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It simply is. RNG is too much of a factor and there is little to no room for error, since your units can die too easily and too fast, so you can't even retreat them.

Naturally, it also depends on campaign to a point, and some add-ons/campaigns feel like they were made by masochists. To illustrate...

Hello, I am inferno8 and this thread is about my era. The Era of Magic has been in development since 2007 and at the moment contains 8 playable factions with fully animated units (more than 270!) and tons of special effects. The aim of EoMa is to make the most visually appealing and nice to play...

Which Battle for Wesnoth Faction & Era contribution do you think is the most creative. Vote here!

Welcome to a work in progress units/faction for humans that live North of the Great River. Since I was working on a Northern Rebirth rewrite, There have been many challenges with concepts and coding issues. And for the sake of NR perspectives it be best to get community feedback with the concepts...

Hi,
I'm playtesting various custom AMLAs and while they all work fine I have a question.

The setup
A player AMLAs a unit so they get +1 damage to a ranged attack (AMLA #1).
Later the player gains the opportunity to AMLA to a new ranged attack (AMLA #2).

Now the original ranged attack has a +1...

Development thread for A War of Fools.

Recently I was creatively inspired while playing some UMC campaigns and decided to make my own. I am a complete beginner with WML and map design, Im not a good writer either and english is not my native language. But after 5 days of work I managed to get 2...

WARN : for the most recent stats of Feb. 5, 2023 with a larger and better data set, go to the message here

Hi everyone! In this topic I want to share stats on the Afterlife gamemode as it's played in AfterBot (rated Afterlife). This is the first stats made for any Wesnoth mode that is not 1v1....

I'm happy to formally announce that Wesnoth has joined Software in the Public Interest (SPI, as an associated project.

What this means is that SPI is now the legal entity responsible for keeping track of money donated to Wesnoth as well as Wesnoth's trademark rather than Wesnoth Inc. This was done...

Campaign Sanctuary :

Four heroes holding their well-fortified sanctuary against a flood of enemies, four scenarios, each on the same map. In the first scenario, all level 0 and level 1 units can appear as enemies, in the second all level 2 units, in the third all level 3 units, and in the fourth...

Ladder Tournament #3 will start January 6th 2023

Please visit here to register for the Ladder:

If you haven't checked out my Wesnoth Strategy Guide please do so here:

I will be using a Swiss Magic: The Gathering style tournament structure. That means a certain number of rounds based on how...

I've been (re)playing (and enjoying, tbh) the Heir to the Throne campaign, and I've played it many times before, but I would absolutely love to contribute to this great game by putting my writing skills to good use and doing something about the (often comically) awful dialogues. My eyes have...

SUMMARY:

An informational report on the status of Wesnoth, Inc's finances and costs.

NOTE: All future revenue will be handled by Software in the Public Interest (SPI).

TYPE:

Status Report

SOURCE:

Board of Directors

DECISION PROCESS & RESULTS:

N/A

CONTENTS:

All numbers are in US...

A week ago I finally finished all the mainline campaigns (yay!), after holding off on Dead Water for a long time. This got me thinking about what I liked best from different campaigns, which made me think that I should ask y’all what have been some of the your most memorable experiences. By...

Welcome fellow Wesnothians! I'm proud to announce that Afterlife Rated has started on 1.16!

Rules are simple: join games hosted by AfterBot, they will be Afterlife Rated #... , play, win. After you win, whisper to the bot that you won. Get higher rating and climb the leaderboard!

Quick info on...

EDIT: I found the solution to this problem in case anyone is looking for it. In the _main.cfg file, you have to load the macros defining abilities before you use them in your unit type definition.
Hi everyone,

I am trying to create a L3 advancement to the Saurian Soothsayer called the Saurian...

Hello everyone,

This is the feedback thread for my little campaign In Defense of Kharos where we see the beginning of the Tharis invasion of Kharos on their eastern border. I really liked TLU and EoMa as an era especially. I always love to replay this campaign, but for now its the only campaign...

I finally started to dwell into the WML stuff and successfully created a _main.cfg and a first scenario file which worked fine for some time until I tried to make an moveto event which killed my file. Now I can´t find where to locate the is missing name or id field.
It worked before, but it seems I...

If you use an addon, era or campaign with units with levels above 9, in the GUI they are seen in almost all languages with ellipsis points. And you have to hover your mouse over to know the number.

Sin título.png

I found two easy ways to do it. One of them is to modify in the file...

This is the feedback forum for the Legend of the Invincibles singleplayer campaign. If you have played the campaign and have any comments regarding it (bugs, difficulty), feel free to post about it here, I am interested in reading it, even if it is a petty thing. Because of the size of the...

Hey folks,

i need some help for the Mod Random Recruits, i need every lvl 2 units name. As i see in the main.lua he uses the names for the recruitment. And if i dont think false with the names of lvl 2 unit they can also be recruitet randomly ofc

Also iam searching a mod that can give new units...

Have you ever felt that mainline's Eastern Invasion was... lackluster? So do I, but the campaign premise has so much promise that I couldn't bear to see it go to waste.

So, I've worked on-and-off for the past year to build an extensive rewrite of Eastern Invasion, which I'm proud to present here...

the WML can not work,i hope side 1 turn gold +{S1G}
S1G is variable

(1) What difficulty level and version of Wesnoth have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) How clear did you find the scenario objectives?
(4) How clear and interesting did you find the dialog and storyline of the scenario?
(5) What were your major...

Hi, I'm getting this error message quite often (multiple times per game) and can then not save the game anymore:

Could not auto save the game. Please save the game manually.save_game_failed:failed opening file: Too many open files: iostream error

When this happens, I need to force quit the game...

This is the official topic for the Season Changer mod.

This mod modifies all of the outdoor terrains of the map and cycles between the 4 seasons.The host may change how many turns each season lasts from the settings.

Any feedback will be appreciated.

(1) What difficulty levels and game versions have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) How clear did you find the scenario objectives?
(4) How clear and interesting did you find the dialog and storyline of the scenario?
(5) What were your major...

Note: If you didn't know, the final scenario in Heir to the Throne is named The Battle for Wesnoth. This thread has nothing to do with the overall game - only this one scenario.

(1) What difficulty levels and game versions have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the...

Legends about a mysterious warlock who created a powerful artifact roam the lands. An artifact powerful enough to break the frontier between the world of the living and the dead. Many treasure hunters, adventurers, paladins, knights or even foul sorcerers tried to get their hand on this artifact,...

(1) What difficulty levels and game versions have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) How clear did you find the scenario objectives?
(4) How clear and interesting did you find the dialog and storyline of the scenario?
(5) What were your major...