Era of Second Chances Feedback Thread

[fmac81]

Hi all,
I recently did a huge update to the Era of Second Chances, which I originally published a long time ago, but this is the posthumous feedback thread for it . EoSC is available for both 1.12 and 1.13 add-on servers!
Note: I have an in-depth contributor list included in the add-on files, so I'll spare you the heavy details, but here is the latest changelog:

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version 1.1.0 (latest)
*cleaned up some coding in the _main.cfg file - Era should no longer produce a litany of error log warnings due to define tags mistakenly used twice. Thanks to Pentarctagon for the assistance!
*added some contributors to the credits

version 1.0
*uploaded to add-on server (1.13)
*removed Elves and Goblins units from factions
*Added in Green Ogre tier
*Various adjustments for unit costs and damage output related to the Ogre faction
*Added a bow variation for the Wesfolk Outcast line that can be enabled for recruitment through the included modification

EoSC was actually uploaded to 1.12 almost 3 years ago, but I had misplaced my initial server pbl file until an admin helped me out. If you previously downloaded it (way back when), check for updates, as this one fixes a TON of errors, and really cleans up a lot of loose ends with unit coding and faction layouts. This era is essentially a second chance for some of my UMC units to be utilized by other Wesnoth players. The majority of units were going to be included in campaigns that were never finished. It remains slightly unbalanced, with 5 factions: Ogres, Outlaws, Humans, Undead and Orcs

Faction Overviews
Ogres

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An entirely UMC faction by yours truly except the mainline young and ogre units, this one was fun to make! Ogres generally have large hitpoint pools but poor movement. They are paired with fast and fleet-footed Wolves, and this faction excels at impact, blade and cold damage. They do have a mage line (unit images borrowed from Tales of the Setting sun "Green Ogres" but new animations), but their main weakness is probably pierce damage.

One of the Wolf units has a base attack of 5 - 4 piercing claws , but is a chaotic unit, so has the usual decrease during the day. I included my level 3 Goblin Scorcher as a leader of the faction, but wolfriders are not on the recruitment list as it stands.

Most Ogres have the standard +20 pierce, +20 arcane, +20 blade resistance except for the mage tier. Wolves have +0% resistance and no vulnerabilities, except for a branch with nightstalk that has vulnerabilities to -20% fire, -20% arcane, -10% pierce, but +20% resistance for blade, impact and cold.

They also have their own unique set of traits granting additional abilities (download the add-on to find out more )

Special note: IF you are playing on 1.12, you will notice some of the Ogre traits, "benevolent" and "cruel" indicate they have damage alignments. This feature is available under [effect] only in the 1.13 branch, so it is just a damage increase per level placeholder on 1.12.

Outlaws

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This faction also includes a hefty amount of UMC. Outlaws have some of the base units normally in the Knalgan recruit list, but additionally have a Rogue Cavalryman line, a bow variation for the Wesfolk Outcast tier from HttT, my personal favorite, "Darkfoot" line that gives a much needed blade unit, as well as the mainline-campaign-based Shadow Mage branch (still using old graphics as I was not a big fan of the new ones).
Weaknesses: no spear unit currently, relies a lot on Time of Day. Many of these units have elusive movement type, so will suffer against more hardy opponents.

Humans

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Not a whole lot of changes here. A new mage line, a new horseman tier that leads to Paladin. Javelineers finally have an advancement.

Orcs

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Not a whole lot of changes here either. Trolls have a level 1 shaman now ("Troll Mystic") which I made based on a unit included in 1.10's Era of Two Suns.
Goblin Pillagers can advance to Goblin Scorcher.

Undead

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Just a single addition of a UMC skeleton knight who fell off of his horse . Also added a King Wraith unit which was going to be in a campaign I ran out of steam with after 11 scenarios. The King Wraith may need some hitpoint adjustments in the future as it is pretty high (48) for a unit with spirit resistance.

[The_Gnat]

Nice i really like your era! Perhaps would you consider adding the nightblade as an advancement of the orcish slayer?

[fmac81]

Sorry I didn't see your reply until now, I forgot to turn on email notifications for this thread.
I'm glad you like it! To answer your question, I hadn't really been planning on adding much UMC from other Wesnoth players to this era, as it originally (and still largely) consists of just my own. In light of that, I most likely will not add the Orcish Nightblade as an advancement .

However, I am in the midst of finalizing another era (Era of Unique Traits), which will be a conglomeration of UMC units and my own, and the Nightblade tier will probably make an appearance. The upcoming era has more units and is built around some of the fun traits that appear for Ogres in EoSC as well as a few new ones, so keep a look out on the add on servers!

~ fmac81

[The_Gnat]

Great I will!

[Atreides]

I've ported this as 1.4.2 to 1.12/14/16 (I'll send 1.12 if requested).