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scb
02-21-2006, 01:18 PM
You don't have to read all of these to post, but only comment on the ones you read. The first two units are a revamping of an old concept. I hope I have finally managed to balance it!

Shapeshifter (1ko)
Armor: N/A
Blocking: 0
Movement: 0
Power: 0
Wait: 1
Range: Any enemy unit
Attack Result: You may only select an enemy unit that happens to exist among your out-of-use units. You may not select a dragon unless you have fewer than 10 units counting dead units. The shapeshifter changes entirely into a full-health version of the target without any status changes (i.e. paralyze, wait, armor+30).

Shapestealer (40hp)
Armour: 20
Power: 12 blockable armour-piercing
Range: 1
Movement: 3
Wait: 1
Special: When the shapestealer kills a unit, it transforms into a duplicate of that unit. Its health is at the same % as it was at before transforming. It keeps this special ability (i.e. it turns into a dragon, then it kills a witch and turns into a witch).

Echo (30 hp)
Armor: 0
Blocking: 20
Power: 10 unblockable
Movement: 3 teleport
Wait: 2
Range: 2
Attack Result: In addition to damage, the target loses 10 armour, 20 front blocking and 10 side blocking.
Special Abilities:
1. When an Echo is killed, all allied units take 10 unblockable damage. If any units are killed by this, they are instantly resurrected as full-health Echos. Otherwise, the next allied unit to die is instantly resurrected as a full-health echo.
2. When an Echo is killed and instantly resurrected (by another echo's ability), ability 1 does not activate.
3. When an Echo kills a unit, it is instantly transported to the spot the killed unit was at. This does not occur if something else gets in the way (i.e. an echo returning from death by ability 1).

The idea of the echo was to make something extremely hard to kill. If there is an echo in your setup at the start, it will definitely be the last unit alive.

Dragonrider (58 hp)
Armour: 15
Blocking: 55
Range: 2 LOS
Movement: 3 teleport OR 4 nonteleport
Wait: 2
Power: 26
Attack Result: If the attack is not blocked, the target loses 8 armour in addition to damage. If the attack is blocked, the target loses 20 front blocking, 10 side blocking and 10 armour (but no health).
Special: Takes up two unit slots

The point of this unit is to build up a dragon class - units that take up two unit slots, primarily.

I've written a copy of TacticsArena for my own use. I don't have Internet access all the time I have access to a computer, and I wanted something I can use offline. Also, I can program my own units into my own copy.
The idea for the next unit came from a bug in the program. If, during the move step, the player clicked an empty space ouside the unit's move range, all the spaces the unit could have moved to would turn black and the unit would attack the clicked space. This would be bad for the player who did it (unless the attack killed the enemy cleric or something) because an enemy unit could move anywhere in the black space, then attack anywhere within range of the black space!

Chronos' Gatekeeper (30 hp)
Armour: 0
Blocking: 0
Range: 3
Power: 0
Wait: 2
Attack Result: Creates a square of timegates around the target square:
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OXXXO
OXTXO
OXXXO
OOOOO
T=Target
X=Black space

The black spaces are summoned like shrubs (meaning they don't appear if there is already a unit there). If a unit selects a timegate as an attack target, the attack does not occur. Instead, the unit moves to the selected space, removing the gate and suffering movement wait. The unit may then attack again.

The result of this could easily be a scout jumping all the way across the board, suffering a wait of three and escaping the enemy scout. These spaces can also be effectively used to move a knight, assassin or beast rider around, since they don't have any movement recovery.

scb
11-09-2006, 08:31 PM
No responses since February! I hope nobody minds this bump flood?

Mine
11-09-2006, 08:35 PM
the shapeshifter looks pretty kool =D

Hellblazer
11-09-2006, 10:06 PM
No responses since February!

Lets keep it that way and I'll call Guinness.:p

Kyir
11-10-2006, 05:38 AM
No responses since February! I hope nobody minds this bump flood?

I'd really rather one unit per thread : /

Last Flash
11-10-2006, 06:38 AM
Ok, Suggestion for the shapeshifter/shapestealer i say just forget about the dragon, and let them turn into anything else.

Mmm for the Echo i love it to death nice work man. Yay for the never ending echo of units lol. Although i think the whole 10 damage to your units is a bit harsh. - im still thinking about it

The dragon rider - i'm pretty sure it rides a seperate dragon than the dt when you start out w/ the game. If not i think you should make an ability that lets him mount a dt :) that'd be sweet.

For the Chronos' GateKeeper, i think it can get very tactical. But it is a a turt killer. Alot of turts become helpless vs the opposing unit if it can get on the oppisate side.

Suggestion: make it so Clerics can use it somehow also?

scb
11-10-2006, 02:36 PM
I'd really rather one unit per thread : /

Maybe I should have deleted some of the units when I bumped this thread, but I'll give everyone a chance to see all the units before I start editing. It may have been good that I left them all, since the Shapeshifter is the first one I would have removed.

Higher Plane
11-10-2006, 03:09 PM
i choose to be a frogmanwomen.

scb
11-10-2006, 06:27 PM
Well, you can call yourself whatever you want, but what does that have to do with my units? :confused:
My signature is just as true as "you are what you eat." Hey, do you think I should make the black words visible?

Cross Punisher
11-10-2006, 06:38 PM
yes

add this one "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it"

scb
11-10-2006, 06:43 PM
No, that doesn't fit my philosophy. And truth can exist on many levels - would you believe my pants are grey? You're not going to doubt that, are you?

Cross Punisher
11-10-2006, 06:46 PM
I might depends, try proving to a blind person that your pants are gray though

There is no god higher than truth?

P.S. - Reply to my PM

scb
11-10-2006, 07:04 PM
You're not blind.
"You are what you choose" and "If you speak the truth, people will believe anythign you say" aren't definitely true, so I guess my argument isn't quite valid. However, I do have a very high opinion of truth.
God is not above truth. However, I wouldn't say truth is God. Truth does not choose; God chose what truth would be. But he can't change it now - at least, not on the universal level, as in "my pants were grey at such-and-such a time." My pants (the ones I will be wearing) probably won't be grey tomorrow.