Order of Oerbrae - SP campaign

[H-Hour]

When a young cleric discovers corruption in the high offices of Vaerya, she must flee her home in the city and seek the protection of a secretive community of smugglers.

Will she elude the Warden's soldiers and find the answers she wants? Her quest will take her to the far coast, beyond the Roaen Wood, as she uncovers the truth about the Order and, maybe, what really happened to her father.

This is a sequal to Betrayal of Thaeylan.

Includes
- 8 scenarios, intermediate level
- Dozens of new units, including a new faction, Pycts, that is inspired by the Scottish Highlands and based on unit art for the Vaeringjar.
- Map of Ardunynn, the land where Order of Oerbrae and Betrayal of Thaeylan are set.

More Info
- Current Release: v1.0.3 for Wesnoth 1.16
- GitHub repository with source code

Spoiler:

[Lord-Knightmare]

I dont see it on the server.

[Lord-Knightmare]

Okay, I see it was a late upload. Starting this on Normal Difficulty.

[H-Hour]

Too quick for me! I was posting the thread before the addon so I could add it to the _server.pbl file.

[Lord-Knightmare]

Hmm...S1...is the Safe House terrain type supposed to heal like a village?

[H-Hour]

Hmm...S1...is the Safe House terrain type supposed to heal like a village?

No, but I can see now that would be very confusing! I've added a couple things to help clarify the behaviour of this scenario and uploaded 1.0.1 to the addons server.

Spoiler:

I've added an objective note.

Your units may move to a safe house, but it will not heal units, provide income, or prevent the enemy from attacking.

And the first time your unit lands on a safe house, Laeka says the following:

We'll find safe houses and a warm welcome in the basin. But we won't be able to heal in these homes.

Thanks for being the first tester.

[Lord-Knightmare]

Here are my first set of replays. This campaign is quite nice and unique.
Nice story map. Not many modders put effort into making one from ground zero.

OERB-Escape from Vaerya replay 20220401-163147.gz

(16.84 KiB) Downloaded 54 times

OERB-The Mire's Edge replay 20220401-165144.gz

(18.21 KiB) Downloaded 50 times

OERB-Roaen Wood replay 20220401-170846.gz

(24.82 KiB) Downloaded 42 times

OERB-Dál Ardhoen replay 20220401-171848.gz

(26.16 KiB) Downloaded 50 times

OERB-Defiance replay 20220401-215258.gz

(31.1 KiB) Downloaded 45 times

It took some time getting used to the new faction and that Loyalists units were not what they looked like. Got fooled by that Javelineer unit
However, it's quite enjoyable so far.

More replays tomorrow.

[H-Hour]

Thanks for the replays! Very helpful and always a pleasure to watch.

Nice story map. Not many modders put effort into making one from ground zero.

I understand why. It took almost as long to make as the rest of the campaign!

Question about one of your replays:

Spoiler:

Did you look at the code to find the alternate escape route in the first scenario? Or just a good guess?

[Lord-Knightmare]

Did you look at the code to find the alternate escape route in the first scenario? Or just a good guess?

I have PhD in Save-reloading. Took me 200 reloads to figure that out

[Lord-Knightmare]

Replays part 2

OERB-The Order-Auto-Save24.gz

(76.93 KiB) Downloaded 41 times

OERB-Hearthmór replay 20220408-052105.gz

(27.98 KiB) Downloaded 42 times

OERB-Cave of a Hundred Mouths replay 20220408-053724.gz

(32.72 KiB) Downloaded 42 times

Overall, the campaign was nice and enjoyable.

I think the only 2 bugs I saw were hero units not having the hero icon and looked identical to loyal units and the final battle scenario produced no replay?

[H-Hour]

Thanks! I'll look into the issue with no replay for the last scenario. Never encountered it before.

Question about tactics:

Spoiler:

You always leveled your Smithy into a Master Smithy, instead of the Na Lasair. Why? I would have thought the addition of a ranged magic attack made the Na Lasair a superior unit in many cases.

[H-Hour]

v1.0.2 is now available. It fixes the issue where no replay was saved for the last scenario.

[Lord-Knightmare]

Question about tactics:

Spoiler:

Oh, that's what happened in the second last scenario. I did get a Na Lasair but in that turn I accidentally got Laeka killed so reloaded and then had the same smithy become a Master Smithy, and then I realised what I did and was like "Okay, next will be a Na Lasair for sure".

[H-Hour]

Spoiler:

Thanks, that makes sense. I'm never quite certain I've got the numbers right for how units are balanced.

[Konrad2]

Played on hard.

Every hero unit is missing the silver crown.

Would you mind allowing Laeka to recruit in SP? I'm pretty sure she'd be able to do so in MP, and in some scenarios it's a bit of a handicap that she can't recruit/recall. (Basically any map with two keeps for my (technically) two leaders.