"Reload" - attack type
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"Reload" - attack type
Briefly: is it possible to encode in WML attacks that deal extensive damage, but after delivering attack they are unusable in next turn?
Example: some dragonstick variation that would deal much more damage than ordinary one, but would require some time to reload (one turn)
Example: some dragonstick variation that would deal much more damage than ordinary one, but would require some time to reload (one turn)
Well, it is possible in WML, but not normally. (The WML would do something with newturn events, and setting the unit's attack to 0-0...)
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Yes, you could do this in WML. It'd be a little bit complex, but quite doable. Basically what you need to do is to store the turn number somewhere in the attacking unit's unit variables, and in new turn or side turn events go through all the units that have the ability and check how the current turn number corresponds with the turn on which they last fired their weapon. Then you can either disable or enable the attack by some means (there are ways to do this, ask if you can't find any).
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I think this ability will be way overpowered. let's say the reloading thunderstick is (36-1) "reload". you could easily abuse this by making two waves of reloading units, so while the wave that just attacked is in its "reload turn" the second wave will jump ahead and attack. next turn, while the wave that just attacked is reloading, the now reloaded wave will jump ahead, and so on and so on. The only solution to this would be make the unit cost a lot of gold, but this would then make the strategy hit-and-run, even if you defend the reloading unit with another party.
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Abillities are only overpowered when the unit is made in such a manner that it overpowers the abillity.Dragon Master wrote:I think this ability will be way overpowered. let's say the reloading thunderstick is (36-1) "reload". you could easily abuse this by making two waves of reloading units, so while the wave that just attacked is in its "reload turn" the second wave will jump ahead and attack. next turn, while the wave that just attacked is reloading, the now reloaded wave will jump ahead, and so on and so on. The only solution to this would be make the unit cost a lot of gold, but this would then make the strategy hit-and-run, even if you defend the reloading unit with another party.
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For questions like this where there's (apparently) no intent that the idea should be officially accepted, it's probably better to take the question to the WML forum in the first instance.
OTOH, if you want to seek input re: whether it's balanced etc., this is probably the place. (And in which case, you should probably say so in your post).
On which topic:
OTOH, if you want to seek input re: whether it's balanced etc., this is probably the place. (And in which case, you should probably say so in your post).
On which topic:
It's arguable whether it counts as "abuse". Surely if you have twice as many, half of which attack at a timedealing double damage, then it's bringing twice theamount of power per turn to bear as the status quo, and costing double to do it?Dragonmaster wrote:I think this ability will be way overpowered. let's say the reloading thunderstick is (36-1) "reload". you could easily abuse this by making two waves of reloading units, so while the wave that just attacked is in its "reload turn" the second wave will jump ahead and attack.
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Ha, ha - sounds like some zen truth, Neo.Abillities are only overpowered when the unit is made in such a manner that it overpowers the abillity.
Good point. So e.g. (I speak of the current ones) 8 thunderers are overpowered because you can put 4 in the front line and 4 behid and change between them back and forth? Applies to any given unit actually...It's arguable whether it counts as "abuse". Surely if you have twice as many, half of which attack at a timedealing double damage, then it's bringing twice theamount of power per turn to bear as the status quo, and costing double to do it?
If they (now I'm speaking of the new "pseudo-thunderers") didn't have the "reload times" then they'd be able to shoot all at once for twice the power - THAT'D be overpowered.
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It was just an example. All I was aiming at was to get another concept, that would make some units tactically distinctive.Tomsik wrote:Right now that you need much time to reload thunderstick is represented by only one shoot with it(18-1), i don't see why you would need to make unit shoot even more rarely.