Celtic unit : Woad raider

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Celtic unit : Woad raider

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Unit description : Woad is a plant found in the British Isles from which a blue pigment can be extracted. Celtic warriors painted themselves with this pigment prior to battle to look more fearsome and unnerve their enemies. Celtic warriors had been raiding more developed areas of Britain and Europe since ancient times. The Scots, for example, were originally Irish raiders who took lands from the Picts in north Britain that became Scotland. When the English sought to conquer the Celts inhabiting Ireland, Wales, and Scotland during the Middle Ages, the Celts were at a great disadvantage against the English mounted knights. The Celts often turned to guerrilla tactics, raiding English settlements and withdrawing before English armies arrived. Raiders painted with woad devastated the borderlands. A renowned woad raider was William Wallace of Scotland who rampaged through Northern England for a decade.
Stats:
Trained at: Barracks
Cost: 4
Hp: 20
Att: 8
Spd: 4
Armor: 1/1
Sight: 4
Spell resist: 70%
Actions: 2
Active effects:
Low morale
Bonuses:
+50% Ranged
+50% light foot melee
+100% Siege machines
+100% Buildings
+120% Armored siege machines
+150% Fortifications
+700% Mega Buildings

A powerful celt who specializes at dominating buildings and siege machines and having the agility and speed that a normal armed soldier doesn't have. Raiding at its finest.
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Affected by warpaint
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Once the celts have 5 or 6 units they should have a separate training building.
Similar to Nordic hall.
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I hope someone could give an opinion or so .
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looks better as an upgrade and we should add a celtic auxiliary type of units
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hmm we still don't have the factory for the celts and what would the auxiliary be?
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you know just like spearman, axeman(not thrower), and archer but celtic style and affected by war paint and maybe renaming him to Celtic woad raider cause many of us dont know what is woad and would think its not close to celts
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Auxiliary is like giving slight military support from allied clans or something so maybe we could also have clan leaders or something to give buffs.
SirPat wrote: Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:09 pm maybe renaming him to Celtic woad raider cause many of us dont know what is woad and would think its not close to celts
Its on the unit description, it is a type of plant that the celts use to be warpaint. Celtic raiders who had woad covered in their bodies were a type of guerrilla of some sort.
A famous woad raider was William Wallace - idk who that is I only found it on google.
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william wallace the scottish freedom fighter he is ingame find him at the map editor
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Yep, I know he looks strong, never used him though.
I mean I haven't researched anything about him except knowing - From google - that he is a Woad raider .
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Woad warriors are brave fighters - and mad. They disdain armour and most cloting, preffering to paint themselves with intricate and stylised magical designs in woad (a blue dye) to deflect enemy blows and missiles.
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A sprite with more warpaint, longer & wider swords etc.
So It may look more barbaric.
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Looks epic but I noticed he dont have bonus vs ligt inf so add that in his dmg would be useless when he dont have that bonus and how far is the low morale aura
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Why would he be useless?
Same as berserker I guess.

Im not completely sure.. mmh i'll just add 50% to light foot melee.
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cause I wouldn't waste both of my attacks to destroy a light infantry unit like a maori warrior or celt he should have just have higher dmg and 1 attack if that happpens IMO and if he can dmg archers better why not light infantry and if he have no melee unit bonuses what unit can he fight heavy foot kills him medium foot can kill him light foot idk but celts can
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I didn't add 1+ dmg since he can get that via warpaint.
I hope this doesn't be op.
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well he's a 4 turn unit, It aint Op wait can he be affected by smiths? if not then good if yes then balancing Time
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a zweihander deals more over all dmg than him cause zweihanders cost 3 turns and attacks 4 units at a time(splash)
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Not really that is compensated by warpaint.
Smith: 2+dmg 2/2+ Armor
Warpaint: 1+dmg 4+Hp
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maybe give him smith armor upgrades lvl 1 not lvl 2
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SirPat wrote: Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:17 am a zweihander deals more over all dmg than him cause zweihanders cost 3 turns and attacks 4 units at a time(splash)
Geez, we shouldn't compare units with different uses.
Maybe woad raider really should have 9 dmg
Or maybe not since he has low morale aura.
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this is a Woad raider with 9 damage with warpaint tech. What do you think?
Trained at: Barracks
Cost: 4
Hp: 24
Att: 10
Spd: 4
Armor: 1/1
Sight: 4
Spell resist: 70%
Actions: 2
Active effects:
Low morale
Bonuses:
+50% Ranged
+50% light foot melee
+100% Siege machines
+100% Buildings
+120% Armored siege machines
+150% Fortifications
+700% Mega Buildings
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yeah thats enough cause thats 10 dmg twice then low morale
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can I compare this to Voulgeir except for the anti mounted
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yet this unit is still stronger cause of speed and low morale and resistance
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Yeah I think so too.
We should just wait a response from endru.
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yeah we should wait.
A charging army of these would be hard to stop I think
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Yeah but they are weak in terms of health, so it can be easily defeated in a few hits or just one by - Poison buddies. I will make a campaign for the celts once I finish with the vikings.
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Maybe just start it over.
Go to first steps.
What is this unit supposed to be?
Beacause all I see is a variation of highlander - both in flavour and stat attempts (except 2 attacks).
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