t be countered by the most units. The downside of this unit is that it is very frail and can easily be taken out by Ants. One Fly and one Ant together can kill a Firefly.

Firefly
Fireflies are the perfect utility unit. Pretty good movement and access to melee and ranged attacks is always neat. Their speciality is their ability to heal adjacent units by 2 HP. However, they really struggle against Flies and also Gnats.

Gnat
The staple mixed unit. It can use its ranged attack to make damage without receiving a counter-hit by most units. It is a great unit to extinguish weakened units, but poor if used solely. In a pair, Gnats can kill Bugs and Fireflies with their supersonic attack, but are easily countered by Ants.

Isopod
While weaker than bugs, isopods shine in their defensive capabilities. Their first-strike trait make them a great defense against Ants. Unlike the Bug, they struggle against Spiders, Fireflies and the opposing Queen Bee.

Spider
Spiders are your cavalry. They are faster than bugs and have a powerful attack. Their speciality is wiping out Ants and Isopods. However, they have no chance against Bugs with full health and swarms of Fireflies.

Did you like this scenario? Please leave some feedback here.

Change History
0.1.2: Increased the hitpoints of the spider to 3, but also increased their impact weakness, so that they are still 2HKO'd by the queen.
0.1.3: Added German translation and rough draft of a new tile.
0.2.0: Complete unit rework, add firefly
0.2.1: Fix Spider’s ranged attack type
0.2.2: Compatibility with newer Ageless Resources version
0.2.3: Balancing, increased the hitpoints of the bug from 8 to 9, fixed the moves of the firefly 1-2 and 2-1 (instead of 2-1 and 1-2), reduced the hitpoints of the ant from 9 to 8
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Spixi
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Re: (2p/3p) Minimalistic Multiplayer Scenario: Honeycomb (Request for Feedback)

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Hi folks!

I remade the Honeycomb add-on. All units are now more balanced, have more HP, are less glass-cannon-like and a new healer unit, the Firefly, joins the Honeycomb. I hope, you enjoy it and I am looking forward to hearing your feedback.
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Re: [UPDATE 0.2.2](2p/3p) Minimalistic Multiplayer Scenario: Honeycomb (Request for Feedback)

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I fixed the images, since the structure of Ageless Resources has changed and also did some balancing changes.
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Re: [UPDATE 0.2.3](2p/3p) Minimalistic Multiplayer Scenario: Honeycomb (Request for Feedback)

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Ravana wrote: June 3rd, 2020, 6:18 am What you mean with structure change?
For some weird reason I had to add

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[binary_path]
    path="data/add-ons/Ageless_Resources/general/"
[/binary_path]
which was not required before.
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Re: [UPDATE 0.2.3](2p/3p) Minimalistic Multiplayer Scenario: Honeycomb (Request for Feedback)

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Ravana wrote: June 3rd, 2020, 7:16 pm That has been in there over 2 years https://github.com/ProditorMagnus/Agele ... in.cfg#L46
Ok, then it may be because it was because I also had Ageless Era installed before. If you don’t have Ageless Era, you need that line or the images won’t appear.
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