Oath of Allegiance [SP Desert People Campaign for 1.13.5]

[ahmannar]

Making a new post since the last one exceeded the limit of attachments.

Face to Face with the Snake:

Spoiler:

Difficulty: 6.
Dialog/story: The sentence of Nuvdael that ends with "...without facing a danger" seems like a strange way to phrase it. Just ending the sentence without that part seems good enough.
Level of fun: 7.
Restarts: 0.
Bugs: Didn't noticed any of these.
Final statistics: 3 recruits, 9 recalls, 4 advancements, 6 losses, 30 kills, 28 carryover gold.

Isanbar:

Spoiler:

Dialog/story: When Iskandar refers to dawoud for the first time his true name as already been revealed, however, Iskandar is refering to him as "dawoud" still. Is this intended?
Bugs: Didn't noticed any of these.

The scenario "Beneath the Sands" is impossible to beat. In the first turn, one of the miners attacks the level 2 troll that is on the path and he gets killed, either on his turn or on the troll's turn. If there's the need to pass this level while protecting the dwarf miners, only by controlling them (not having the AI control them) will it be possible to do it.

[Kwandulin]

Uploaded a quick fix for the scenario that allows you to control the miners

[ahmannar]

I don´t know what happened in the unseen part of the scenario ""Beneath the sands", but i keep getting defeated by some event that happens beyond the fog without being able to even see it, no matter the amount of tries that i make. I'm posting my review of the scenario until the point i have managed to go into.

Beneath the Sands:

Spoiler:

Difficulty:10, Can´t pass this level right now. The save that i have put in here shows the most progress i was able to make. I lose out of nowhere and, considering the defeat conditions, the only explanation i can see for it is that the ally leader has dwarf miners on his side, which get killed and trigger the defeat.
If that's the case, it's a bit hard to prevent this. RNG can dictate whether this happens sooner or later and, although i cannot be sure of it, i think that the pace of running with my units was not too slow(the map is huge either way). I would suggest 2 things to remove this possibility:make so that the dwarf leader doesn't recruit/have dwarvish miners on his side (one more reason why the ones controlled by the player are so important) and/or trigger dwarves that guard the area around the dwarf leader starting keep, in order for them to not be overrun-ed before the player gets to them.
Dialog/story: The dialogue between the dwarvish miners and the player, where the dwarves ask for help with the trolls situation, doesn't happen anymore in this version where they are controlled. I guess that the code of the scenario was made for the dialogue to trigger in the specific situation of encountering an ally and, since they begin on the same side now, the game doesn't recognize them anymore and all of that dialogue isn't present anymore. Also, for some reason, on turn 6 Ilriel says 2 sentences of that dialogue (she's talking alone).
Level of fun: 4/5, even if this scenario didn't end with the defeat of a dwarvish miner of the ally, i think there's one serious balancing problem and one minor inconvenience in the new version.
The map is much larger now and nothing happens in most of it, it's just running from the evil djinn until they catch the player. The turn limit and dimension of the map could probably be lowered in order to not have a sequence in the scenario that is like "intense battle in the beginning, lots of running in the middle, more battle in the end".
Once more, i don´t know if i'm making the correct tactic, but it seems that is impossible to outrun the evil djinn, given the fact that they have flying capabilities and can make shortcuts in order to catch the player's units. When this happens, a large number of them stand in the way and the only way of consistently getting rid of them is having Ilriel with the Eye of the Dragon. If this is the wanted strategy, it will ruin the chances of the players that didn't get it previously/didn't give it to Ilriel.
Restarts: 3 restarts but gave up, since i always lose from some event that happens with the ally and i am not able to reach him in time.
Bugs: The one i mentioned in the section "Dialogue/Story" regarding the lack of dialogue between the player and the dwarvish miners in the beginning because of their change of side in this version.

[Kwandulin]

Ah, alright, seems like a big afariyat slipped through and killed Andurin. I had been able to squash the bug that miners attacked the trolls,thus, the control over the miners is given back to the ai now. I've also changed the position of the first keep, so you can catch up with the miners more easily now and block the paths to the trolls.
The fixed version is up and should be doable now.

I'll return to the other bugs later.

Regarding the few turkish sentences at the beginning: I know that this isn't an ideal solution but it's the best I had been able to come up with yet.

[ahmannar]

I´ll try it again with the new version then .

EDIT:
Beneath the Sands:

Spoiler:

Difficulty:7, if you are able to make andurin not die, then i think there's still margin to give have some more evil djinn in here to have more action in the corridors where there's multiple keeps. Maybe increasing the number of them wouldn´t work because that would just put more of them near the end of the scenario, instead putting some kidn of enemy on the corridors on the middle could work.
The behaviour of the AI dwarvish miners can be treacherous. In a previous attempt, they went ahead of my troops and never stooped, getting killed by the evil djiin.
Moving the keep closer to the player eliminates much of the artificial difficulty, i think that was a good move.
Dialogue/story: Given the fact that some information about Nuvdael was given in "Peril" and that he agreed to tell more when they escape from here, it seems like he will give more explanations on how he fought the evil on the southwoods/what exactly he did there. Curious about it right now.
Level of fun: 7, the middle of the scenario where nothing is happening for quite some turns is somewhat boring.
Major challenges: "Messing" with the AI in order for the dwarfs to not get ahead of the army, as well as maximizing the damage of the hero units in order to hold the troll´s assault.
Restarts: 2, one because the dwarves went too much ahead and another because i didn't understand the Ai behaviour of stopping suddenly and messed up my play.
Bugs: The dialogue about the road is bugged and doesn´t show the full dialogue.
Final statistics: 5 recruits, 5 recalls, 2 advancements, 4 losses, 23 kills, no carryover gold. The fixed carryover system is indeed making the player have less gold, which is good cause there was a certain excess of it previously, which made it so much easier to equip all the best units.

The Three Kings:

Spoiler:

Difficulty: 6.
Dialogue/story: The full story of Nuvdael seems very good. I'll just put here the dialogue from that part with some modifications that i think would be good in there.

"The throne room of the Three Kings. For a long time, they were responsible for the pain and hate that roamed these lands. Their reign made the people of the desert realms fearful of the power that few individuals could have, that's why the desert realms got split once the reign of the Three Kings ended. So, tell me, Nuvdael, why does your kin oblige to you?"

"Usually the elves are lead by a council and by the advice of sages. Centuries ago, the Southwoods were inhabited by elves, but not the kind of elves that currently live inside those woods. Shadows from the black forests soon held the Southwoods in a tight grip, enslaving the poor souls that once lived there and the council of the Aethenwoods, the woods of my origin, did nothing to stop the darkness from crawling into the Southwoods. Instead,they made a pact with the sorcerers of the Black Forest, as they were ready to give away the lives of the elves of the Southwoods in exchange for an artifact that once belonged to them."

"They gave away the lives of their own brothers, which i couldn't accept so i formed a resistance with several other elves. Because of that action, the council forced me to leave my home. Being ruled by a council may imply that not all of them may fall to the darkness at the same time, but nevertheless they were wrong. In the end, they were consumed by it and it was my task to strike back the darkness. With no more than 12 elves, I marched into the Southwoods, fought back the shadows and corrupted souls of the ones that once were my brothers and reclaimed it. The darkness was no longer."

"And there in the woods, surrounded by darkness, was Ilriel. The heart of the Southwoods. Some say forests consists of thousands of individuals, but that's not true for all forests. She had been weakened by the dark arts of the sorcerers and that made the forest decay alarmingly faster. However, after defeating the sorcerers, she regained her health and the elves who were not ready to live under the banner of the betrayers of the council on the Aethenwoods moved to live in the Southwoods. "

Once again, i put the modifications directly in your text to be easier to compare the 2 versions.
Level of fun:9.
Restarts:0.
Bugs: Didn´t noticed any of these.
Final Statistics: 12 recruits, 6 recalls, 2 advancements, 8 losses, 16 kills, 47 bonus gold.
Random remarks: Comparing my previous playthrough with this one, it can be seen that farming the scenario netted much more kills that i made in here. If in the future you need to make the campaign harder, one of the possible things you could do is make the enemy leader "suicidal" in his attacks and more aggressive. This would make it more difficult to wait for him to recruit 1/2 units per turn while they are slaughtered.
The objective of the scenario says "Defeat all enemy leaders" but there´s only one enemy leader in here.

Chamber of Ancients:

Spoiler:

Difficulty:3, by making use of the low MP of the enemy and the higher number of it of my units, i was able to clean all opposition.
Dialogue/story: The enw dialogue is quite fitting in here.
Bugs: Didn't find any of these.
Final statistics: 17 kills, 208 carryover gold.

The Cloud River:

Spoiler:

Difficulty:6, having the initial 2 guards stay near the vizier is nice since it makes it necessary to sent more units to deal with him. However, as it can be seen by the replay, it's a number too low so the number of units needed to deal with them doesn't make a difference in the "xp-farming" nature of it. I would suggest to really crank up the number of guards that protect him, something like 6/7 guards near him (where their levels and type of units could depend on the difficulty, in order to not be an hindrance on lower difficulties) in order to have a real need to move the army in the direction of the vizier.
Dialogue/story: Nothing to point out here, just a nice addition to the story.
Level of fun: 10.
Bugs: Ilriel changed her sprite in this level because i got every AMLA for her. Her new sprite is a little bit cropped up in the image show when her unit is clicked.
Final statistics: 3 recruits, 8 recalls, 6 advancements, 2 losses, 96 kills, 120 bonus gold.

Eye of the hurricane:

Spoiler:

Difficulty:5.
Dialog/story: Nothing to point out.
Level of fun:5.
Restarts:1, forgot to take out one catapult at the beginning and was too late to get back to it.
Bugs: The name of the enemy leader, the vizier (Abbas), is the same as the name of the vizier on the previous level "The Cloud River".
Final statistics: 38 kills, 190 bonus gold. The new carryover system may, for some reason, be causing the huge amount of bonus that went into here (compared with the 32 from the previous time). Since this scenario is already quite easy, i would suggest to maybe set the carryover gold to 0, so that it's also easier for you to balance the amount of goodies that the player can get in the next scenario.

[tr0ll]

Regarding the few turkish sentences at the beginning: I know that this isn't an ideal solution but it's the best I had been able to come up with yet.

Which character sets are you restricted to? There is a unicode set of hexagrams that may be applicable for untranslatable languages, from U+4DC0 to U+4DFF:
䷀䷁䷂䷃䷄䷅䷆䷇䷈䷊䷋䷌䷍䷎䷏䷐䷑䷒䷓䷔䷕䷖䷗䷘䷙䷚䷛䷜䷝䷞䷟䷠䷡䷢䷣䷤䷥䷦䷧䷨䷩䷪䷫䷬䷭䷮䷯䷰䷱䷲䷳䷴䷵䷶䷷䷸䷹䷺䷻䷼䷽䷾䷿
Each one represents a concept.

[ahmannar]

I´m making a different post regarding my review, since the point i'm at seems to point out that the amount of gold carried between scenarios is not the cause of the campaign being too easy on hard.
I think that the amount of free units the player gets is one of the main things that is indeed causing this, so i´m gonna give my opinion on how to handle this. Since i have not played the campaign i don't know how the changes will affect its difficulty but it will surely make it harder:

Suggestions:

Spoiler:

-> In "Drought", let the player only have 1 arif and 1 jundi. Having the possibility of having 2 level 4 units that are loyal will be quite powerful near the end of the game with the amount of gold that is saved;

-> In "A Whisper in the Sands", let only the healer and the wyvern rider stay with the player. The "spearmen" are quite tanky units and having 3 of them given to the player like this bolsters his strength quite significantly. The healer will only serve for that so it's no big deal and the wyvern rider is the first contact with the unit until the middle of the campaign, so it's interesting to remain with it.
The logic for the remaining units to stay could be explained in their initial contact with the player's units by saying that they must stay in the village if they successfully repel the enemy attack, as they can't abandon the people and someone must stay to protect them;

-> The suggestion i gave earlier regarding putting a certain number of "guardian" units near the sphere in "Six Feet Under" to make it more difficult to obtain the item that is probably the best one in the campaign;

-> In "The Pearl of the Desert", make the riders stay with Ibn Khazul for the same reason as him. It would make sense story-wise (he stays behind to make sure that the city stays safe and sends his general to take care of the snake, but the troops that were with him go away right now) and it's another huge boost of extra power. The woses are not very useful overall on most scenarios, so staying with them is not problematic;

-> Staying with the elves of "Face to Face with the Snake" is ok enough, since they also are not useful on every scenario;

-> Putting some extra enemies on the corridors with multiple keeps on "Beneath the sands" in order to slow the player's units, so that there's eventually more difficulty on that area;

-> In "The Three kings", making the enemy leader more suicidal and maybe make the torchs last only 1 turn/remove them and have them act only as decoration, while having dawoud comment on the fact that the enemy must have destroyed them in order to make sure that it wouldn´t be used against them. The nature of the enemy make so that fire and tank units is a perfect strategy against them, extra advantages like the good ToD and the passiveness of the enemy leader is something that is not necessary at all;

-> "Chamber of Ancients" is a serious way to level up the 2 heroes of the campaign. I don't really know how to avoid it;

-> In "Cloud River", having a much larger guardian force near the vizier. This would make it necessary to move the army against him and, since the undead are slow on this terrain and most of them will spwan away from that area, there won't be the problem of being between 2 different armies;

-> In "Eye of the Hurricane", make it so that the minotaurs don't stay with the player after this scenario ends and remove the carryover gold from it. It's very easy to get 5 minotaurs from this level and this seriously nullifies much of the difficulty from the next scenarios. Considering the price in gold that they currently are sold in the next scenario, it's a huge swing to the player's side. This could be corroborated in the dialogue of the scenario, with the half-djiin asking dawoud and iskandar to release the minotaurs after the battle, since they would have already be a great help against kesh and not everyone has to bear the same responsibility as the party has.
Previously there was almost no carriable gold from this scenario, but now it's really high. Without modifying the scenario, setting it to having no extra gold transferred would make it easier to balance the amount of buyables able to be purchased on the next scenario.

Hope this is useful for you.

EDIT:
Th'arwya:

Spoiler:

Dialogue/story: Small suggestions for the new pieces of dialogue:

"Ohhh! All these merchants! All those relics and artifacts! Now it's time to get some goodies for myself, right? Kesh isn't the true problem, the true problem is that i don´t have enough gold to buy all this stuff!"

"I am happy to see Th'arwya, a city where both men and djinn happily live and prosper together. This reminds me of the early ages of these desert realms, where djinn helped men to build their gigantic cities. But something is odd here, I can feel the presence of someone with a divided heart. Someone like me..."
Bugs: The warning about potions acting as items doesn't appear in this scenario, which is now the only one where potions are available to be bought.
Balariel is not able to equip any kind of item, is this intended?
Final gold: 32 bonus gold.

Blackhands:

Spoiler:

Difficulty: 6, the mazelike structure of the level calls for small teams that must prevail with minimal losses, given the few resources available. It´s difficult to end it with much time left, but there's not much challenge in the fights themselves.
Dialogue/story: Sugestions for the dialogues:

"This is the canalisation, the thieves must be somewhere in here"

By reading the dialogue from the file of the scenario, there should be dialogue between the half-djin and shab. However, this dialogue never triggered in the scenario, shab only talked when he was near death.
Level of fun: 8, nice change of pace since there wasn´t a scenario that acts like a "labyrinth". The traps and bifurcations along all of the path are nice additions.
Major challenges: Apparently not being able to read properly and realize that wasn´t necessary to kill all enemy leaders.
Restarts:0.
Bugs: I think the missing dialogue between shab and the half-djiin might be a bug.
Final statistics:2 recruits, 7 recalls, 1 advancement, 2 losses, 46 kills, 121 bonus gold.

[taptap]

Regarding the few turkish sentences at the beginning: I know that this isn't an ideal solution but it's the best I had been able to come up with yet.

Imo, it is perfectly fine for them to speak Turkish. You wrote some dialogue for them after all, having it completely unreadable would be a waste. I would just like to know whether you want to put it into proper Turkish or let it be as a placeholder that no one should bother about. Currently it is just weird for ppl like me, it gives the campaign a much less finished air than it must have to others.

[Kwandulin]

The suggestions sounds good, especially the one with the minotaurs. I've applied the changes for now, the next update isn't up yet, though.
I think the problem with the Chamber of the Ancients is, that the player is fighting undead, that easily get shredded by Ilriel. For now, I am thinking about removing that scenario, as just finishing the Three Kings isn't a path many players choose and also the Chamber is giving too much XP in comparison to finishing the Three Kings.

In "Six Feet Under", I've changed it so, that the dragon's eye can not be picked up directly anymore, but rather a skeletal dragon spawns once a player's unit steps onto the bones. If the player then kills the dragon, the equipable dragon's eye is spawned.
In "Beneath the Sands", there will be an additional undead leader in the middle of the path, that spawns some mummies that poison and slow and some ghosts. Also, the dwarvish leader won't send his units so far away.

For the next update, I also want to tackle the items in Th'arwya. Do you think that some items are redundant or too powerful? Do you think that the choice of items in Th'arwya determines the outcome of the following scenarios or are most items just "nice to have" and not "need to have"? Do you think there should be more or less items? What's your opinion about the items that are in some case "leveled", e.g. a light spear granting +15% damage and a heavy spear granting +35%? My aim is to make Th'arwya not so loaded, thus replacing those two spears with a single spear that adds a flat bonus and do the same to the other items. Ideas?

On a sidenote, the few "turkish" sentences at the beginning are just some flavour, I don't care too much about them.

The next update will also receive some really tasty stuff. The story screens should be working by then, so the update will come after the next dev release.

[ahmannar]

Going into more detail about being easy to farm the "Chamber of Ancients", i think that having Ilriel with the Eye of the Dragon, while being powered up by dawoud, makes it almost certain to kill any undead unit. Combining this with putting another unit in front of her after it, it makes trivial to get rid of all of them. Removing the scenario for now seems like a good alternative.

The new additions on the other 2 scenarios seem quite good .

Regarding the items, i'll give my opinion regarding each one of your questions:

Spoiler:

-> There's the two situations right now. The tower shield (gives steadfast and costs 30 gold) is too powerful because it enables specific units to become almost unkillable (dawoud, uthain, the wyvern riders,...) and the gold cost for it should probably be over 100 gold pieces to be considered a balanced one. The armour that gives +40 hp also seems too good, it´s a really large amount.
The "leveled" up items seem a little bit redundant, since the difference in cost between them isn't proportional to the extra benefits they give, it seems that it's better to have few units with items, but with a higher quality;

-> From all of the items, i think that the armour that gives steadfast is very difficult to balance. As you can see from my replays from the previous playtrough (and the ones i'll put eventually), uthain and dawoud are able to tank a large number of enemies with it without any risk of getting killed.
The fact that Nuvdael can equip the bow from "Isanbar" and another one from the city increases His total ranged damage from 27 to 57, which is a great increase and makes the AMLA of getting 1 extra attack the better choice of the 3 (in total, this makes for a total of 114 total ranged damage per turn). Making so that he can only equip 1 weapon would make it worthwhile to choose the others AMLA and make him more balanced;

-> With higher values of gold for some items (like the armours, particularly the steadfast one), the items can become more balanced. Maybe having different kinds of weapons is unnecessary and having only one is enough;

-> Having flat damage on the weapons seems more easy to balance. With things like ToD, traits and leadership present in the game, the increase in damage by % given by the weapons makes for far greater damage than if it was only flat damage;

->Some increases can be more valuable than others. With the amount of "awesome units" in the game (2 heroes, the commander units and the level 4 units), stats like hp are even more valuable than normal. Two possible ways to balance the items are the following: the first is identifying the stats that make extremely powerful units (steadfast, high amount of hp,...) and price them really high. The second is having the prices practiced now, while only giving small benefits.

If taptap/anyone else is available to alter those sentences from the first scenarios to better match the turkish language, i think it wouldn't hurt to do it. It wouldn't make a difference to the people that can´t read it, but it's indeed possible that there are more persons in that situation.

EDIT:

Spoiler:

Where can a djiin be found in the new version? I couldn't find a way to get one.

Return to Th'arwya:

Spoiler:

Difficulty:7, since there will be a rebalance of the items, i'll wait for it before commenting if the extra 200 gold seems too much gold given.
Dialogue/story: By reading the scenario file (and from previous experience), it doesn´t seem like closing the penultimate portal should lead to the victory. Shouldn´t it end when trying to close the last portal?
Level of fun:8.
Restarts:0.
Bugs: Iskandar makes his dialogue about closing the portal everytime he's 1 hex away from it, even after closing it and it not being there anymore.
Don't know if the event regarding the end of the scenario mentioned in the "Dialogue/story" is also another bug.
Final statistics: 3 recruits, 14 recalls, 7 advancements, 3 losses, 49 kills, 24 bonus gold.

The Great Wall:

Spoiler:

Difficulty:7, the improved calik, as well as the extra bodyguards for equaba, make for an increase of the difficulty in here.
Dialogue/story: After the half-djin talks about wanting to kill Equaba for what he did in the past, there could appear a note in the objectives saying that an reward will appear for him if he's the one who kills Equaba (like the note that appears in the scenario "Peril").
Level of fun: 8.
Restarts:0.
Bugs: Ibn Khazul still comes into this scenario with 0 xp, despite having been fed some in the scenario "Pearl of the Desert".
Even after killing Equaba with the half-djiin, no reward was given.
Final statistics:2 recruits, 9 recalls, 3 advancements, 3 losses, 42 kills,136 bonus gold.
Random Remark: There's some disparity between the power that some commander units and heroes can achieve right now because of their difference in levels and the extra power they can gain when under leadership (dawoud can achieve huge damage with leadership, for example). I would suggest that the level of the commander units and the heroes goes up when they get the final AMLA, in order to reflect that increase in power and to not have such an advantage when near a leadership-unit when compared to other units with similar power (don't know if this would be too much after the rebalance of the next version).

Uzar the Betrayer:

Spoiler:

Difficulty:6, the more powerful calik and extra spawn units increased the difficulty in here.
Dialogue/story: I know that this scenario is already loaded with dialogue so suggesting this can be a no-no, but having an event such as the khalifate being unpetrified and not having any reaction from the player's units seems strange.
Level of fun:8.
Restarts:0.
Bugs: Didn´t find any of these.
Final statistics: 7 recruits, 13 recalls, 5 losses, 31 kills, -23 bonus gold.
Random remark: Since the gold won't be used in the remaining scenarios, setting the carryover gold to 0% could prevent players from trying to preserve it when there's no need for it.

Above the Stars and below the Earth:

Spoiler:

Bugs: Didn´t find any of these.
Restarts:0.
Random Remark: In case you eventually want to use the idea that i gave regarding this scenario from the last playtrough, setting the carryover gold to 0 and making so that the units recruited in here disappear from the recall list, after the scenario has ended, would ensure that only exp given to the heroes and commander units would be the advantage taken from it (considering the high amounts required at this point, wouldn't be too much of an advantage probably).

All Alone:

Spoiler:

In the piece of dialogue where Ilriel should say "It's good to have you at my side. But first we have to wait until Ilarøth and the others return from within the Sphere.", she's only saying "It's good to have you at my side. But first we have to wait until Ilar".

Battle of Aeons:

Spoiler:

Difficulty:6.
Restarts:0.
Bugs: Objectives state that time running out is a defeat condition, but the scenario has no turn limit.
Whadet starts the scenario among the player's army, although he should have came from inside the sphere.
Final statistics:4 advancements, 28 losses, 58 kills, 123 bonus gold. There's no need to have carryover gold, since this is the last scenario of the campaign.

Final remarks!:

Spoiler:

-> There could be an distinction between the battle scenarios and the story-only scenarios when selecting the campaign (from all of them, 17 are battle scenarios and the rest is story/thar'wya);

->Are you planning to use the story screens in the next update as way to pass some of the story from the scenarios to them?

->After taking one AMLA, the altawir starts leveling up normally after reaching the max exp. Don´t know if it's intended, so i'm just stating it;

[Kwandulin]

Oh right, a djinn can't be found right now, I'll add one. You can still get Wahdet by moving a non-hero L4 to him.

Regarding the items, I'll go with the second way then, keeping the prices and the bonus stats low

[tr0ll]

There was a minor djinn in UtBS, a small object can be picked up and opened and becomes a dust devil with AMLA advancements.
http://units.wesnoth.org/1.12/mainline/ ... Devil.html

[Kwandulin]

Thanks for the hints regarding the bugs, I can reproduce them and can probably squash them.

-> There could be an distinction between the battle scenarios and the story-only scenarios when selecting the campaign (from all of them, 17 are battle scenarios and the rest is story/thar'wya);

That's a good idea!

->Are you planning to use the story screens in the next update as way to pass some of the story from the scenarios to them?

There are still some minor plotholes that I'd like to work out a bit with the help of story screens, e.g. why there are woses at Serrul. The woses even say that after the fight they are willing to tell their story, which doesn't happen then, though.

->After taking one AMLA, the altawir starts leveling up normally after reaching the max exp. Don´t know if it's intended, so i'm just stating it;

Yes, that's intended.

Thanks again for your effort! It seems like the dev release got postponed, so the next update for OoA will also take some more time then.

There was a minor djinn in UtBS, a small object can be picked up and opened and becomes a dust devil with AMLA advancements.
http://units.wesnoth.org/1.12/mainline/ ... Devil.html

The campaign already has a djinn, it just can't be found within a scenario, currently

[zepko]

In scenario Battle of the Eons, I suggest that you increase the distance between the player's army and the Three Kings. Or, at least, be sure that the three Kings do not pick the 'quick' trait, otherwise it is too easy to kill them. In my play, one of them was 'quick', and two could reach one of my units at turn 1, so two of them were killed during the first turn. If, by chance, also the other had picked the 'quick' trait, the scenario would have ended at turn 3, without the need to face the whole army (see the attached replay, I know I have not played well this scenario but I wanted to finish it quickly).

Possible bugs/strange things/random thoughts:
- The campaign is well written and designed, and I enjoyed playing it, despite my lack of thrill for the Khalifate units.
- I played on medium, but I found it definitely easy. The only scenario I found tricky was 'Beneath the sands', where I got the defeat message without seeing what was happening. One of the miners went ahead and got killed. If not the control of the miners, it would be good to have at least the vision of what the miners see.
- An Altawir did not fully heal after an AMLA (see the same attached replay).
- The moving animation of a Saray with the Lixandryl sword is a bit strange, as the unit disappears and reappears, but the halo remains visible and moves around the map.
- In 'A whisper in the sand' one of the units I found in the central village could not move in the turn it turned to my side.
- In 'A whisper in the sand', when acquiring the new units, it would be good to have the vision extended to what they see. This maybe can be achieved with a [redraw][/redraw] tag, but I'm not really sure.
- In 'Drought' an Arif has name starting without capital letter.
- In 'Peril' the fact that elves go to capture my villages near the starting keep makes things easier as they get delayed and do not arrive all together.
- In 'Three Kings' I suggest that killing the enemy leader does not end the scenario but instead the player still has the option to enter the bonus scenario.
- The bonus scenario is really easy, I could defeat all enemies without any problem.
- I think the hero units should all be loyal.
- In 'Cloud river' Iskandar has no XP carried from the previous scenario.
- In 'Th'arwya' is there a -2 income? This is solved by capturing villages, but I think you should set the income to 0 (I think this depends on the non loyal heroes).
- The sprite of Ilriel (advanced level) does not fit the square in the sidebar. She appears without head.
- In 'The great wall' it is a bit annoying that some of my troops are brought back to the starting point when Ridwan arrives.
- In 'The great wall' the cetral part of the scenario is a bit boring, just moving units without enemies around.
- In 'Uzar the betrayer' the objectives note "You can recruit from the tiles next to the entrance" is wrong.
- Knockback has some strange behavior. It is not clear what happens when a unit is hit with knockback but there is an unwalkable terrain behind.
- The hero units are overpowered. Dawoud in the final scenarios could attack with 37x3, two attacks, with marksman (when supported by leadership and Ilriel).
- There are way too many loyal units. In one of the later scenarios I had a very big army which required almost no upkeep.

Good work!!

[Kwandulin]

Thanks for the notes! I think I can fix most of them (the arif starting without a capital letter is some engine generated flaw, though). I'm glad you found the issue with the income in Th'arwya and the non-loyal heroes, which is very helpful.
Dawoud being so strong is because he is a level 1 unit, thus gaining +100% damage from the wyvern siegebreaker and another +33% from Ilriel. I'll set his level to 3 and the bonus damage gained from to +20%.

Also your replay was very nice, as it's always interesting to see the unit composition of other players. Thanks again!