World Conquest II

[tekelili]

Campaign available in 1.10 add on server. (Develoded until 0.5.3.2, used name World Conquest tek. Not longer maintained)
Campaign available in 1.12 add on server. (Not longer maintained)
Campaign available in 1.14 add on server. (Last developed version. Maintained)
Note: All info is updated to last developed version and could not match 1.10 or 1.12
In BfW 1.14 and 1.12 scenarios are found in Multiplayer>>Random Maps

World Conquest II is an evolution from the awesome campaign created by TL and maintained by Natasiel.

What follows is info about changes developed from Classic World Conquest, aimed to players used to it. If you never played World Conquest before, there is a description for new comers in second post.

Warning about difficulty!:

Difficulty has increased dramatically compared to classic World Conqest. Nightmare level is now dessigned to offer a very difficult challenge to the most skilled players with lot of experience in World Conquest campaign. I very recommend start at medium difficulty levels like Liutenant to average players, get experience in the new mechanics, and advance to next difficulty level once they really beat last map. I know it is cool beat a level called "Nightmare", but from my point of view is more cool beat a "real nightmare" despite how is called. If a player earns skill and imoproves throught practice, I also think is cool game offers a new level of challenge, instead become boring because he already beated the hardest one. I scaled carefully difficulty levels to be challenging to all kind of players.

I really want remark this issue to avoid players unnecessary frustation:
- Peasant is not a tutorial. WC II is a multiplayer campaign aimed to players with knowledge of BfW mechanics and Default units stats. This difficulty is a very difficult challenge for players that have just barely reach to that status.

- Liutenant is not a difficulty for noobs. It is a difficult challenge for players with average skill and a few years of experience in multiplayer server.

- Nightmare is not difficulty for average players. It is a very difficult challenge for players with high skill and lot of experience in World Conquest II.

WoCopedia: I have removed "heavy data" info from this post like trainings or factions recruit. All of them are available using the right-click help option "WoCopedia". It is more user-friendly consulte that info there and, as is autogenerated, save me editing work and is always updated and correct.

Changes developed:

New Era

Why new Era?:

Classic World Conquest wasnt played in default era. Instead players got a limited recruit list that was improved along campaign with several mechanics. This was a cool idea but wasnt working very well gameplay wise imho. The new era just recreate classic philossophy of improve army flexibility along campaign in a more fun way, forcing using more units types and provides a more balanced way to get healers for races without them. In general all factions have now more powerfull tools but overpowered spams are avoided.

- New era has 10 factions (add on only works by default with it). Units are defined in pairs, and every time a player recruit a unit, this one is remplaced in his recruit list.
This replace old system of cultivate or gain new recruits, players have "same recruiting list" all game.
As it is a variation from default, only host need era (included in add on). Era is for players only, AI still have same "factions" than WC Natasiel.

*The Empire has provisional status and is not available as random faction with default configuration.

- Redefined Defeat Conditions: Now players are defeated when any leader dies, heroes are not longer promoted to leader. However, players can hire a Commander, wich is a random hero from his faction, and will be promoted if leader dies. So now, if players want "extra lifes", they have to invest in it. Lose 50 gold upon leader death, removed.

Heores

- Redefined heroes autorecall limit to castle size (was 6 in classic WC)

- Redefined hero lists and initial helpers. Removed fishes and lvl0 heroes from helpers and commanders .

- Heroes are uniques in each list, so players wont get twice same hero from their commander, pickupables, desserters lists or from bonus points.

- Reduced initial heroes (helpers) to 1 (in Nightmare) and removed extra heores (allies) from map 3 and 5 (map 5 removed anyway).

- Added Deserter option to heroes (random helper +15 gold)

-Added new heroes to bonus points (Woodsman, Peasant, Dwarvish Scout, Jundi, Arif, Naffat, Hakim, Rami, Khaiyal)

- Hero traits changes
Expert: Now gives extra attack only to melee and +3 hp.
Epic: +1 Attack to both ranges, +6 hp and always AMLA with 60 xp with double benefict (rises maximun health by 6 HP).
Legendary: Enables special advancement, +1 Attack to both ranges, +5hp and +1hp per level.

Hero extra traits:

- legendary: Goblin Spearman,Walking Corpse

- epic: Orcish Assassin,Young Ogre,Ruffian,Woodsman

- expert: Ghoul,Poacher,Thief,Footpad,Saurian Skirmisher,Vampire Bat,Peasant,Hakim

- dextrous: Elvish Archer,Elvish Shaman,Elvish Scout,Elvish Fighter

- healthy: Dwarvish Guardsman,Dwarvish Ulfserker,Dwarvish Thunderer,Dwarvish Scout

- strong: Naga Fighter,Wolf Rider,Orcish Grunt,Drake Glider,Rami,Jundi

- resilent: Spearman,Fencer,Cavalryman,Merman Fighter,Merman Hunter,Mermaid Initiate,Naffat,Thug

- fearless: Heavy Infantryman,Bowman,Skeleton,Skeleton Archer,Saurian Augur,Troll Whelp,Orcish Archer

In resume, players have 3 options in "persuade a great hero": Commander, pickupable or desserter. Each option has 2 different factions(default wise) for each faction(WC II wise). Empire is exception to this rule, consulte WoCopedia for complete list.

Trainings

Redefined Trainings to buff them. Now they apply their effect to all new recruits in campaing and have upgrades
Training beneficts are displayed in a trait "trained".
Trainers can be found as random bonus (scenario wont generate a trainer for a training that player has already at maximun level in a random bonus)
Added a Trainer only available in random bonus. (Dark)
There are "redundancy consolation bonus" of +1HP for:
- Specials (unit has at least 1 attack at required range with that special)
- Abilities (unit has ability)
- Always rest heals (unit is healthy)
- Type arcane (unit has at least 1 attack type arcane at required range)
Usually trainers found in bonus points will give 1 training level; however for each training player already has, improves in 3% chances of find an advanced trainer (gives 2 levels). Map 4 will generete always advanced trainers and Dark one will be always advanced after map2.

Items

Redefined starting items, they are no longer related to factions. Players get a 10 random item list and is improved with 1 random item each map.
Normal units that pick an item become loyal (no upkeep) and gain overlay.

Item changes from Natasiel version:

Added items
Cursed symbol of life (ranged drain)
Hammer of the wose (+1 strike and +2 damage to impact attacks)
Sylph bow (+60% strikes and +1 damage to ranged physical attacks)
Forcefield (Adjacent enemies do 13% less damage)
Bezoar (undead + fearless + healthy + tenacity)
Terrific disguise (darkness + corruption + chaotic + distract)
Ring of power (+20% damage and disengage)
Ice bow (19-1 ranged cold slow attack)
Melange (+1 damage and +1 moves and -20% XP to advance for living creatures)

Modified items
Stormbringer (changed to bersek 3 instead 30. removed arcane weakness)
Holy symbol of life (changed image and name to "Herald Armor", illuminates/heals/firstrike/lawful)
Grimore of Truth (removed)
Tome of screts (change to just halves xp requirements, changed image)
Trollsblood potion (change image)
Phase Orb (change image and name to "The Key")
Zephyr cloak and Ring of stealth fusioned (now all effects in Zephyr cloak and removed Ring of stealth)
Eagle eye bow (change image)
Rune hammer (change image and name to Runic sword)
Poison (bonus damage reduced to 20%)
Winter's bloom (bonus hp reduced to +15)
Banner (bonus damage reduced to 20%)
Winged staff (changed bonus to +5 defense for flying creatures and corrected behavior on bats and guilder)

- Redefined "Rise Founds" to "Stock up supplies": +70 gold and 1 village (the keep).
Created 8 image variations for supply-villages (5 for users without add on installed).

- Redefined gold carryover to be comunitary. All players gold added is taken into acount, become 0 if negative, is added to early finish bonus and spread in equal amount among players after carryover percentage is applied. Map village amount (for bonus calculation) has been fixed for each scenario to not be affected for generator variances.

- Modified recall cost to "cost +3 gold" for player´s cheap units. (Cost displayed in menu)
Units with cost 17 or higher are still recalled for 20 gold.

- Removed Scenario 5. Campaign has now 5 scenarios with 1,2,3,4,6 enemies.

Map Generation

Removed Frozen Island map from fork 3.
Added a 5 new maps as variation to map2 (Lakes, Glaciers, Provinces, Paradise, Clayey)
Added a 4 new maps as variation to map3 (Delta, Sulfurous, Coral, Wetland)
Added a 5 new maps as variation to map4 (Volcanic, Mines, Podzol, Wicked, Wild)
Added a 3 new maps as variation to final one (Maritime, Industrial, Feudal)

Terrain changes to classic maps:
- Reduced clusters of cave wall to cave terrains.
Expanded snow to higher altitudes (very little gameplay effect).
Added reefs and underwater coast.
Changed a few hills and impassible mountains to mushrooms.
Chances of a few random castles on maps Desert-3, Island-4 and last one.
Chances of fords on map1.
Added bridges over swamp surronding castles in map 3 Savannah (old Desert), to soft isolation (not perfect solution). Desecated into sand some central swamps.
Added snow to last map.

New generators
Some new maps are just classic generator tweaked with some post generation filters. However other new maps try to offer a similar balance to classic one with different configurations for some chunks of terrain. I have also increased minimun keep separation to some of them (usually joined to caves at higher altitude). Addtion of new generators try to rebalance campaign in a soft way, trying to soft chances of extreme starting positions for players, and redefining how terraing profit each faction.

Help

- Players have a right-click option to remember them pairs of recruit list.

- Added WoCopedia: Rightclick option to consulte information and advises about campaigns mechanics and special stuff.

- Added special_overlay option. Players can right-click over their units to give/remove an overlay an help them to keep visual track of very trained units.

-Added rightclick option to preset advancement on units with multiple advance paths. (Can be disabled if you want to play with other 'preset advancement' mods of you like them more.)

-Added rightclick option to consulte description of items on ground.

-Supported change team color when creating new game

Redefined difficulty levels

Nightmare
- Enemy power 9
- Players starting heroes 1
- Experiency penalty 50%
- Enemies trained: 7
- Scenario extra gold: 0
Grand Marshal
- Enemy power 9
- Players starting heroes 2
- Experiency penalty 46%
- Enemies trained: 6
- Scenario extra gold: 1
General
- Enemy power 8
- Players starting heroes 2
- Experiency penalty 42%
- Enemies trained: 5
- Scenario extra gold: 2
Lieutenant
- Enemy power 8
- Players starting heroes 2
- Experiency penalty 38%
- Enemies trained: 4
- Players start with 1 bonus random training
- Scenario extra gold: 5
Sergeant
- Enemy power 7
- Players starting heroes 2
- Experiency penalty 32%
- Enemies trained: 3
- Players start with 1 bonus random training
- Scenario extra gold: 7
Peasant
- Enemy power 6
- Players starting heroes 2
- Experiency penalty 25%
- Enemies trained: 2
- Players start with 1 bonus random training
- Scenario extra gold: 10

(enemy power is used as factor for enemy extra gold to starting 300 amount, and also for number of recalls at maps 3,4,5)
(players extra gold is multiplied by 2,4 for 2,1 players mods)

Versions for 2 and 1 players

Currently they have less test and balance is more rusty than 3p version.
WC Natasiel formula to adapt AI gold is still used.
There are no empty castles, right amount is generated for each mod.
Map´s surfaces are reduced in function of total sides (aka castles generated).
Village ratio reduced to balance enemy income (have into account surface reduction). A single player will have same bonus from early finish in any mode.
Extra changes to adapt WC II for less players:
WC II 2p
- Players start each map with +25 gold
- Enemy castles reduced in 1 hex
- Turn limit is increased in 1*scenario_level

WC II 1p
- Player starts each map with +75 gold
- Player starts campaign with 1 extra helper hero
- Enemy castles reduced in 2 hexes
- Turn limit is increased in 2*scenario_level

Scenario changes

Gameplay:
- Sligty reduced AI gold in maps 2 and 3.

- Improved AI recalls amount at map 6 .

- Redefined AI recalls list to add more unit-type. Improved randomization and variation of recruits lists.

- Enemy types now are random and not related to players factions.
Picked random enemy leaders type are deleted from list to no repeat unit-type/recuit-list during campaign.
Each default faction is copied 4 times in a random pull. Get a race as enemy decreases future chances until get it four times, where chance becomes zero. (Note that this not applied to allies, wich are pure random)

- Limited random bonus to 3 for map and none for map6. Maps where they becomed reduced give an AI recruit a random item and experience it. Item will be droped and available for be picked by players after kill enemy unit. items for AI per map:0,1,1,2,6
Enemy recruit with item gets 25 xp for scenario level (aka enemies number). Also gets 3 extra hp for scenario level if item is "Ghoul's blood".
Campaign wont generate twice same item from a bonus point and wont give twice same item to a enemy unit.

- Enemy bosses get trainings level 1 (applied also to recalls). Number of bosses trained per map:0,0,1,2,6 (they get random trainings among Melee, Ranger, Health and Movement).

- Enemy helpers are now commanders (they can promote) and level 2 units after map 4.
Each enemy faction has now different helper unit types (they had only one in Nat version).

- Reduced enemy leaders movement to 0 and removed passive behavior. They now get trait "heroic"

There is a "decorative event" with slight gameplay effect: Themed Enemies
On some scenarios there is a low chance of a boss of a perdefined race becomed themed. Good news for players are that his castle type will be changed and they can know his race under fog. Bad news is that Boss will start with an extra "heroic pet" (lvl1 hero unit).

Themed Enemy:

Map........... Race.................Chance
2-Springs........Undead.............12%
2-Glaciers.......Elf....................12%
3-Savannah..Orc,Troll,Wolf.......8%
3-Jungle.........Drake,Lizard.......8%
3-Sulfurous...Drake,Lizard.......2%
4-Volcanic........Dwarf...............5%
4-Wicked..Undead,Elf,Orc,Troll,Wolf,Dwarf,Outlaw..1%
6-Feudal..Undead,Elf,Orc,Troll,Wolf,Dwarf,Outlaw,Drake,Lizard..1%

Race.................Castle......................Pet
Undead.............human snowed.......Soulless
Elf....................elvish..................Wolf
Orc,Troll,Wolf.......orcish..................Giant Scorpion
Drake,Lizard.......dessert................Fire Element
Dwarf...............darvish................Giant Mudcrawler
Outlaw..............encampment..........Young Ogre

Flavor:
- Redefined bonus points names system (added a lot more) and used a "kill my eyes" color for labels. Added new images for bonus points with redefined rules. Allowed new terrains.
Slighty increased radius separation from keeps and other bonus points.

- Items now will display cleary game effect in menu and messages.
Added sounds and animations to pick up items.

- Improved found hero dialogues (some alternative replies)

- Added a lot-more variated terrain decoration. It combines randomess with themes for each map. Didnt check the exact count, but about 98% of all possible terrains are now used along campaign.

- Added decorative destruction on units death.

- Added soundsource to Volcanos and Whirpools (they can randomly sound while they are on screen).

- Unded enemy leaders get name

Bugs from Natasiel WC fixed:

- Winged staff now wont reduce unit defense if above 50 on any terrain.
- Bonus points junky code fixed, storing empty slots as 1,1 coordenates was dirty and had some minor bugs.
- Spearman heroe now wont get goblin spearman heroe traits by mistake.
- No more "male_name=..." wrong value in bonus names.
- Halo and aligment item changes now remain after unit levels.
- Units picking Tome of secrets (halves xp) will now level if experience above max_experience.
- Units with heals+4 picking Medicinal herbs will now display correctly "heals+8".
- Necrophage and Ghast can not now gain double feeding.
- Weapon specials are now not listed more than once in unit info.
- Heroes wont spawn on impassible terrain anymore.
- Winged staff wont become feral trait wrong
- Adamant armor have now expected behavior after unit levels (was working bad for lieche)
- Fixed units in recall list slowed status not removed
- Fixed a very hard to detect bug due to little effect: bonus points was using last map coordenates as radius separation

# Not really bugs bug fixed anyway:
- AI wont have now same side_color than any player when changed default ones
- Map generation wont expand recruit anymore
- Map noise now cover all surface at last map
- Removed saurian as possible orc enemy leader.
- Gold carryover info wont be displayed after any map.

Resources optimization

Classic World Conquest used a macro to write all campaign events in every scenario. This mean for user that every time he opens BfW multiplayer, World Wonquest events were written into user computer memory as many times as alternative scenarios had campaign. WC II solves this by using [load_resource].

Info:

changelog:

(reduced to last versions)
0.6.8
- Redefined Trust pairs (intended as little nerf)
- Added Chocobone to enemy recalls
- Removed Young Ogre from pickable from lists without orcs
- Removed as pickables leaders mages not available as random for Militia and Gang
- Tweaked Dark, Melee, Ranger and Experience trainings
- Now enemy undead units get benefict from item Melange (they consumed it while alive)
- Tweaked how scale enemy recalls at scenarios 4,5 with enemy_power (now is more difficult for players at easier levels)
- Scaled enemy commander xp bonus with unit level
- Redefined roads and rivers near castles in Maritime generator
- Fixed calling Alien Eras modification with wrong id
- Fixed not fog update for hero found
- Added explanation of carryover to WoCopedia. Improved bonus points names generation
- Fixed custom feeding description not matching mainline one. Fixed drains special could be displayed twice on a unit.
- "Terrific disguise" becomes "Terror disguise", "Winged Staff" becomes "Winged scepter"
- Fixed version warnings not aimed to host.

0.6.7
- Removed Mages as random leaders for Militia
- Small buffs to enemy at scenario4: 1 commander upgraded to level2 and +1 supply village
- Small buffs to enemy at last scenario: 2 commander upgraded to level3 and +2 supply villages
- Supply village for enemy gives leader trait "expert" (it doesnt give +70 gold, just normal income and upkeep)
- Small nerf to enemy recalls at 1p-2p modes to absorb buffs on comanders aimed for 3p
- Added xp scenario based bonus to hero found
- Scaled early finish gold bonus (before percentage) with number of players
- Removed resistence bonus from item Ring of Power and added disengage weapon special
- Removed secondary effect for flying units from item Winged Staff
- Tweaked all trainings
- Scaled army discipline bonus chance with scenario
- Thug hero gets "resilent" as extra trait instead "fearless" and Young Ogre "epic" instead "expert"
- Scaled enemy items at last map with difficulty
- Simplified/tweaked several junky map generation rutines
- Tweaked faction images
- Fixed bug: heals +8 training not working over heals +4 units
- Fixed some translation notes shown and lacking commander overlay for observers
- Disabled ruiened wood birdge destrucción for lacking good image and transition
- Shorted scenario name to ease savefiles management

0.6.6
- Redefined the Guild: Now can spam Dark Adept and Ghoul becomes paired with Elvish Shaman
- Added as leaders: Troll Hero and Lieutenant for The Hand, Troll Hero for The Gang and The Horde
- Tweaked Ranger, Movement and Experience Trainings
- Added Troll Hero and Great Troll to enemy orc recalls. Added Troll Hero to comanders
- Changed The Horde faction image
- Fixed bug: full movement on recruit was giving 1 MP less when assigned on recruit before +22% moves

0.6.5.1
- Added as leaders: Orcish Ruler for The Gang and The Horde, Elvish Lord for The Guild
- Rescaled bonus gold and enemies trained with difficulty level
- Fixed bug: possible OOS in carryover using non-integer values inside [gold]
- Fixed bug: possible castle expanding recruit in map3 Savannah
- Fixed bug: 2 filters chosing some wrong bonus-point-images on a few maps
- Fixed bug: yard generated at 0,0 sometimes at map2 Paradise

0.6.5
(Not compatible with previous versions)
- Developed new alternative map4 (Wild)
- Swaped Arif and khaiyal as desesters for Guild and Hand. Swaped Hakim and Jundi as desesters for Gang and Militia. Added Dwarvish Scout to Knalgans pickables heroes
- Tewaked trainings beneficts. Changes training order to extend +10% health profit to all redudancy consolation +1HP bonus
- Enemy pets get trait "expert". Some tweaks/fixes to enemy recall lists
- Legendary Goblin Pillager gets leadership (to be consistent with Rouser path)
- Harcoded suffle players starting position, to fix [generator] pattern
- Fixed bug: impassible terrain could become invest item impossible to pick
- Fixed bug: enemy castle expansion on map1 called after map repaint could expand recruit. Several minor changes to some generations
- Fixed glitch: optional charge duplicating attacks after unit AMLA
- Fixed typo: gold amount not displayed in expensive recall warning message
- Changed item "Winter Bloom" resistance bonus to "up to 20" (it was "+50"), removed movement and defense bonus.
- The Key now gives teleport animation
- Improved decorative destruction (fences, rotten bridges)
- Several code fixes to alievate save files size (still a lot to do in BfW 1.14)
- Used image for invest training from mainline and removed custom one, as is the same from BfW 1.12.4
- Disabled [allow_undo] in 2p/3p modes due to OOS in bfW 1.12
- fixed [insert_tag] creating empty [if] to avoid bug in BfW 1.13

0.6.4.4
- Fixed bug in generating starting positions for alien eras in 2p-1p modes due to key terrain_liked=

0.6.4.3
- Developed new alternative final map (Feudal)
- Increased forest amount on map3 Delta wich becomed too low after generation redesign

0.6.4.2
- "legendary" is renamed as "epic". Walking Corpse and Goblin Spearman heroes get new "legendary" trait (enables special advances to Chocobone and Goblin Pillager)
- Enemy leaders get trait "heroic"
- Fixed glitch: unit taking only 1 item when 2 items placed on same map spot
- Fixed typo in BfW version warning
- WC II version becomes a variable to be consistent with code stored in savegame

0.6.4.1
- Fixed bug:Northerens bonus heroes was added twice and loyalist none to point list (responsable of 2 goblins heroes on bonus list)
- Redefined data structure relationship between campaign and era (ease adapt other eras)
- Removed unneccesary hack for recall store due to behavior changed in BfW 1.12
- Rewritten/redefined junky generator-postgeneration for map3 Delta
- Tweaked map3 Wetland postgeneration with extra obstacles in zones lacking them
- Eliminated all players amount reference in postgenerations and made them consistent with any map size. Eliminated chance of generation expanding recruit for all maps.
- Fixed bug: enemy with feeding item not getting scenario-based hp buff (made it also scale with enemy power)
- Improved chances of melee recalls for enemy Elf
- Added version warning urging to upgrade to 1.12.2 or later

0.6.4
- Redefined The Scourge: Ghost paired with Skirmisher and Guilder-Bat (trades better scouting for less use of specialists)
- Redefined The Guild: Can spam Elf Fighter and Ghoul. Reduced random leaders to shamans, mages, dark adepts, and necrophages
- Removed White Mage as random leader for The Gang (intended as neutral/flavor change; too many chances of white mages and few of orc leaders among other factions)
- Army discipline bonus nerfed to 3%
- small tweak to Ranger Tactics training
- Fixed bug: recruit list not consistent for different eras after scenario transition
- Small tweaks to generators Wicked adn Provinces
- Fixed custom forest terrain code (small "bugs" with no gameplay effect)
- Improved themed enemy: added outlaw to maps Wetland and Wicked
- Added saurians and outlaws to enemy commander types
- Each enemy faction will not get commanders of repeated faction along campaign
- Added 2 new alternative supply village images, added 3 bonus point images
- Improved pickup bonus point image syncro. Revised and added bonus names.
- Fixed Classic WC junky code of store empty points as (1,1). Rewroten some code for ease reading
- Added debug config option to end scenario

0.6.3.3
- Developed new alternative map4 (Wicked)
- Enemy xp bonus (to commanders and units with item) now scales with enemy_power
- Fixed wrong number of iterations (swaped numbers) in scenario4 for 1p and 2p modes.

0.6.3.2
- Fixed bug introduced in 0.6.3.1 giving error to players joining a new game (wrong key use inside [scenario] was cause)
- Added old tropical forests to custom terrain (to enhance some maps decoration)
- Changed bonus labels font to Lucida Sans Unicode for ease reading (I couldnt read well "l","i","n","r" with default font. I accept better ideas...)
- Some postgeneration code optimized (roads iteration)

0.6.3.1
- Developed new alternative map3 (Wetland)

0.6.3
- Developed new alternative map3 (Coral)
- Small adjust to experiency penalty scaling with difficulty
- Forbidden enemy castle expansion on water and villages
- Simplified plot at fork 3 and now correctly shows all enemy leaders in scenario 4 (plot text is provisional anyway)
- Redefined some postgeneration rutines as events
- Reduced resources consumed loading scenario events from variables
- [modification] loads now events in every scenario, removed reload them

0.6.2.2
- Fixed bug in Training buff "full movement on turn recruited or recalled".

0.6.2.1
- The Horde can now spam Skirmisher and Naga

0.6.2
- Buffed The Gang (now can spam Grunt, Assasin, Elvish Archer and Wose)
- Small Buff to The Hand (now can spam Young Ogre and Heavy Infantryman)
- Small Buff to Dark Training
- Developed new alternative map2 (Clayey)
- Chose Difficulty menu is fired now at start (instead at first recruit). This set experency penalty correctly for all units.
- Changed Young Ogre for Khalifate hero as Deserter for 6 factions

0.6.1.7
- Enemy nerfed at last map (-2 level3 recalls)
- Decoration fix to map6 Industrial (roads)
- Fixed training names in WoCopedia showed all as Melee

0.6.1.6
- Developed new alternative final map (Industrial)
- Fixed support for change side color not working well for less than 3 players
- Map4 Podzol tweaked with some extra rough terrain

0.6.1.5
- Fixed bug making players leaders not affected by experience penalty (introduced in 0.6.1)

0.6.1.4
- Nerfed enemy at last map (-2 commanders)

0.6.1.3
- Nerfed enemy at last map (-1 training and -2 level3 recalls)

0.6.1.2
- Nerfed enemy at last map (-1 magic item and -1 training)
- Fixed wrong "Dwarvish Ulfserker" as enemy recall instead "Dwarvish Berserker"
- Code reorganization for enemy configuration.
- Redefined as events some macros to alleviate disguised code bloat

0.6.1.1
- Fixed typo making scenario 4 one enemy side become broken in some difficulties for 2 players
- Enemy recalls at map 3 now scales with enemy power
- The Cult can now spam Vampire Bat and Cavalryman
- Duplicated orcs random leaders and removed Elder Wose for The Gang

0.6.1
- Redefined The Guild: Ghoul is now paired with Elvish Fighter and Skeleton with Wose.
- Duplicated Dark Sorcerer and Necrophage as random leaders for Guild and Cult. Removed Elder Wose for Guild.
- Disabled The Empire as random faction (added config option to enable it)
- Experiency penalty now scales with difficulty
- Improved movement training lvl2. Move on recruit buff now allows also attack.

Translations: Full translations wont start until campaign is fully developed (ant all strings revised).
All mainline strings are translated, but due to Wesnoth is unable to manage well them in multiplayer, they are disabled by default. To activate translation is neccesary edit config.cfg file inside add on and set them to "yes"

Compatibility: Addon can be played without have add on installed. Only drawback is few custom images will be replaced for "ok but not so good" (or just reduced variety) mainline images; custom sound "female unit pick up terrific disguise" will be missed.

Era is compatible with other scenarios, but can have different outcomes for sides Intended for AI. Depending how side recruit is coded in each scenario, can give: usual recruit, a WC II faction as recruit or empty recruit (hopefully this last case should be very rare).

If some era would need just minor changes in order to "work" with add on, let me know and I would try fix it.
In versions prior to 0.6.4.1 compatibility was often broken by development changes. From 0.6.4.1 user should not expect problems by upgrading, and code will warn user if neccessary (compatibility broken at 0.6.5)

Configuration: Add on has a config.cfg file to allow enable translations, allow any era, or enable The Empire as random faction. It has also a modification that can be activated from create game screen, to enable extra terrain-graphics effects. These options can have some drawbacks in compatibility, explained in file.

If you want use WC II "era engine" to create new factions here is a brief guide to faction creation

Bugs:
Using planing mode with recruits will fail, as planning doesnt detect recruit replace.
Use shuffle sides on 2p mode is bugged due to empty hidden sides.

Reported BfW engine bugs that affect WC II campaign:
BfW will crash if generator fails creating castles. This probably wont ever happen, just letting you know a crash loading a new scenario could be caused by that (please report it to me if happens)
There is a graphic bug that make flags beign displayed behind "supply villages" image.
Undo is disabled after use menu items in 2p/3p mode to avoid OOS due to bug in BfW 1.12
It is urged upgrade to BfW 1.12.4 Previous versions had severe security, reload, OOS and observers bugs
There are not other bugs currently confirmed for BfW 1.12.4
In case of get OOS, universal way to solve them is an inmediate save-reload (prefered done by host).


Combination of items and trait effects can be a conffusing issue, so here is a try to explain it:
(All explanation inside spoiler can be resumed as: "Effects modify what they see. they only see unit basic stats and effects attached before them.")

Order of unit modifications:

In WC there are 2 main unit modifications: traits and magic items. From WML point of view they are the same thing, and will be always applied over unit normal stats in order they were attached. As traits use to be first ones in being attached, a unit gaining a new attack from a trident of storms wont be benefied for be dextrous or be trained in ranged combat. However, an skirmisher picking poison at lvl1, will gain also extra damage and poison special for ranged attack at lvl2. If skirmisher takes first holy water, he wont gain poison for melee picking it later, but will still gain it for ranged when level.

Other example of "undesire" behavior would be that picking Winter´s bloom (+20 hp) wont stack with training health benefict +10%, as trait was applied before. health training will stack with resilent and strong, as they were applied before.
Also note that I defined training effects so percentage bonus are attached later, to be stacked with the stright ones

As final example, a ghould picking Staff of radiance, ring of power and Holy water will have enhanced by ring only staff ranged attack. However, a ghoul picking Holy water, Ring of power and Staff of radiance will have enhanced by ring only the melee attack.

In "normal" Wesnoth, it is possible have 2 units of same type, resilent and quick, with different amount of hp due to traits order.

The exception to this rule are triggered modifications. I can only think about two:
- legendary trait. Its effect of set xp at 60 to amla, is triggered every time he levels, so wont benefict from Tome of secrets once he levels .
- Melange: It checks unit status only when picked, so a Dark Adept will be still buffed when he becomes Liche or if he picks Bezoar later (but dont pick Melange after Bezoar, as talisman will protect unit from be intoxicated with the drug )

As side note, I hacked Herald armor and Terrific disguise, so illuminates and darkness get removed when gaining the other one. A white mage with Terrific disguise wont have illuminates when leveling

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[tekelili]

--EDITED--- (info for last version developed in BfW 1.11)
World Conquest II explained to newcomers

World Conques II is placed in a difuse border between a campaign and a multiplayer survival. If you are looking for an interesting history with well designed characters and bright speechs, then World Conquest II is not your campaign. Its main attractive is challenge, replayability and balance. (In my personal and parcial opinion, WC II offers the ultimate experencie as Army Commmander fighting vs AI: You face unexpected enverioments and circunstances, and you must do lot of tactical and strategic deccisions to get the best of them )
As it was origanilly designed as a 3 players campaign, it gets full flavor at that mode, and 2p/1p modes are adaptations that have some lacks in gameplay, but offer a similar challenge.

Replayability: World Conquest feature a bright random map generator designed by TL. Players will face very different strategic/tactical decissions every game and every map due to different terrain configurations and enemy/allies distributions. Scenarios beyond 1st one have several alternative maps that are chosen randomly, and each map has different decoration filters for terrain. Players have up to 10 different factions to play campaign and enemies factions will be also random. In addition, invest options and bonus gotten at special points will also vary from game to game.

Balance: Classic World Conquest achieved a succesfull design to get hooked lot of players that replayed campaign tens (if no houndreds) of times. Given its lack of plot, being multiplayer, battles´scale and big difficulty, most of players attracted had an average/high skill level. This allowed to stack an incredible amount of valuable playtesting/feedback among years. Its mechanics are polished by a constant learning from every spoil players were able to imagine. I really doubt any campaign has been played or observed games, for its designer, so many times as I did for WC II.

Challenge: I am a quite skilled player with high rating in ladder 1v1 and good results in 2v2 tournaments (sorry for lack of humilty, I thought was relevant information ). I loved classic World Conquest and my main task was tune its difficulty to allow AI beat me (and 2 mates of similar skill) about 50% of times in Nightmare difficulty. I also did a great effort in redefine lower difficulty levels to just give more room players mistakes instead weak AI to a not challenging level. In other words, every player can find the right level of difficulty for his skill level to have a nice challenge. (completly begginers to Wesnoth will find this campaign probably too difficult and its mechanics too complex, so it is not recomended for them). Please, consulte "Warning about difficulty!:" spoiler in 1st post. (Note: WC is designed around replayability and difficulty is designed in asumption players will start a new campaign if they become defeated and save/reload is not used to cheat randomess. A single scenario can sometimes look not very challenge, but challenge is beat campaign.)

All my credit to TL for a campaign design created while "being blessed by Gods". I am only responsable for final tweaks applied after what he couldn´t have when created it: Lot of testing years and new mainline graphics. (Also some credit for more variated generator development):)

GAMEPLAY:
Campaign has 5 scenarios with medium/big scale battles.
All scenarios have same victory/defeat conditions. Players must kill all enemy leaders without lose any leader. WC II has also some special heroes (commanders) that will promote to leader upon boss death, preventing lose.
Each new scenario, players get 2 bonus to invest. Invest menu is called when each player recruit or recall a unit for first time. There are 4 possible bonus invest options: Hero, Magic Item, Training, Supplies. Every scenario will have some special points that will give a random bonus (hero, item or training) once a player unit step on them.

Bonus:

- Hero: A loyal unit with powerfull traits and autorecalled by free every scenario. You will have 3 options in invest menu.

1. Commander. Promotes to leader upon leader death, will be a random units of the default factions your WC II faction is composed.
2. Pickable. Player can pick heroes from a list having absolute control over wich unit type he will be.
3. Desserter. A random hero and player gains 15 gold for that scenario. Desserters are from default factions not present in Commanders or Pickables.

- Magic item. They have no owner unitl a player unit step on them, in that moment item is automaticly picked and will be lost upon unit death. Units holding a magic item have free upkeep.
- Training. Every time you recruit a unit, your traings (at current level) will be applied. This usally means "roll a dice" for every buff chance. If a unit gains any traing benefict, you can see them hover mouse on trait "trained". Players can invest among 5 trainings.

1. Melee Combat
2. Ranger Tactics
3. Health
4. Movement
5. Combat Experience

In bonus points, they can also find Dark Training.
-Supplies. Player gain 70 gold to play current scenario and his keep become also a village.

Enemies will have some times commanders, trainings or units holding a magic item (more as greater scenario level). Once is killed an enemy holding a magic item, it will be droped an available to be picked by players.

Scenarios:

Scenario....Generators/decoration.......................Enemy leaders....Commaders*....Items......Trainings
1.........Start..........................................................1.................1..............0..............0
2.........Springs,Glaciers,Lakes,Provinces,Paradise,Clayey.....2.................0..............1..............0
3.........Savannah,Wreck,Delta,Sulfurous,Coral,Wetland.......3.................1..............1..............0-1
4.........Thermal,Volcanic,Mines,Podzol,Wicked,Wild...........4.................2..............2..............0-2
5.........Rural,Maritime,Industrial,Feudal.........................6.................6..............3-5............2-4

*enemy commanders give extra recruits to leader list

To offer balanced factions, World Conquest II features a custom era based in rebuild/remix default era. It has also a tweaked recall cost rule. (Era features a special recruit system, be sure to check help option to know your faction).

World Conquest II has a tweaked carryover system, but beside complicated minor factors it is pretty much a classic carryover of 15% (so it worth finish early and save gold, but it is not a capital factor to succeed).

World Conquest II features a quite complete help system with right-cilck options:
- Info about recruit system.
- Wocopedia that list all WC II special mechanics and stuff.
- Option to preset units advancements.
- Overlay to visually detect special units.
- Option to inspect items "on ground".
- Supported change team color when creating new game. (Automatic, do not need action)

Check last part of 1st post ("Info") for extra details.

[Rigor]

schedule a time here when its most likely to play a game: monday-sunday 18-22h or something should suffice. so we also knwo whos interested

[tekelili]

Ty a lot Rigor, unluckyly I am not often awake at your time lately. The good point is I am employing that time in test and depure bugs heavyly (I think Version 0.3.9 should be finally a "stable" one). If I can get to server at normal hours, I will look for you

Edit: 0.3.9 are not still stable, see post 1.

[MRDNRA]

Although I would by no means consider myself a World Conquest expert, it certainly looks like an interesting variation on standard World Conquest and I look forward to seeing your ideas come to fruition. Should make for a very good challenge!

[tekelili]

I have learned that I cant fix all bugs while I am creating new ones with updated versions. From version 0.3.9.3 I freeze temporaly new features addition. It has right now a decent set of features developed with comfortable menus, so I will update add on only to fix bugs. When finally a whole campaingn game can be played without mayor issues, I will update to 0.4 and then test new experimental features.

@MRDNRA: Thanks a lot, some feedback/bug report, would be very helpfull

[MRDNRA]

I've found a couple of bugs today (although one of them may have been fixed by a subsequent update between the games I've done):

The Sylphs Bow item and the Hammer of the Wose item both do not currently appear to do anything. (Sylphs Bow bug found earlier on today in early game, Hammer of the Wose bug just found having already updated. I presume they are meant to add new attacks to units?)

[tekelili]

Version 0.4 on add on server. On our last test game (currently saved at map 3) I was attacked by a lvl2 cav equiped with storm trident. I could save the day thanks to pick "stock up supplies".

@MRDNRA: Thnks for report. But yea, bug was only messages and was fixed time ago.

[MRDNRA]

Hmm, I upgraded to 0.4.0.6, and the Hammer of the Wose is still just showing text and not giving anything when I pick it up. If it helps, I'm using Wesnoth 1.10.7.

[tekelili]

@MRDNRA: Did you take "The Hammer of the Wose" with a unit with a melee impact attact? That item has only effect on such units (it gives them +1 strike). Pick it with other units has no effect, as pick poison with no pierce/blade unit. In my test games my friends picked twice this item and worked for them.

[MRDNRA]

@MRDNRA: Did you take "The Hammer of the Wose" with a unit with a melee impact attact? That item has only effect on such units (it gives them +1 strike). Pick it with other units has no effect, as pick poison with no pierce/blade unit. In my test games my friends picked twice this item and worked for them.

Ah I hadn't thought of that! I guess that's going to be the same for the Sylph Bow too, to give to archers?

[Paulomat4]

hey, i'm quite enjoying this. minor bug I found:
one of the name of the points is always like this: male_names=Bai'ais point

[tekelili]

hey, i'm quite enjoying this. minor bug I found:
one of the name of the points is always like this: male_names=Bai'ais point

Thanks a lot, will try fix that bug.

In version 0.4.1 I have introduced wich should be my last experiment: Modified Recall cost
I am aware this can be very disruptive, so it is very likely test modify it or even become removed. However I want give a chance to those poor grunts to get recalled.
As I am more interested in test, this feature isn´t very well developed. When units are recalled, they will have a floating text "+5 gold" to show amount refund after recall. I say refound and no discount because this is what is currently happening, so it is not possible recall a unit when you have less than 20 gold. it is a very poor design, but hopefully provisional

Units wich cost is less than 17 gold, can be recalled by their cost + 3 gold

[Paulomat4]

hey, still playing it. (this time alone) Is there an actual end to it? I suppose no....
For the first time after wanting a new commander at the beginning, this happened:

[tekelili]

@Paulomat4: The campaign ends after map 6. That bug when picking a commander looks an old one already solved (but I cant be sure). Update to new version of add on, and please report me if that bug happens again after update.