Ageless Era - Current Version: 4.37

[Ravana]

https://github.com/ProditorMagnus/Agele ... d4619b5c21

[Konrad2]

I think this guy should have hatchet set as ranged weapon, not as melee as its now.
https://units.wesnoth.org/1.18/Ageless_ ... arden.html

Ftr, that seems to be an oversight that was present in the Armies of Amberan era.
I also think that should be fixed, as the hatchet has the same dmg type as the axe attack.

[IPS]

I think this guy should have hatchet set as ranged weapon, not as melee as its now.
https://units.wesnoth.org/1.18/Ageless_ ... arden.html

Ftr, that seems to be an oversight that was present in the Armies of Amberan era.
I also think that should be fixed, as the hatchet has the same dmg type as the axe attack.

Yes that will be fixed and also ranged attack will get buffed because the unit being worse than Dwarvish Lord. Thanks for mentioning.

[IPS]

Been quite bored and I had a looong wesnoth hiatus, so I'ma start working in balance changes pretty soon (this week).

Expect news in soon!

[IPS]

Done, might not do something too big in this release, just a small QOL balancing in most new added content (AOA and FL eras). As well as some independant faction balance such as Steel Hive rework.

Spoiler:

AE - Harpies

- Harpy Traveler XP to 51 (+9)
- Harpy Messenge price to 44g (+9g)

- Night harpy XP to 36 (-4)
- Harpy Phantom HP to 55 (+2) , AMLA XP to 134 (-16)



AE - Frozen Human
- Frost Queen secondary attack change from arcane to cold
- Golem King cold atack damage from 13-2 to 16-2
- Golem Titan cold atack damage from 17-2 to 20-2




AE - SteelHive
Steelhive will receive a rework, particularly drastically changing their gameplay.
Their main units will get nerf (oculus, rocketer) and slasher will get reworked to be more swift and less tanky.

All more secondary units will receive just buffs, rewarding players that uses them well.



- Rocketer HP to 31 (-1) , XP to 45 (+1) , price to 17g (+1g)
- Bombardier HP to 45 (-1) , price to 34g (+4g)
- Dreadnough price to 62g (+7g)
New unit is performing way too good... minor nerfs

- Oculus HP to 37 (-1) , XP to 41 (+2g)
- Sparkgazer XP to 85 (+3) , price to 32g (+3g)
- Boltstrike HP to 61 (-1) , price to 63g (+8g)
- Sentinel melee damage to 13-2 (+1) , price to 60g (+5g)
CRAZY HIGH STATS LINE, needed nerf


- Drone HP to 31 (+1) , all levels fire res to 0% (+10%)
- Larva HP to 34 (+2)
- Welder HP to 31 (+1) , XP to 26 (-1)

- Slasher HP to 33 (-3) , movement to 6 (+1) , blade attack from 7-3 to 5-4 , pierce attack from 9-2 to 6-3
- All Slasher and advancement cold res to 0% (+10%) -only zerker keeps cold weakness-
Just wanted to rework the lv1 slasher, so it has less inconsistencies with lv2 advancement.
Not as usual melee fighter that is for tankyness, slasher is swift, deadly but fragible.
Now is more cost efficient but weaker, but matches better with prices considering it has no traits.

- Vector HP to 51 (-2) , XP to 82 (+5) , price to 30g (+3g)
- Amniote fire & impact res to 0% (+10%)
- Avalanche HP to 83 (+6) , price to 75g (+3g)


AE - Dark Legion
- Gunner HP to 54 (+3)
- Elite Gunner HP to 69 (+3) , ranged damage to 32-1 (+2)


EE - Monsters
- Wolf howler will now have distract (bug in code preventing it having the aura)



AOA - Dwarven Kingdoms
- Warden hatchet damage from 10-1 to 7-2 and is now a ranged attack.


AOA - Farengarian Counties
- Thane axe damage to 10-3 (-1)
- Lord axe damage to 14-3 (-1) , hammer damage to 18-2 (-1) , hatchet damage to 7-1 (-3)
- Count HP to 85 (-5) , hatchet damage to 10-1 (-3)

- Heavy Fighter blade res to 30% (+10%)

- Runesmage melee damage to 12-3 (+3) , ranged damage to 9-4 (-1)
- Runes Archmage all damages decrease by 1



AOA - Ferengarian Kingodms
- Mage HP to 45 (+3) , XP to 85 (-3)
- Initiate XP to 40 (-7)



AOA - Finn's Empire
- Pikeman XP to 82 (+9) , XP to 82 (+9)
- Lanquenet all damages decrease by 1

- Light Cannon HP to 35 (+1) , XP to 37 (-3)
- Cannon HP to 45 (+3) , XP to 77 (-3)
- Great Cannon HP to 57 (+3)
- Mortar movement to 5 (+1)
- Master At Arms price to 54g (+5g)


AOA - Kingdoms of Rovahr
- Monk Soldier price to 21g (+2g)
- Novice HP to 26 (+1) , XP to 42 (-4)
- Ritterbrüder HP to 77 (+5)



AOA - Mauve Islands Federation

- Mage-blade fire/cold res to 10% (+10%)
- Magistrer fire/cold res to 20% (+20%) , arcane res to 20% (+10%) , now has +Magic-counter in melee
Magistrer is now some kind of hybrid fighter mage with good magical resistance.
Considering he's swift foot, he's an extraordinary tank againist non magical fire/cold attackers.

- Warrior mage fire/cold res to 10% (-10%) , pierce res to 0% (-20%)
- Knight Arcanist fire/cold res to 10% (-10%) , pierce res to 0% (-20%)
Too OP, needed a severe nerf.

- Arcanist XP to 105 (+5)

- Chieftain damage to 14-3 (-1)


AOA - Mountain Goblins
- Bowman NEW ATTACK: fire arrow 6-2 fire ranged


AOA - Norse Jarldoms
- Mounted Bowman HP to 54 (+6) , price to 32g (+3g)
- Mounted Arhcer HP to 67 (+8) , price to 54g (+6g) , AMLA XP to 126 (-24)
So this option can be quite much more viable in comparation of the other

- Pluderer XP to 37 (-2)

- Guard XP to 40 (-5)
- Soldier XP to 77 (-6)
- Rampart melee damage to 11-3 (+1)
No damage, can't carry by himself

- Destructive AMLA XP to 126 (-24)

- Nordic bowman HP to 47 (+2)
- Nordic master archer HP to 63 (+3) , ranged damage to 8-4 (+1)



FL - Altaris
- Conjurer XP to 36 (-4)
- Illusionist HP to 42 (+1) , all ranged damage increase by 1
- Master Illusionist HP to 56 (+1) , now the unit regens 3 passively

- Lord of Earth HP to 48 (+2)

- Arcane warrior HP to 55 (+3)
- Master at Arms movement to 6 (+1) , price to 31g (+2g)



FL - Amazons
- Forest Ghost now regenerates 4 passively


FL - Blood Elves
Blood Elves are being too strong in early game, but also quite weak in lategame.
Let's adjust both aspects.


- Dark Crossbowman HP to 32 (-1) , price to 16g (+1g)
- Dark Marksman XP to 75 (+5)
- Ballistic Crossbowman melee damage to 5-3 (-1)
- Blood Hunter has no longer marksman in ranged
It has ressists, decent health, improved movement cost and defenses, high dmgs , doesn't need marksman ranged

- Phoenix hatching regenerates value from 2 to 3
This needs a severe buff because of nerfs in other units in this faction


- Dark Swordsman movement XP to 44 (+2) , price to 18g (+1g)
- Fire Warrior fire res to 60% (+20%)
Basically 1/3 less fire damage taken if no modded.
- Grand Warrior / Blood Warrior fire res to 35% (+5%)
- Blood Warrior now regenerates 3

- Great Minotaur regenerates value from 4 to 5

- Black Lizard AMLA XP to 120 (-30)

- Assassin Master NEW ATTACK: Burning blade 8-5 fire melee (no specials, no features, JUST FIRE DAMAGE)
Now also regenerates 4
It's an interesting bonus to make the unit quite more unique. It can now either do 8-5 blade poison (no backstab) or instead do 8-5 fire damage no special on melee.
Which can be quite useful against mechanical, undead and some other types of enemies.

I'm also planning in soon to take rid of the sentient unit, and use its sprite for a lv2 version of light-shifter/Mirge with more viable stats and becoming a good lv2 unit, while I have not coded that, I plan to do that in soon.

Mentioned rebalance changes will be summited TOMORROW. I doubt I do more balance with exception of mentioned, but hey, at least are some few docens of units , but a very very small (but needed) balance change

[Ravana]

I have watched all ageless tournament replays and these give some balance points to review.

[IPS]

I have watched all ageless tournament replays and these give some balance points to review.

Is there any table of results to look at? I'm pretty much interesting to view them.

[Ravana]

Game chat is what I meant, not result.

[IPS]

Game chat is what I meant, not result.

Might look at that soon later.


For the curious people, I added very minor balance changes, this is the exact actual balance changelog at the moment.
https://github.com/ProditorMagnus/Agele ... 3a66c7250b

Only pending thing is remove sentient unit in prior of using it as a lv2 lightshifter with more default-like/eoma use.

Idea of Lv2 Prisma (advancement of Mirage) is having Greater marksman (80%) attack with concentrated and probably a damage of 8-3 and will deflect so it can return to the atacker part of the fire/cold/arcane damage taken, which is greatly decreased by the unit being so resistant to that... take in considerations that the base max damage of this unit is 27 , the average damage dealt is 21.6 , but this insanely increases the more strikes the unit gains in modding .... so it could pair with Cosmic Eye if a lot of strikes upgrades and becoming a brutally strong arcane mage with also extreme magical resistances. Notice that this unit will require an insane mount of XP to lv2 (greater than 70 , at least) meaning this unit will be very strong just in late and endgame modded games.

[MrDeath666]

Tiny issue of (IE - Arendian) Druid (and it's advancements) using arrow animations despite spewing fireballs.

[Ravana]

Tiny issue of (IE - Arendian) Druid (and it's advancements) using arrow animations despite spewing fireballs.

Fixed.

[IPS]

Will also inform that there will be another minor waves of rebalancing towards some really old units, and it's planned to add a new recruit to EE - Oultaws and will try to make a lv3 advancement for EE- Outlaws ogre.

The lightshifter lv2 prisma update and the removal of the sentient unit will be postponed for another version, as sincerely I'm more against removing old units over just adding some new units... so maybe, I will just make sentient unrecruitable for steelhive faction in normal gameplay in 4.39 instead of a complete removal of the unit.

Specificacion of the new outlaw unit , but in overall it will be a very cheap and low stats melee attacker (like 13g cost) that will have a secondary blade attack (4-3) and the torch melee probably 6-2 in lv1 , but him having access to very weak ranged in lv2 and lv3. The unit will be very low stats (health, damage, also very fast to level up) but the unit will move at least 6 movement points.

My ideas for the new troublemaker unit stats something like this for the following lv1 - lv3

Lv1 HP 30 , 4-3 blade melee +first-strike, 5-3 fire melee, 6 movement, XP 32 , 10% more defense at flat / sand / water tiles / bad terrains , price 13g
Lv2 HP 47 , 5-5 blade melee +first-strike, 8-3 fire melee, 3-3 fire ranged , movement 6 , XP 60 , 10% more defense at flat / sand / water tiles / bad terrains , price 21g
Lv3 HP 65 , 7-5 blade melee +first-strike, 9-4 fire melee , 4-4 fire ranged , movement 6 , AMLA XP 126 , 10% more defense at flat / sand / water tiles / bad terrains , 10% fire/cold res , price: 42g

In overall the unit will be very weak but very cheap to level up.

(Post been edited like a couple of times, but I think lv1 costing 13g but having 10% more defense in -bad- terrains helps him a bit at being some type of off-tank that at leasts takes less damage than thug, considering how bad are his attacks for a lv1 unit)


Might probably add a lv3 advancement for Naga assassin too, but the advancement instead of being something really good.... might be buff just because decreasing the amount of XP required to full reheal/advance rather of the stats gained from a lv3

So yeah, outlaws will get new units and buffs in overall, making them be quite more interesting to use... so that's coming and more!

[IPS]

Will also additionally, add at least 2 new factions to Ageless Great Wars to make it miss less original content from Ageless Era, so less units are about to be missing between the faction compilations!

Divine Justice: Mostly arcane attackers, paladins, Ceressian League, Luz and bit more! , sadly have to missout loyalist units because that could make them way too powerful!

Cold Blooded Aliance:Basically Dark Blooded Aliance with even more units... including free saurian units and some more.


Will also look at older posts of postponed factions mentioned for Ageless Great Wars, but I'm sure that at least a more physical variant of loyalist than Army of Freedom , might consider one for Chaos/Dark Legion cause that was also not included yet... and ofc, to not miss the new outlaw units in Armies of Freedom - AE Great Wars faction!

[IPS]

By the way, at the moment I've finished at creating the 2 upcoming new Ageless Great Wars factions.

- Cold Blooded Aliance: In resume, Dark Blood Aliance with Free Saurian units, altough few recruitable options they have very strong mages, wyvern riders and toad riders, which is lot to say.

- Divine Justice: Lots of arcane mages and melee attackers, with the assistance of angels and pegassus riders. By design, it's intentional they don't have acess to fire/cold ranged magical and normal piercing archers with exception of lv2 elemental archers . This faction includes Luz, Celestials, some Ceressian units and some Kharos units. Curiously they have access to the Fanatic zerkers but not from some units like Shielders or White warriors because some of these units could make Divine Justice way toooooo powerful... (Kharo's Fire Priestess, Sun Follower, BROWN WARRIORs...). In case the faction feels too weak new units can be added later on. They're also missing solid fighters like Squire from Ceressian League faction, so their tankiest units are their Ceressian horse riders and Luz Witchhunters. Considering they have accesss to lv1 healing +8 , might work very well. As a curiosity, this faction has access to melee and ranged slowing attacks if picking correctly their units.