Xalzar Quest (SP campaign for 1.14 BfW)

[Argesilao]

Hi everyone!

This is the reference topic for the single player campaign: Xalzar Quest

It's a short campaign with only four scenarios and only two level of difficulty (I becoming increasingly lazy);

It was made in windows but should also work in unix; need the 1.14 version of BfW; there's the italian translation too.

The campaign narrates the adventures that, after the destruction of Saurgrath by the elves, brought the surviving saurians to find a new home.

The campaign has some special features:
- A day of 12 periods
- The only enlisted unit during the entire campaign is the Juvenile Saurian, a level 0 unit.
- When a Juvenile Saurian goes up in level there are 2 out of 3 chances that it becomes a Saurian Skirmisher, and 1 in 3 chance that it becomes a Saurian Augur

every feedback is welcome; have fun!

[white_haired_uncle]

Generally, I like campaigns where you have a leader or two and a healer or two and, at least at first, you only can only recruit level 0. But not when they have next to zero chance to level up. I started playing this on normal, and it's just way too difficult for me.

Spoiler:

First scenario, the wolves simply tore through the juvies about as fast as I could recruit them. I need my leader to stay on the keep in the tiny castle, so he can't provide any leadership -- not that it would make much difference since the juvies do so little damage it'll take them a lot longer to get a kill than they can survive. Also with the large pack and having to stay on the castle I couldn't use terrain to my advantage. I thought about using my more powerful loyal units to seriously injure wolves so the juvies could get cheap kills, and I tried eventually, but I didn't want to get all my loyal units killed off in the first scenario by the large pack. I ended up levelling one augur and no juvies, but I made it through alive (and broke).

Second scenario I have no idea what to do. I started off thinking that I'd send some juvies out as fodder to get the ogres to split up and make a dash for the south, though I knew that would mean again not levelling any up. Then the elves showed up. Between the tough ogres and the lightning fast elf scouts surrounding my wose, the wose lasted a few turns, and I ended up cheat-killing 7 or 8 scouts just to keep Murblum alive.

Third scenario I met a troll who seemed to hit 100% of the time. Of course, being a L2 troll taking on L0 16HP units, one hit was generally enough for him to kill any unit I sent against him. Surprisingly, I did finally make it through the trolls. After sending out a few scouts, the elves showed up and I found the drakes and I lost interest and quit.

The unit description for the Spells Master says in the text that it cures, but according to the abilities it loses cure when promoted from Icecaster.

[Drizzt_DoUrden]

On the first scenario the wolves aren't loading, does it require a specific unit package? It doesn't say it does in the install page.

[Argesilao]

On the first scenario the wolves aren't loading, does it require a specific unit package? It doesn't say it does in the install page.

This is very strange;

Wolves are the same used in the mainline campaigns and coded in the folder data/core/units/monsters, and no special package is required to play this campaign.

Try to check if you have the wolves' cfg files in the directory.

[Konrad2]

The Departure

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<Lua Error>	game_error: unknown unit type: Dire Wolf
			stack traceback:
				[C]: in local 'cmd'
				lua/wml-utils.lua:145: in field 'handle_event_commands'
				lua/wml-flow.lua:6: in function <lua/wml-flow.lua:5>

And I don't see any wolves. (The mainline lvl 3 wolf is called 'Direwolf'. Not 'Dire Wolf'.)

And your Saurian Tribalist demands upkeep.

You might want to consider using sprites from 'Reign of the Lords' for your saurian heroes, because those look better. More in line with the look of the mainline saurians.

[Argesilao]

The Departure

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<Lua Error>	game_error: unknown unit type: Dire Wolf
			stack traceback:
				[C]: in local 'cmd'
				lua/wml-utils.lua:145: in field 'handle_event_commands'
				lua/wml-flow.lua:6: in function <lua/wml-flow.lua:5>

And I don't see any wolves. (The mainline lvl 3 wolf is called 'Direwolf'. Not 'Dire Wolf'.)

fixed

And your Saurian Tribalist demands upkeep.

Of course, he's a saurian, and all saurians are greedy
fixed

You might want to consider using sprites from 'Reign of the Lords' for your saurian heroes, because those look better. More in line with the look of the mainline saurians.

I saw those sprites, are very interesting; perhaps I'll use them for the sequel of this campaign.

thanks for the tips

[Konrad2]

A small problem:
Saurgath was destroyed in winter. (See LoW - Costly Revenge for reference.)

EDIT:
Units that start out as Juvenile Saurians can only go up to lvl 1. They are somehow in a loop and advance to same unit over and over after bevoming lvl 1.

EDIT 2:
female Ogre -> Female Ogre

Wose Shamans can't gain xp. They are missing a xp macro.

Crossing the River
Why are the Mudcrawlers allied with my enemies?

Also, why the heck would that wose start north of the river?

Your campaign is missing the unit 'Lesser Dragon', making it crash when a Dragonling advances.

EDIT 3:
Crossing the River
There is no music in this scenario.

How do you expect me to win this scenario?


And as white_haired_uncle pointed out, your lvl 3 healer loses 'cure' after advancing.

[Argesilao]

A small problem:
Saurgath was destroyed in winter. (See LoW - Costly Revenge for reference.)

Our heroes come back some month after.

Units that start out as Juvenile Saurians can only go up to lvl 1. They are somehow in a loop and advance to same unit over and over after bevoming lvl 1.

fixed

Wose Shamans can't gain xp. They are missing a xp macro.

fixed

Crossing the River
Why are the Mudcrawlers allied with my enemies?

Because they hate saurians? Or because they have an intellectual affinity with ogres?

Also, why the heck would that wose start north of the river?

I found them there, and they didn't want to move elsewhere!

Your campaign is missing the unit 'Lesser Dragon', making it crash when a Dragonling advances.

fixed

Crossing the River
There is no music in this scenario.

Ops! fixed the same problem in the scenarios 3 and 4 too.

How do you expect me to win this scenario?

Need balancement?

And as white_haired_uncle pointed out, your lvl 3 healer loses 'cure' after advancing.

That's because the level 4 unit have another cure ability.

bugs corrected in the 1.2.2 version

[Konrad2]

How do you expect me to win this scenario?

Need balancement?

Unless you have a strategy for me as to how to beat this, yes.

And as white_haired_uncle pointed out, your lvl 3 healer loses 'cure' after advancing.

That's because the level 4 unit have another cure ability.

bugs corrected in the 1.2.2 version

No, he only has +12 heal (which says that it does not cure) and extra regenerate (which is clearly not a cure ability).

EDIT:
Regarding 'Crossing the River', I restarted from S1 again (that fix for the Juvenile Saurians) and now I played it way better, giving me a way higher chance for the next scenario. I'll tell you how it went.

Btw,
piety -> pity
(but actually I'd suggest using the word 'kindness' instead)

EDIT 2:
I think you made some mistakes with the spawning points for the 'Lesser Fire Dragons' in Home Sweet Home.

EDIT 3:
Crossing the River seems to be doable if you managed to do well/okay in The Departure.

EDIT 4:
Up and Under
My leaders said that the elves are less than a day behind them (12 turns), but they didn't arrive yet even though it's already turn 13.
Is there any explanation as to why there are already Drakes? According to WoV (a new campaign for wesnoth mainline) they arrived after the Humans, but in the North, the Heart Mountains.

20%pierce -> 20% pierce

EDIT 5:

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<Invalid WML found> unknown conditional wml: [have_locations]

Happens when I defeat the drake leader. There is also a dialog that seems to be supposed to happen when I defeat him while he is over lava, even though I defeated him on a 'Flat' hex.

EDIT 6:

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Invalid WML found: unknown conditional wml: [have_locations]
20190328 20:57:56 error scripting/lua: game_error: unknown unit type: Kraken
stack traceback:
	[C]: in local 'cmd'
	lua/wml-utils.lua:145: in field 'handle_event_commands'
	lua/wml-flow.lua:6: in function <lua/wml-flow.lua:5>

After the drakes.

EDIT 7:
Murblum apparently doesn't have to move outside of the caves in 'Up and Under' despite what the scenario objectives said.

XQ-Up and Under Turn 35.gz

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[Argesilao]

All fixed.

(but actually I'd suggest using the word 'kindness' instead)

why do you think so?

[EarthCake]

Hello Argesilao, thanks for all campaigns, they are great.

I am too making my campaign, and I don't know how to post it on add-ons server. Can you help me? I would really appreciate that.

[Argesilao]

Hello Argesilao, thanks for all campaigns, they are great.

I am too making my campaign, and I don't know how to post it on add-ons server. Can you help me? I would really appreciate that.

first of all you have to create a file named server.pbl and put it in the campaign's folder.

you can create it using the same editor you are using to create the cfg files of your campaign

for example, this is the code of the server.pbl file of the campaign Xalzar Quest

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title="Xalzar Quest"
type="campaign"
icon="data:image/png;base64,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"
version="1.2.3"
author="Argesilao"
passphrase="password"
description="After the Saurgrath's destruction by the elves, a saurian named Xalzar leads what remains of his people in search of a new home.

(Single Player - Intermediate difficult - 4 scenarios)"
email="your email"
[feedback]
    topic_id=49194
[/feedback]

To know more about how to create the server.pbl file it's better if you go here: https://wiki.wesnoth.org/PBLWML

When the server.pbl file is ready, you have to go to the main page of the game, select add-ons and then connect;

Your campaign should appear in the list of available add-ons, with the writing, in green, ready to publish

now you have to select the shield in the left, the one with and arrow.

For more detailed information, it's better you look for the appropriate discussion in the forum, my english isn't adequate to give complicated explanations

[Konrad2]

(but actually I'd suggest using the word 'kindness' instead)

why do you think so?

If 'feels' more fitting to me.

[EarthCake]

Hello Argesilao, thanks for all campaigns, they are great.

I am too making my campaign, and I don't know how to post it on add-ons server. Can you help me? I would really appreciate that.

first of all you have to create a file named server.pbl and put it in the campaign's folder.

you can create it using the same editor you are using to create the cfg files of your campaign

for example, this is the code of the server.pbl file of the campaign Xalzar Quest

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title="Xalzar Quest"
type="campaign"
icon="data:image/png;base64,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"
version="1.2.3"
author="Argesilao"
passphrase="password"
description="After the Saurgrath's destruction by the elves, a saurian named Xalzar leads what remains of his people in search of a new home.

(Single Player - Intermediate difficult - 4 scenarios)"
email="your email"
[feedback]
    topic_id=49194
[/feedback]

To know more about how to create the server.pbl file it's better if you go here: https://wiki.wesnoth.org/PBLWML

When the server.pbl file is ready, you have to go to the main page of the game, select add-ons and then connect;

Your campaign should appear in the list of available add-ons, with the writing, in green, ready to publish

now you have to select the shield in the left, the one with and arrow.

For more detailed information, it's better you look for the appropriate discussion in the forum, my english isn't adequate to give complicated explanations

Thanks, I published it. Do those terms when publishing have some affect on me?

[Argesilao]

Thanks, I published it. Do those terms when publishing have some affect on me?

What are you referring to?