The Battle for Wesnoth Forums

I like mages the way they are. They are a pain to keep alive at first, but they turn into extremely useful units if you are patient. Also, using them in any skirmish is a waste. I tend to save the mage for killing or weakening enemy commanders. Which is, incidentally, how mages tend to get used in p...

Learning sign language and throwing things well use two different skill sets, so you can't really assume that if Trolls do one, they can do the other particularly well. Also, aren't Trolls really big? would the Troll "Javelin" actually be a log? Would Trolls be disciplined enough to go bey...

That may actually be a good compromise, friendly units adjacent to an engineer may get defensive and movement bonuses. That way the engineer would be the first to move up to a castle or into a river/swamp, and the killer units follow and engage the enemy. It could represent the engineer not just bui...

Also, when would you actually -need- a engineer? When would you ever stop advancing, so you could wait for the engineer to move to the hex and build, then wait another turn for it to be able to move off of it? Usually, if I'm loyalists, and fighting orcs, I stop advancing at night, if I'm in contac...

What would the units weapon be? If he is an engineer it couldn't be effective enough to level up, like the healers who have ranged attacks. The engineer could have a melee attack, like a sword or mace. Ever get hit by a sharpened spade? Sappers loved using those things in both world wars. He still ...

I'm not proposing the build your base paradigm that has become the norm. I'm proposing that some armies can alter the terrain to suit them, provided it's worth the time. There is an important difference between what was described in the FPI section, which I've read, and what I'm proposing. The engin...

Even a good engineer could have problems getting all the trees in a forest hex down... (usually as big 1/5 of what a person can walk in 5 hours... several km.) Or erecting a wall that big... (even a 3x3m wall can take longer..) By that logic, every river in wesnoth is as wide as the missisipy and a...

It would not be too hard to teach AI to use it. AI does an adequate job of building towns in the first Warcraft game, and in civilization. The algorithm could be pretty straightforward: If swamp or river between AI keep and Enemy keep, Then build bridge over it; If Enemy unit in defensive position T...

I think dwarves and humans/loyalists would probably have the most capable engineers, i.e. ones that could do everything on the engineer's list: build bridges and roads, destroy adjacent fortifications and villages, create fortifications Dwarves may be the only ones capable of doing engineering in mo...

No. No sensible soldier would trust his life to a bunch of really long potentially flimsy ropes stretched a wide distance. The U.S. Army has standard techniques for constructing rope bridges over rivers so that only one or two guys have to get wet. Soldiers have to trust their lives to all kinds of...

Maybe you should have the choice of mounted vs. foot slogging commander. I think a mounted commander would make sense for armies that have a cavalry (especially since equestrians have typically had higher social rank historically) Being one of the faster units allows the commander to catch up to his...

Why can't leader units be mounted? It seems to me that the king, or prince, or warlord would want a mount so that he can ride around the battlefield and be where the most importat fighting is happening. Or to run away if the enemy starts winning.

I dunno, they seem fine as a scary monster to be encountered in some places, but are they organized enough to be a real army? They only have one base unit, the troll, that gets promoted to different, bigger, meaner trolls. Do trolls have enough of a culture to be an army?

I'd say that wesnoth is more like a combination of RPG and Strategy. An RPG with a large party, or a Tactical wargame with a small army(squad level). I don't think that the engineer unit would change that. It would add to the player's toolbox, allowing them to be more ingenious in solving some tacti...

I know the developers previously shot down builder units, but this would be diffferent from the Warcraft or Command & Conquer paradigm. What if some sides had engineer units that could: -build bridges over swamp or shallow water -build or clear obstacles on some terrain tiles (obstacles would ma...