War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
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War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
This is the beginning of a 1.16 campaign, a tale of a rookie wesnothian officer and the part he, along with those he meets on his way, plays in a war against a new orcish onslaught. (yes I am copypasting the same exact description everywhere, why do you ask...).
You play as loyalists (joined by elves at some point down the line) against mostly orcs and bandits (and at times undead).
Can be played with either 1 or 2 players but the amount of testing I can do is limited for multiplayer (computers are having fits).
It is about half-done, with 26 scenarios out of a planned 30-something (though they are generally relatively short).
It has almost exclusively been tested on normal and the other difficulties are only basic gold changes, thus I advise playing on normal.
I would appreciate feedback on pretty much any part of it, but more specifically on these points:
- The writing (it is wordy at the beginning but should be less so as it goes on), particularly the lines of the shock trooper (Caror). I feel like I am failing at giving him a light "farmboy" kind of voice.
- The difficulty, specifically gold, Easy and Hard, and how doable the campaign is in multiplayer.
Future plans are mostly to finish the campaign and then to maybe modify it to handle the deaths of characters (do some RPG ending slides stuff).
Some general info and thanks:
I have played this game since I was 5, making it pretty much the first videogame I have ever played and one of those I like the most.
If I can give back a little by making a campaign or 2, why not do so.
I have no idea how long my motivation will last, but it has gone on for far more then usual, so let's take that as a good sign.
I hope you'll enjoy it at least as much as I did making it (making the maps and coding the WMl that is, not playtesting... playtesting is hell).
I am probably forgetting something important, either in this post or in the actual add-on but I have been sitting on it for almost a week so at this point it's going out into the wild and I shall deal with whatever I have forgotten when it pops back up.
You play as loyalists (joined by elves at some point down the line) against mostly orcs and bandits (and at times undead).
Can be played with either 1 or 2 players but the amount of testing I can do is limited for multiplayer (computers are having fits).
Changelog
It has almost exclusively been tested on normal and the other difficulties are only basic gold changes, thus I advise playing on normal.
I would appreciate feedback on pretty much any part of it, but more specifically on these points:
- The writing (it is wordy at the beginning but should be less so as it goes on), particularly the lines of the shock trooper (Caror). I feel like I am failing at giving him a light "farmboy" kind of voice.
- The difficulty, specifically gold, Easy and Hard, and how doable the campaign is in multiplayer.
Future plans are mostly to finish the campaign and then to maybe modify it to handle the deaths of characters (do some RPG ending slides stuff).
Some general info and thanks:
I have played this game since I was 5, making it pretty much the first videogame I have ever played and one of those I like the most.
If I can give back a little by making a campaign or 2, why not do so.
I have no idea how long my motivation will last, but it has gone on for far more then usual, so let's take that as a good sign.
I hope you'll enjoy it at least as much as I did making it (making the maps and coding the WMl that is, not playtesting... playtesting is hell).
I am probably forgetting something important, either in this post or in the actual add-on but I have been sitting on it for almost a week so at this point it's going out into the wild and I shall deal with whatever I have forgotten when it pops back up.
Last edited by hopelight on December 18th, 2022, 11:34 pm, edited 16 times in total.
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Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
I played on normal, and found it to be quite difficult, though I had a horrible run of luck. The turn limit in S1 may be a bit low, if you have bad luck (as in can't score a single hit three turns in a row on the stupid bridge) it's going to be nearly impossible to reach the NE leader.
S3 was particularly annoying. One of my leaders got seriously injured and poisoned on turn 1, then my "ally" kept grabbing all the villages so she couldn't heal.
S3 was particularly annoying. One of my leaders got seriously injured and poisoned on turn 1, then my "ally" kept grabbing all the villages so she couldn't heal.
Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
Well, first of all, thanks for having played this stub of a campaign.
For the first scenario, the idea on my end was more to use the bridge as a way to draw most of the enemy away from their leaders while your troops on the left cross the shoals and a few men loop around on the right.
I think I'll look into adding shallow water the whole way on each side of the bridge to make it simpler to cross if someone chooses to.
That being said, that would still probably be a difficult way to push so I am unsure if I want to facilitate it (and it would potentially make it harder to draw them in without getting overwhelmed). I'll have to test it out.
For the third scenario the idea was to have the allied leader concentrate on the north so you should have had villages "free" (not blocked by the AI) in the southern half of the map. I'll test the AI some more to see if it remains in the upper half and potentially add a few villages on the southern side because there might not be enough (and I'll look into whether reducing the number of assassins would be better).
Apart from that, thanks for the feedback and hope you liked it nonetheless!
For the first scenario, the idea on my end was more to use the bridge as a way to draw most of the enemy away from their leaders while your troops on the left cross the shoals and a few men loop around on the right.
I think I'll look into adding shallow water the whole way on each side of the bridge to make it simpler to cross if someone chooses to.
That being said, that would still probably be a difficult way to push so I am unsure if I want to facilitate it (and it would potentially make it harder to draw them in without getting overwhelmed). I'll have to test it out.
For the third scenario the idea was to have the allied leader concentrate on the north so you should have had villages "free" (not blocked by the AI) in the southern half of the map. I'll test the AI some more to see if it remains in the upper half and potentially add a few villages on the southern side because there might not be enough (and I'll look into whether reducing the number of assassins would be better).
Apart from that, thanks for the feedback and hope you liked it nonetheless!
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Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
S1: That's pretty much what I ended up doing, but I thought it was just kind of a fluke since I was also having a run of bad luck in the west. Once I finally got out of the water I only had a few turns left to take out both leaders and their new recruits.hopelight wrote: ↑October 30th, 2021, 11:24 pm Well, first of all, thanks for having played this stub of a campaign.
For the first scenario, the idea on my end was more to use the bridge as a way to draw most of the enemy away from their leaders while your troops on the left cross the shoals and a few men loop around on the right.
I think I'll look into adding shallow water the whole way on each side of the bridge to make it simpler to cross if someone chooses to.
That being said, that would still probably be a difficult way to push so I am unsure if I want to facilitate it (and it would potentially make it harder to draw them in without getting overwhelmed). I'll have to test it out.
For the third scenario the idea was to have the allied leader concentrate on the north so you should have had villages "free" (not blocked by the AI) in the southern half of the map. I'll test the AI some more to see if it remains in the upper half and potentially add a few villages on the southern side because there might not be enough (and I'll look into whether reducing the number of assassins would be better).
Apart from that, thanks for the feedback and hope you liked it nonetheless!
S3: My leader had 1HP left and poisoned at the beginning of turn 2. Not sure how I would head south when there are a bunch of enemies down there. I just tried it out again and had a little better luck (though I really don't care for a scenario where all of my leaders get poisoned on turn 1), as she didn't take as much damage and we actually killed one of the assassins on the first turn. You might want to try a test where you don't attack at all on turn 1 and go easy on turn 2 to simulate how a very short run of bad luck can send this scenario south very quickly (several of your units and your allies poisoned at the same time, and enemies in your territory you have to avoid).
Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
I played on easy and got beat by sc1. I bocked the bridge with one heavy infantry and tried to cross the ford. I almost got across but the green lady rand down to the shore and said something witty and killed my heavy infantry.
You introduce 5 characters at the start, which is prolly too many to identify with. 2 clearly discernable characters is easier to follow.
yours
winkr7
You introduce 5 characters at the start, which is prolly too many to identify with. 2 clearly discernable characters is easier to follow.
yours
winkr7
Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
Thanks for the advice on testing and the clarifications, I see what you mean on the annoyance front, will probably test on reducing the amount of assassins/placing them farther away/maybe replacing some with other unit types.white_haired_uncle wrote: ↑October 31st, 2021, 4:44 pm S3: My leader had 1HP left and poisoned at the beginning of turn 2. Not sure how I would head south when there are a bunch of enemies down there. I just tried it out again and had a little better luck (though I really don't care for a scenario where all of my leaders get poisoned on turn 1), as she didn't take as much damage and we actually killed one of the assassins on the first turn. You might want to try a test where you don't attack at all on turn 1 and go easy on turn 2 to simulate how a very short run of bad luck can send this scenario south very quickly (several of your units and your allies poisoned at the same time, and enemies in your territory you have to avoid).
Thanks for the info on easy and for the "pace" of character introductions. I'll try to see how I could make it more reasonably spread out (though I fear it 's better if the 4 "trainees" remain there) and the generals are secondary characters, so I'll try and work on their intros, maybe reduce it (however, they were mostly meant as "announcers").winkr7 wrote: ↑November 1st, 2021, 2:42 am I played on easy and got beat by sc1. I bocked the bridge with one heavy infantry and tried to cross the ford. I almost got across but the green lady rand down to the shore and said something witty and killed my heavy infantry.
You introduce 5 characters at the start, which is prolly too many to identify with. 2 clearly discernable characters is easier to follow.
Thanks a lot for the feedback!
EDIT: idea that just popped in my head (obviously just after I had closed my browser...): for the character rate, which was also something that had slightly bothered me during planning, adding a smaller intro before the first scenario of the lieutenant and the shock trooper (I honestly know them by their portraits), say, defending their village for 1-2 days (i.e: 6-12 turns) before one of the generals arrive could make the introductions smoother.
Author of War and Home and Knights of the Silver Spire, 1.16 campaigns.
Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
Well, update out (version 0.1.1).
Let's hope it works and solves a few of the existing problems.
EDIT:
Might as well add it on the same post since it's a small update: 0.1.2
Would highly advise reloading at the end of the Road to Lintanir
About 0.1.3 as well:
Spoiler:
EDIT:
Might as well add it on the same post since it's a small update: 0.1.2
Would highly advise reloading at the end of the Road to Lintanir
Spoiler:
Spoiler:
Author of War and Home and Knights of the Silver Spire, 1.16 campaigns.
Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
I'll suppose a "major" update warrants a double post.
Version 0.2.0 is out, adding an intro scenario to spread out the character introductions and there are also two added scenarios after the initial three.
I would appreciate some feedback on it all to help me make it better.
I would particularly like to know about the talking at the end of the 6th (final) scenario whether it might be better to put it in story text.
On a sidenote, I noticed that not specifying any scenario music would mean said scenario is now silent (I thought it would play the default playlist...) so I'll also work on specifying the tracks for each scenario (I already intended to do that, it has just taken on a "greater level of urgency", let's say...).
So, I'll conclude by saying Merry Christmas, seeing as that's basically my present to the community (though seeing the time of posting, I doubt anyone will have the time to play it before the 26th
).
Version 0.2.0 is out, adding an intro scenario to spread out the character introductions and there are also two added scenarios after the initial three.
I would appreciate some feedback on it all to help me make it better.
I would particularly like to know about the talking at the end of the 6th (final) scenario whether it might be better to put it in story text.
On a sidenote, I noticed that not specifying any scenario music would mean said scenario is now silent (I thought it would play the default playlist...) so I'll also work on specifying the tracks for each scenario (I already intended to do that, it has just taken on a "greater level of urgency", let's say...).
So, I'll conclude by saying Merry Christmas, seeing as that's basically my present to the community (though seeing the time of posting, I doubt anyone will have the time to play it before the 26th

Author of War and Home and Knights of the Silver Spire, 1.16 campaigns.
Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
S1
There is no music.
S2
Again, no music.
S3
No music, and probably not doable on hard.
There is no music.
S2
Again, no music.

S3
No music, and probably not doable on hard.
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Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
Thanks for the feedback!
What I meant was the priority has been bumped a few notches up, it's not in yet (I thought at the beginning it would put the default playlist if I didn't specify any or something but I noticed I was mistaken).
I'll look at the replays, try to rebalance it for hard (and in general, if I think it's needed).
Author of War and Home and Knights of the Silver Spire, 1.16 campaigns.
Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
Tried scenario 1 and reloaded it 6 times and always got the peasants being killed. How do you supposed to keep them alive by all those ruffians? Maybe adding one more soldier?
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Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
When I tested it I could reliably win that scenario by sticking the peasants in the forest north for the first turn, letting the two guards soak up the attacks as they're both in castles and on the second turn counter-attack and reduce the number of ruffians enough so that they're no concern on the next enemy turn.
That being said, I'll see about reducing the number of enemy ruffians.
Author of War and Home and Knights of the Silver Spire, 1.16 campaigns.
Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
Okay, with this strategy it worked. ^^
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Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
Well, another update another post.
Version 0.3.0 is out and contains 4 more scenarios, 3 battles and one talk-only.
It also has some slight balancing fixes.
Do tell me if stuff is broken.
Version 0.3.0 is out and contains 4 more scenarios, 3 battles and one talk-only.
It also has some slight balancing fixes.
Do tell me if stuff is broken.
Author of War and Home and Knights of the Silver Spire, 1.16 campaigns.
Re: War and Home - Campaign for 1.16
Let's do the same for the next update.
0.3.5 out now with three more scenarios.
Again, tell me if stuff doesn't work!
EDIT:
0.3.6 out directly after because I put a test scenario as first when you start a new campaign, thus immediately ruining the DnD joke I tried to make with versioning...
0.3.5 out now with three more scenarios.
Again, tell me if stuff doesn't work!
EDIT:
0.3.6 out directly after because I put a test scenario as first when you start a new campaign, thus immediately ruining the DnD joke I tried to make with versioning...
Last edited by hopelight on April 7th, 2022, 7:33 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Author of War and Home and Knights of the Silver Spire, 1.16 campaigns.