The Peasants' Crusade

[michaelan]

Hey! I'm currently developing my own campaign, The Peasants' Crusade, and I'd really appreciate some feedback on how it is so far. Currently, the campaign has four scenarios, one dialogue only.

Mainly, I'm concerned about a few things:

Spoiler:

In "Homecoming", the player is given the choice of either killing the outlaw leader or getting to the signpost. Killing the leader is obviously more difficult, allowing more experience to go around, but also reducing the amount of gold leftover. I want to make sure that either option isn't MUCH better than the other.
The difficulty of "Desperate Defense" fluctuates a lot, as both sides gain reinforcements. I don't want the scenario to be too hard to easy at any particular point.
Additionally, the beginning of the plot centers around the main character going to a sort of military academy in Weldyn. Is there anything canonically stating that there absolutely was not something like this there?

Here is the campaign file:

The_Peasants'_Crusade.zip

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Thank you very much for playing my campaign. Please point out anything that you like or dislike.

[Chief_Chasso]

Hi, I played through what you've done so far...

Spoiler:

The scenario with the sign post or kill the outlaw objective is "Homecoming". For me, getting to the sign post was much easier. I just took all my starting units plus recruited 3 woodsmen and just moved north, then west towards the sign post. There were a few thugs along the way, but that's about it. I made it there on turn 12/30 and ended up with a 200 gold bonus anyway. Also on this scenario- the [sighted] event seems funky. It executed right after I recruited my first unit.

I found "Deseperate Defense" to be difficult. You're going up against hordes of orcs with only level 0 units. The trolls on turn 10 didn't show up? But the "ford" was created anyway. But overall not a bad scenario.

Also, I found a few typos:

Spoiler:

S 02- "Don't thank us. You have eanred this yourself." (should be "earned")
S 03- "You'll need a scout to se through this thick fog... (should be "see")
S 04- "...Screw this [censored], IU+0027m out... (not sure if "IU+0027m" was intended)

Will you eventually upload this to the add-on server? Nice job.

[michaelan]

Thanks for the feedback! I'll fix a few bugs, and make Homecoming harder, and Desperate Defense easier.
I will upload this to the add-ons server when it's finished, though that's quite a ways away.
The sighted event has been buggy in general for a while, so I think I'll just change it to an attack event.
The trolls really never showed up? They always do for me.

[Chief_Chasso]

The Trolls showed up now. Previously, I debugged to turn 10 so maybe that's why they didn't show up before. It might be kind of funny if the Trolls were rock lobbers

[michaelan]

I can't believe I didn't think of that...

[michaelan]

Come on, Guys. The campaign has been downloaded six times. Please provide any feedback or comments you can.

[WanderingHero]

Trying it now. Prologue is ok, though it seems odd Armin is described as being proficent in range combat and has no range attack.

Homecoming was fun and well made.

Desperate defense was fun and engaging, but the sudden appearance of trolls AND a crap ton of wolves seemed overkill, the sudden wolves really came out of nowhere and caught me from behind. Its a nasty Tomato surprise and one the player would be less prepared for than you, even if you see what the trolls are doing. On the plus side "I was supposed to die rich! And not die!" is probably the funniest death qoute in Wesnoth. Maybe my fault for playing hard, but a sudden wolf rush on the side your probably not defending is nasty for anyone.

The writing is minimiliatic but above average for Wesnoth standards, and the scenarios made me feel that I was really in the protaginists shoes, though you should show the leads leadership ability rather than just tell us.

Also could you give Dartius a marker or something? Cause I kept losing him in my flood of woodsman and got a few gameovers when i wasnt sure which was D and which was an expendable woodman.

Overall its definitely an above par campiagn, the scenarios are original and strategically engaging, the story is better than average, the gameplay is distinctly better than other campaigns involving lv 0s and you should really put this on the official download server if you want more views and feedback. You should give this campiagn an article to make it easier to find, the Recruit sprite might be a good idea.

I spotted some typos

In the first scenario "don't thank us yet you have eanred this".

For the next scenario the guy says "outlaw sighted" when you recruit, which seems strange

And the outlaw in desperate defense says:
"Outh screw this [censored] IU+00027m out."

[Fluffbeast]

In the scenario Homecoming, killing the bandit outlaw triggered the ending dialogues, but did not end the scenario. I had to move to the signpost anyway, triggering the ending dialogues yet again.