The Soul's Order.

[Devotation]

Do you want to find out which new evils come to wesnoth?
Do you want to know what this new foe can do?

Then download the Faction "The Soul's Order" on the 1.13.x addon server.


Ahem...

I created a faction which requires feedback and balancing.
You are invited to critisize, make suggestions and give feedback.

Currently I do not recommend letting an AI play the new faction unless you are very patient,

Thank you in advance.

[Atreides]

Pretty interesting faction. Stunningly fragile when "unstable". I'm not sure a single unit with that trait managed to survive a battle. Might be interesting to try again and keep them in reserve. Tanks they're not.

Most effective I found was the level 0 soul construct. Good damage, low xp to level, I managed to advance a lot of them, although I had only enough income to buy them so they were numerous anyways. The healer advancement made most sense for the stable trait as it got the most hp. Unusual attack the overcharge... the more damage you do the more you take. Quite often it could one hit kill an enemy but also end up with 1 hp (can't die from the backlash damage). The other 2 advancements were also worthwhile when I decided to try them. The leader was quite good even with 15% bonus only. The Rift unit was very good as it allows porting in hordes of soul constructs as well as others.

As a faction of mages it is not a surprise that they're glass cannons. It worked well on Morituri with 3 allies but if forced to fight by themselves I wonder what will happen. We shall see.

[Atreides]

Ported to 1.16. Fixed up a few texts to read better. Changed the eras to use a regular random instead of excluding the Soul Order as a choice. It was doing that without giving notice. It is true that the AI side is slower when leading teleporting units but I don't think it's all that bad. If you have a slow PC though you have been warned. Stick to small maps!

The faction is really interesting. It might be a bit weaker than the mainlines so that's a nice challenge. :-) I suspect though it may be just a matter of unlocking the right way to play them.

Anyways, a very cool faction with fascinating traits, abilities and really good artwork.

[IPS]

Just viewed a bit the faction concept and in terms of sprites it's really interesting visually.

Odd thing is that lost hope has much better ressistances than their lv2 and lv3 , which seems it was not intentional by original author.

Talking about attack types, I saw they have blade, impact, cold and arcane. Oddly it's very difficult to balance a faction againist default without pierce attack as for example loy calvary is ressistant to all units in here.

Cannot judge about faction as I only viewed at https://units.wesnoth.org/1.16/Soul_Ord ... efolk.html , but they seems to be low in HP and for some reason some units having real insane damage values. There is also a tons of special I do not know. Not sure if keeping author's original balance is viable, but this has potential for a redesign considering how well done are these sprites.

I think you should consider a at making an era out of poritng lots of abandoned old eras in wesnoth servers, it could be an interesting project