Bone Spider Fun Unit ANSWERED

[Badnorth]

I made this for AoA. Perhaps it can be a fun unit for AoS @Endru1241?

[Badnorth]

Hm, no idea why the image double posted. I can't seem to remove the attachment.

[Hyuhjhih]

You might had put it inline

[Badnorth]

You might had put it inline

I've put it inline because it had doubled. I tried to make it differ.

[Badnorth]

I've deleted the image above. Here's a new one. Mak said it can also be a redesign for a spider in AoF. So it's basically a unit for AoA and AoF i guess, that was brought to AoS.

[Badnorth]

Perhaps is stats will look like this:
Bone Spider
Cost: 4
Trained At: Towns
Req: Spells enabled Games
Hp: 26
Att: 11
Spd: 3
Armor: 4/6
Sight: 2
Damage Bonuses:
None
Passive Effect:
Poison -
The unit will deal the Poison effect on-hit.
Cannibalize -
When the unit kills a Flesh and blood unit, it regains a small amount of health. (I doubt this will be useful with the poison effect but it's still might be good). I made base damage 11 so it can one-shot an un-upgraded spearman and get a small amount of health.
Inconvertible.

I tried to make it's stats have only the things available in the current Assets. I didn't add any Weakening Venom effect or Web Ability. I hope it's fine so it can be easily implemented.

[Endru1241]

You mean as Age of Alder promotion?
Is that unit representative enough?

[Badnorth]

You mean as Age of Alder promotion?
Is that unit representative enough?

AoA Promotion: Kinda? I think this won't be our main promotion unit.
Representative enough: I don't think so, Bone Spider in AoA is a Sub-faction beast unit for the Skeleton King's army. So it's merely just a minion. For our main promotion unit, it'll probably be a demon or a treant. Or just a basic Mech or an Elf. I posted it to be a Fun unit for AoS to have a tiny bit of promotion and to have more fun units. And to simply see this in the game as my chad spider devouring all medieval and ancient units.

Does a promotion unit have to be only one? If so, i'll just discard the idea.

[Endru1241]

For now we only had 3 promotion units and they have few things in common:
- very strong
- represent some other content on the first glance
- pricy


There is not enough to determine if they were supposed to be only one per game.
I'll ask stratego.

[Badnorth]

Yeah, Bone Spider isn't fit to be a promotion unit. But it could work as a Fun Unit i suppose. With the description only of - "For Fun!!".

[Morningwarrior]

Exactly! But I'll never use it, I'm arachnophobic

[Badnorth]

Sure, even though it is just pixels

[Endru1241]

I asked stratego and he's really reluctant towards adding promotion units for non-published games.
Maybe Tie Fighter created some problems with too many e-mails or something.

As for my opinion - I even wondered if not change turtle machine and ornithopter to fun units and try to not bring new too unfitting units, even as fun ones.

[Hyuhjhih]

turtle machine and ornithopter

No way, what about hwacha? Its op too in way but when considering necessity it is balanced. Turtle machine is useful for a compact assault weapon in tight spaces of buildings in end game. Ornithoper is useful in early to mid game as a quick mercenary against ships and heavyweights but is easily counterable.

[Badnorth]

I asked stratego and he's really reluctant towards adding promotion units for non-published games.
Maybe Tie Fighter created some problems with too many e-mails or something.

As for my opinion - I even wondered if not change turtle machine and ornithopter to fun units and try to not bring new too unfitting units, even as fun ones.

Ahh.. That is sad. But Makazuwr32 said that he will also add Bone Spider to AoF as a redesign or a new unit, so isn't it also a promotion unit for AoF too? Kinda?

Change: Well, if that's the case then i have no choice but to discard the idea.

[Endru1241]

Well, bone spider is perfectly withing realm of AoF.
Fantasy is after all a wide topic.
Unfortunately we are a little more tied here.

turtle machine and ornithopter

No way, what about hwacha? Its op too in way but when considering necessity it is balanced. Turtle machine is useful for a compact assault weapon in tight spaces of buildings in end game. Ornithoper is useful in early to mid game as a quick mercenary against ships and heavyweights but is easily counterable.

It was a thought related to realism, not balance.
Both are things which was probably never build and definitely were not used by any armies en masse.
Unlike hwacha.

[Badnorth]

I guess i'll set the topic to answered then.